October 11 marked the official relaunch of Selma Baptist Association and Cahaba Baptist Associations together as West Central Baptist Association.
Tom Stacey, who now serves as director of missions for West Central, also was honored Oct. 11 for 25 years as DOM for Selma Association. He took on the leadership of Cahaba Association too in 2016 after the death of DOM, Bill Wallace.
Stacey credits Wallace with the idea for the two associations coming together as one and says he hopes it will serve as a cooperative, unified effort to reach Dallas and Perry counties and part of Lowndes County in a more efficient and effective way. The Selma and Cahaba disaster relief teams will remain separate entities, though they regularly partner together. But as a whole, the 38 churches will partner together for ministry as one newly launched association.
Stacey, who plans to retire in January, says the move with West Central Association is the culmination of three years of meetings and planning, and he hopes everything will be in place for the new DOM to step into the role and lead the association into the next season.
Cahaba Association will also gather for its final individual annual meeting Oct. 19 to celebrate 203 years of what God has done through the association and will continue to do, Stacey said.
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