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09/24/2026

If God Says It He WILL Do It!

What has God said that you have a hard time believing? What is keeping you from following Him whole-heartedly?

We are called to stop relying on our own strength and put our trust in the Lord and His Promises.

Proverbs 3:5-6 | Isaiah 41:10

09/19/2026

Janice Mason had just lost her husband of 21 years when
Hurricane Sally rolled into the Alabama Gulf Coast in 2020. She
and her daughter sat up through the night listening to the wind
batter the house.

“I’m thinking the roof is fixing to come off any second,” she said. “I
was wondering if I was going to live through the night.”

But she did, and the next day, an Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief
volunteer found her standing in the yard still processing the storm.
“It was her talking to me and praying with me that got me through
it and got me moving again,” Janice said.

She looked at the volunteer’s ABDR shirt and said, “I’m going to do
that too.”

Fast forward to 2026, and Janice bumped into someone who
looked familiar — the same volunteer she had met in the yard that
day when she couldn’t wrap her head around what she had lived
through.

This time, both were deployed to help those affected by Winter
Storm Fern in the Mississippi Delta.

“It’s all God,” Janice said. “It’s all about what you’re doing for
others. They see it, we feel it, and God blesses it.”

• Pray for Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers to
have wisdom and endurance as they go out to serve those
surrounded by tragedy and devastation.

• Pray for God to raise up more people to serve as volunteers.

• Pray for God to comfort those affected by storms and use ABDR
volunteers to share the hope He offers.

09/18/2026

Southside Baptist Church in Monroeville wasn’t sure how much
longer it could keep going. “They knew they were headed in the wrong direction and needed to change,” said Steve Dunn, associational missionary for Bethlehem Baptist Association.

Turning to the State Board of Missions for help, Dunn and State
Missionary Rob Jackson began walking alongside the church
to start a new vision. Then they hit an unexpected obstacle, and
things got more difficult. A key leader in the church passed away.
“That took the wind out of their sails,” Steve said.

But leaning on the Lord and the support of partners, the church
started to walk forward again. At that point, their pastor realized it
was time to retire. Steve continued to walk alongside the church as
their coach and connected them with a new pastor, Stephen Smith,
whom he had been mentoring.

In Stephen’s first year, Steve connected Southside to an
evangelism strategy from the State Board, and they went from 25
to 50 in attendance and began renovating their building.

“I think a lot of churches get discouraged, and I think they need
to realize that perspective can change — just start,” he said. “The
support and partnership are key.”

• Pray for the SBOM’s church revitalization team as they help
churches find and follow a new vision for the future.

• Pray for Southside to continue to grow and be a light in its
community.

• Pray for more churches to see the need for a revitalization
journey.

09/17/2026

Brian Williams says there’s not much going on in rural Alaska in
the summers to engage kids with the Gospel. That’s why Brian
— a pastor in the Copper Center area — had a vision for starting a
baseball camp ministry.

There was just one missing piece — all the equipment.
But Scotty Goldman, director of the State Board’s Office of Global
Missions, said God already had a plan for that. Around the same
time, someone from a city league athletics group in Alabama called
him and said they had a huge amount of surplus equipment —
especially for baseball. He connected with Brian, and Brian said it
wasn’t long before big boxes started arriving.

“God really provided,” Brian said.

Scotty says Brian’s vision for engaging rural areas is part of the next
season of Alabama Baptists’ partnership with Alaska Baptists. Funds
from the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering help with that
in a variety of ways, including covering the shipping costs for the
baseball equipment.

Investments like this are “long lasting and have eternal impact,”
Scotty said.

• Pray for Brian Williams and other pastors in Alaska as they seek to
reach even the most remote parts of Alaska with the Gospel.

• Pray for the Alabama Baptist churches who are partnering with
churches in Alaska to continue to strengthen those partnerships
and send teams to serve there.

• Pray for God to provide resources for the work in Alaska to
continue to expand into rural and hard-to-reach areas.

09/16/2026

Two years ago, Theron Hawkins got an unexpected call — Danny
Wiggins was seeing more and more Haitians attend his church,
County Line Baptist in Coffee County.

Danny knew they could use a church in their heart language. That’s
how Theron got the call — he knew Haitian Creole from his time
planting churches in North Carolina.

“Eager to answer this call, I detailed the resources and support we
would need to establish a new congregation,” said Theron, pastor
of Next Level Church in Tuscaloosa. “With the generous backing
and gifts of County Line Baptist Church, the Alabama Baptist
State Board of Missions, and the Myers-Mallory State Missions
Offering and Cooperative Program, we secured a meeting space in
Enterprise that became the first home for our new church.”

Every week, he and his wife made the trek from Tuscaloosa to
Enterprise, and the church — New Life Haitian Baptist — grew from
a handful meeting for Bible study to more than 100 in six months. They eventually found a bigger location in Dadeville, and now
they’re looking toward planting another Haitian congregation in
Dothan.

“We have witnessed God’s hand at work, transforming lives and
bringing hope to many,” Theron said.

• Pray for Theron Hawkins as he continues to lead New Life
Haitian Baptist Church and plans to start another church soon.

• Pray for God to continue to draw Haitians to faith in Christ.

• Pray for God to raise up more planters to start new churches
across the state.