Returning once again to Eastmont Baptist Church, Montgomery, the Alabama Baptist State Convention annual meeting will take place Nov. 15–16 with the theme “Sent … Here, There and Everywhere.”
“Alabama Baptists are privileged to be back … at Eastmont Baptist,” said Rick Lance, Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM) executive director. “[The church] has hosted the State Convention and other meetings previously and is superb at doing so.”
Three on a String will be the musical guest for the Tuesday evening session and Robert Smith, professor of Christian preaching at Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, will bring the message. Other sessions will be led in worship by Mitch Loftin, worship pastor for First Baptist Church, Prattville; Ed Cleveland, associate minister of music for First Baptist Church, Montgomery; and Lance Maddox, worship pastor for Eastmont Baptist. Alabama Singing Men and Women will be featured on Tuesday and Frank Jones of Frank Jones Ministries will be the annual meeting pianist.
Theme interpretation
Two theme interpretation messages will be given during the meeting with one coming from Kevin Blackwell, executive director of Samford’s Ministry Training Institute and assistant to the president for church relations. Within Blackwell’s message there will be testimonies from Daniel Atkins, Jennifer Foster, Terrence Jones and Blake Newsome.
Ryan Whitley, pastor of CrossPoint Church, Trussville, will provide the second theme interpretation and will include testimonies from Gary Buchanan, Orlando Buck, Charles Carter and Blake Kersey.
“We hope churches from across the state will send messengers for our annual Alabama Baptist family reunion,” Lance said. “There is a great lineup of speakers and worship leaders who will call us to corporate praise during times of inspiration and worship.”
The president’s sermon by Travis Coleman Jr., pastor of First Baptist Church, Prattville, will be on Tuesday morning and Greg Corbin, pastor of Lakeside Baptist Church, Birmingham, will present the convention sermon on Wednesday morning.
The theme, according to Lance, “reminds us that we are to go into all the world, all the time, at the same time. From the standpoint of missiology, Acts 1:8 is a simultaneous not sequential mandate, and the convention theme reflects that.” (Neisha Roberts)
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