Welcome to the audio digest of this week’s issue of The Alabama Baptist and The Baptist Paper. Each episode features news headlines and feature stories read by TAB Media Group staff and volunteers. New episodes are released weekly on Wednesday mornings. Articles of Interest:
Church connects to community through local college basketball (4:18)
Age no deterrent for 89-year-old church planter (8:18)
Romanian pastor’s prayer answered by Mississippi team (11:55)
Providence Baptist Church, Opelika, will hold a choir reunion concert May 5, part of a celebration in honor of music minister Tom Smith’s 50 years of ministry at the church.
As Alabama legislators continue to debate the future of gambling in the state, the NFL draft offers an opportunity to examine the pervasive influence of gambling in sports, including recent efforts in some states to curtail sports betting.
Amid a growing push to reunite orphans with extended family rather than keep children in residential homes, Kenyan authorities are set to adopt a new program that will phase out traditional orphanages over the next decade.
David Westall is the new administrative pastor at New Hope No. 2 Baptist Church, Cullman.
