SBOM honored by BCA
The State Board of Missions received eight awards – four 1st place awards, one 2nd place award, and three 3rd place awards – during the Baptist Communicators Association’s Wilmer C. […]
Software programs can help keep your church organized
Churches have a lot to keep up with. Membership rosters, giving records, church accounts — the list goes on and on. How does your church organize everything? Do you have […]
Vacation Bible School impacts many lives, continues to win children to Christ
Mechell Bice says she doesn’t remember the name of the man who prayed with her in 1977, but she does remember his face. She was 7 and attending Vacation Bible […]
Church Weekday Education Leadership Training
The State Board of Missions will host church weekday education (CWE) leadership training on May 3-4 at Shocco Springs Conference Center. The event, sponsored by the Office of LeaderCare & […]
Eldridge warns against ‘tyranny of convenience’ in Christian walk
Modern life is all about convenience — instant food, instant communication, instant entertainment; the list could go on. But according to David Eldridge, pastor of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church, Birmingham, […]
Morton emphasizes importance of commitment to prayer
More than 500 people gathered in the sanctuary at Dawson Memorial Baptist Church, Birmingham, on Feb. 26 to hear Jeremy Morton, co-pastor of First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Georgia, preach on […]
Calming presence: There’s a ‘place for everyone’ in local, national disaster relief efforts
Cookie Garner Baker says she could tell a tornado was coming. The sky looked strange as she helped an older lady get in her car and head home from her […]
Meyers Warns Pastors of Temptation of Imitation, Substitution, Exhaustion
What does it really mean to do evangelism? To have a strategy? What does it really mean to use the community, the people group, the demographic to purposefully share the […]
Quinn urges pastors to prepare their churches to carry out God’s ‘game plan’ for them
Jesus has a game plan for every church.” That was the encouragement Russ Quinn gave at the 2019 Alabama Baptist State Evangelism Conference held at Dawson Memorial Baptist Church, Birmingham, […]
How Have You Been Dressing Lately?
Last week, I attended a ceremony and reception dedicating a statue in honor of a former dean of the College of Education at Troy University, Dr. James Kimbrough. He has […]
