Though they are small in membership and served by bivocational pastors, the churches that make up Lookout Mountain Baptist Association “give like crazy,” according to Lloyd Borden, the association’s director of missions.
More than half of the association’s churches gave once again during the 12th annual benefit concert for Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries (ABCH) held Nov. 5 at Pleasant Valley No. 1 Baptist Church, Gaylesville. This year saw $8,600 collected for the Alabama Baptist foster care and adoption ministry.
DeWitt Cox, music director for the association, helped organize the event featuring musical guests The Partain Family of Fort Payne.
Steve Sellers, church relations manager for ABCH, shared a short message during the event and Ronald Berry, pastor of Pleasant Valley No. 1, said “the whole event was wonderful.”
Borden noted the association also held its October food drive for ABCH and 14 of the association’s 17 churches participated and donated canned and boxed food items, which was donated to the ABCH location in Oxford in mid-November.
“Our churches are very small but … we’re a very giving group. They do it because they have the Spirit of the Lord in them,” Borden said. (Neisha Roberts)
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