He found an answer to prayer in Baptist literacy program
CENTER POINT, Ala. (BP)–He’s a planning engineer for Alabama Power’s Miller Steam Plant, with an engineering degree. In his church, he’s the assistant music director and a Sunday school teacher for 9- to 12-year-olds. He serves as treasurer for his son’s athletic booster club and attends softball clinics with his daughter. Who would ever guess […]
NASA retiree to lead emphasis on laypeople
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (BP)--A retired NASA senior manager now is delving into a new frontier of evangelism.
‘He asked me how many Jews I had invited to my church’
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP)--After sensing a call to missions as a teenager at First Baptist Church, Weaver, Ala., it would be 20 years before Dottie Marden discovered her mission field -- the Jewish community.
Judge’s Ten Commandments plaque remains focus of legal battle
GADSDEN, Ala. (BP)--An Alabama circuit court ruled Feb. 10 the Ten Commandments plaque must come down from the courtroom wall of Etowah County Circuit Judge Roy S. Moore. The ruling from Montgomery County Circuit Judge Charles Price came less than a week after Alabama Gov. Fob James unexpectedly told about 450 Baptists and state legislators only "a force of arms" could remove the plaque.
SBC agency reports to WMU recap upcoming restructuring
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP)--Emotional goodbyes and anticipated new beginnings were sounded in the agency reports of the Home Mission Board, Brotherhood Commission and Foreign Mission Board during the annual Woman's Missionary Union executive board meeting that began Jan. 11 in Birmingham, Ala.
