Blog Archive

Collegiate Ministries

HBCU’s on Mission

A very small percentage of Southern Baptist missionaries are African American. In 2020, the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board (IMB), one of the world’s largest missionary sending agencies, reported

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Church Planting

Looking Beyond VBS

As I traveled throughout Alabama this month, I saw a great number of signs for vacation Bible school.  After a couple of years of covid and adjustments in church outreach

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News

How Do We Respond?

As Alabama Baptists welcome the overturn of Roe v. Wade, let us be good stewards of our influence in responding with grace, civility and concerted prayer for all. What we

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Discipleship

4 Invitations (Part 3): Follow Me

Mark 1:17 contains this invitation: “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men” (ESV).  Jesus’ invitation is to be extended by those who seek to imitate Him

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Disaster Relief

Living Water in Romania

When the pastor told David Hendon that the church’s well had run dry, he didn’t understand what they meant at first. “My dad was a well driller, but the pastor

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Church Revitalization

Lack of Purpose, Loss of Leaders

We don’t have enough leaders! A church may enter phase 2 of decline when the decline in attendance and/or membership reaches a point where replacing capable leadership becomes difficult, ministries

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