BIRMINGHAM
Melanie Sanford recently announced her retirement from Hunter Street Church, Hoover, after serving for more than 20 years as preschool minister. Her family came to Hunter Street in 1995 when she began serving as the Weekday Education program director. Sanford and her husband, Bill, have two children and one grandchild. Buddy Gray is pastor.
There is a troubling silence surrounding the recent disruption of a Sunday worship service at a church in Minnesota. That silence deserves scrutiny, not because of the personalities involved, but because of the principle at stake.
Fun note — I get to share with an assembly of students at my alma mater, Phil Campbell High School, in a few weeks.
Wesley Dickmann’s life changed in a “miracle year for me,” said the 82-year-old artist and minister.
After a winter storm swept across north Mississippi in late January — at the same time a tornado and straight-line winds affected south Alabama — Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief teams are hard at work.
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