Stories tagged with: alabama baptist state convention

• 'Fruitful' ministry is focus of Alabama convention meeting

  by The Alabama Baptist Staff, posted Tuesday, November 19, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  Photo courtesy of The Alabama Baptist

  DAPHNE, Ala. (BP) -- Every four years messengers to the Alabama Baptist State Convention have traveled to the milder climate of south Alabama to worship, fellowship and conduct business.

  Temperatures, however, dropped to record lows during the Nov. 12-13 sessions at Eastern Shore Baptist Church in Daphne on Mobile Bay. The meeting nevertheless remained "Fruitful," in a theme centered on John 15:5. Read More

• Ala. Baptists spotlight CP, Samford relationship

  by Alabama Baptist staff, posted Tuesday, November 28, 2017 (6 years ago)

  

  Photo by Maggie Walsh/courtesy of The Alabama Baptist

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (BP) -- For several years, the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM) has been leading the Alabama Baptist State Convention (ABSC) to move its budget toward a 50–50 split of funds with Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministry causes. What started out as a gradual goal was accomplished this year as Samford University in Birmingham withdrew from state convention funding, freeing up $3.5 million.

  With that in mind, messengers to the annual meeting Nov. 14-15 at Whitesburg Baptist Church, Huntsville, Ala., unanimously approved a $37 million budget for 2018 -- $3 million less than the current year's $40 million budget to be more in line with current giving receipts. Read More

• Samford considers pro-LGBT student group

  by David Roach, posted Monday, May 01, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- A recommendation by Samford University's faculty to approve a pro-homosexual student group could have "serious implications ... for the relationship" between the university and the Alabama Baptist State Convention, according to a joint statement by the convention's president and the executive director of its State Board of Missions.

  Samford President Andrew Westmoreland told faculty in an April 28 email he hopes the university and state convention leaders "find meaningful ways to affirm beliefs regarding the authority of Scripture held by so many of us, while enabling us to ... Read More

• Ala. Baptists approve office relocation

  by The Alabama Baptist staff, posted Tuesday, November 22, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

  Photo by Neisha Roberts

  PELL CITY, Ala. (BP) -- Approving the relocation of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions' office and a flat $40 million Cooperative Program budget for 2017 topped business items addressed by messengers during their state convention annual meeting Nov. 15–16.

  Messengers also unanimously elected John Thweatt, pastor of First Baptist Church in Pell City, as president and adopted five resolutions, four of them related to social and religious issues. The convention theme for the 194th annual meeting was "Sent … Here, There and Everywhere." Read More

• Ala. Baptists continue move toward parity

  by Grace Thornton, Jennifer Davis Rash & Bob Terry/The Alabama Baptist, posted Friday, November 20, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Neisha Roberts

  DAPHNE, Ala. (BP) -- Messengers to the Alabama Baptist State Convention annual meeting approved a 2016 Cooperative Program budget that brought state and national ministry allocations closer to parity. They also adopted a new offering aimed at helping fund Baptist missions work in state and expanded the role of the State Board of Missions executive committee. Read More

• Ala. Baptists affirm BF&M 2000

  by Jennifer Davis Rash/Alabama Baptist, posted Monday, November 17, 2014 (9 years ago)

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Budgetary adjustments, the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 and three contested state convention officer races captured headlines for the annual meeting of the Alabama Baptist State Convention at Lakeside Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 11–12. Read More