Samford University in Birmingham — described by many as Alabama Baptists’ “crown jewel” — will no longer receive annual budget allocations from the Alabama Baptist State Convention (ABSC) after 2017. As of Jan. 1, 2018, the $3-plus million Cooperative Program allotment for Samford will be reduced from Alabama’s CP budget, assuming the request to eliminate […]

Working as part of his church’s disaster relief team, Sonny Ellis died while doing what he did best — serving people. “He was showing the people of Denham Springs, La., an example of what Jesus would do,” said Roy Hill, pastor of First Baptist Church in Satsuma, Ala.. On Sept. 1, Ellis had just placed […]