Grace Thornton
Writer at The Alabama Baptist
Host of Stories podcast https://t.co/7DDtcB22ia. Blogger at https://t.co/Wdw0U9K9Mm and author of I Don't Wait Anymore. Writer for @alabamabaptist.
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1 week ago |
thealabamabaptist.org | Grace Thornton
Dakota Smith’s story starts in a way that many people in Alabama might find familiar. His grandfather was a Southern Baptist pastor. He grew up in church. And at age 8, he made a decision at Vacation Bible School to follow Jesus. “I had a pretty sheltered home life,” Smith said. But in college, that shelter began to fall apart. As he started his junior year headed toward med school one day, his parents began having serious marital problems. “I got really depressed,” Smith said.
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1 week ago |
thealabamabaptist.org | Grace Thornton
Years ago, Belinda Stroud began to have a burden. “I kept thinking about how the next generation doesn’t understand the Cooperative Program,” said Stroud, a children’s ministry specialist for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. “I just wanted to educate them, and I felt like by educating children we could also educate their parents.”The result was God at Work, a four-week study for kids that brings the CP to life.
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1 week ago |
thealabamabaptist.org | Grace Thornton
If your church is in a spot where preparing a weekly dinner feels like too big a task, First Baptist Church Semmes has an idea they’d recommend. “We have four cooking teams — one for each week,” said church member Sandra Hillman. “My team is the first Wednesday of every month.”Each team has four to six members, and on months with a fifth Wednesday, the men of the church cook. Don’t miss out on our award-winning coverage.
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1 week ago |
thealabamabaptist.org | Grace Thornton
A couple of years ago, Wilson Ramsey got a trailer to move his son’s furniture from Mississippi to Illinois. And when he got back home, he was trying to figure out what to do with it. “Someone suggested, ‘Why don’t you use that trailer to move people and make some money?’ And I said, ‘No, I don’t want to do that; I don’t think that’s what God wants me to do,’” Ramsey said.
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3 weeks ago |
thealabamabaptist.org | Grace Thornton
Alabamians will gather again soon to read through the Bible in conjunction with the National Day of Prayer on May 1. Find information here for your nearest Bible Reading Marathon:Birmingham — May 1, 7 a.m., to May 4, 6 p.m., at First Methodist Church in Trussville. Sign up at tabonline.org/Birmingham-reader. Montgomery — May 1 (read from any location) and May 2-3 (read from the front of the State Capitol Building). Sign up at tabonline.org/Montgomery-reader.
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