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.
Franklin Lee Kirksey, former pastor of churches in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina, died Sept. 11. He was 64.
A Pakistani Christian was fatally shot for rebuffing the advances of a male neighbor.
A Ugandan man was hospitalized for a week after his adult sons attacked and beat him for putting his faith in Jesus Christ.
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