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Kevin Garrett is the new pastor of First Church, Atmore. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Jacksonville State University and holds a master of divinity from New Orleans Seminary. Garrett is currently working toward a doctor of ministry from New Orleans Seminary. He previously served as pastor of Cove Creek Church, Glencoe. Garrett and his wife, Tina, have two children.
If you have a rising high school senior, you likely already have a long to-do list. Deadlines for graduation, yearbook, portraits and all the accompanying fees come quickly.
What do you suppose it would be like to have Jesus as your older half-brother? To grow up in the same family as the Son of God? To have a senior sibling who is incapable of sin, who leads a perfect life?
The idea was so uncomfortable at first. Emma Kate Taylor didn’t even know if it would work. “I didn’t want to be seen as weird,” she said.
It’s not something you see every day — even at an airport. A routine security screening at Alabama’s Gulf Shores International Airport led to the recovery of five stolen Civil War-era cannonballs hidden in a passenger’s checked suitcase.
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