This year’s Week of Prayer for International Missions, set for Dec. 3–10, kicks off the season of the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, which this year has a national goal of $200 million and a goal of $12 million for Alabama.
Amid the inevitable trials of life, God still reigns and there is still joy in the Lord, said pastor Jarman Leatherwood in the Nov. 15 convention sermon at the 2023 Alabama Baptist State Convention annual meeting.
Messengers to the 2023 Alabama Baptist State Convention annual meeting adopted the 2024 Cooperative Program budget and heard a variety of reports during the Nov. 14 afternoon session.
Neal Hughes said one of the churches in his association Pike Road Baptist was in despair a while back. It was hard to for them see a vision for the future when, after a rich history, their congregation had declined from 300 to 15.