Tornado Damage of January 23

In light of the destruction from the January 23 tornadoes near Birmingham, we have the following report:

• All of our Alabama CBF churches that have reported back to us have no damage.

• We are partnering with VOA Southeast for connections to volunteer efforts and providing information for supplies needed and locations for service.

• There is an immediate need for gatorade, cleaning supplies, large black trash bags, and canned good with pop-tops (so they can be opened without can openers). THEY DO NOT NEED WATER at this time. They can be taken to: 
  Christian Service Mission
  3600 3rd Ave South
  Birmingham
  (additional locations to be listed soon) 

• They are also in need of contractors.

• If you are interested or available to help, please contact Terri Byrd at Terri@alabamacbf.org. 

• The number one need for the next few weeks will be financial donations as we work with VOA Southeast to clear lots. You can send money marked "tornado disaster relief" to ALCBF, PO Box 919, Madison, AL, 35758. 

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Winter 2012
Fall 2011 

Response to the AL Immigration Law

I want to offer what I feel is a personal thought. My own Baptist theology does not allow for me to believe that I truly speak for everyone who is a part of Alabama CBF. Baptists are people of great freedom and diversity; and that soul freedom is at the heart of what we stand for. So I am speaking for me when I say that the law before our state regarding immigration seems to be out of character with what I believe best for us; certainly as a state, but especially as the church. ALCBF has always been serious about ministries of hospitality and shelter to those who are strangers and in need. As an individual, I have expressed my opposition to the bill through petition and email. I would encourage those of you opposed to do the same.

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New Church Construction Needs

Heflin, AL
Three years ago a tornado swept through Heflin, Alabama, destroying homes and felling dozens of pines on property belonging to Les Jones' family. Les is the founding pastor of a new CBF church in Heflin named Heritage Baptist Church. Those trees, after a great labor of love were turned into 25,000 board feet of lumber cut to build the new church's first building. Ground-breaking was held earlier, the plans are drawn, and the site is being prepared to build!

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Like a Good Neighbor?

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- We live in the South where we like our tea sweet, our talk slow and our religion hot. We pride ourselves on being neighborly.

We practice hospitality and compassion with our neighbors. If someone is sick we take them food, if their house is destroyed we help them rebuild. We even wave at complete strangers we pass on country roads as a sign of our neighborliness.

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