Birmingham
Landon Byrd is the new pastor of Westmont Church, Minor. He will begin Nov. 1. He previously served as a residence life coordinator at Samford University in Birmingham. He also served at Shades Mountain Church, Vestavia Hills. Byrd holds a bachelor’s degree from Mississippi College in Clinton and a master’s degree from Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham. He and his wife, Lindsey, have two children.
Three Christians were gunned down in one Nigerian state, and funerals were held for 30 individuals massacred in another state.
I love college students. In fact, I’d want to be pastoring in a university town if the Lord called me back to the senior pastorate.
U.S. Navy Chaplain Robert Christian, an alumnus of both New Orleans and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminaries, was recently promoted to the rank of rear admiral (lower half).
The community of Pennington lost the Ebenezer Baptist Church building to a fire overnight. “It’s a total loss,” said Jerry Snowden, who is chair of the church’s deacons.
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