Alabama Baptist Convention Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Affiliations== The Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions promotes evangelism and discipleship in Alabama, develops church leadership, assists in the foundation of new churches and funds state-level, national and global missions including a newspaper, Christian schools, children's aid programs, retirement centers and so on.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url = http://www.alsbom.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=36469&PID=388982 |title = Ministries |publisher = Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions |accessdate = 2010-08-26 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100906141537/http://www.alsbom.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=36469&PID=388982 |archivedate = 2010-09-06 |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web |url = http://www.alsbom.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=36469&PID=610160 |title = State Convention Entity Ministries |publisher = Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions |accessdate = 2010-08-26 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100906141748/http://www.alsbom.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=36469&PID=610160 |archivedate = 2010-09-06 |url-status = dead }}</ref> The ABSC is supported by the Cooperative Program, where affiliated Baptist churches in Alabama donate a part of their revenues to the ABSC.<ref name=":2">{{cite web |url = http://www.alsbom.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=36469&PID=608181 |title = Who We Are |publisher = Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions |accessdate = 2010-08-26 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100906141738/http://www.alsbom.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=36469&PID=608181 |archivedate = 2010-09-06 |url-status = dead }}</ref> The ABSC partners with the [[Southern Baptist Convention|Southern/Great Commission Baptists]] and provides funding and other forms of support to the national organization. There have been questions about the relationship. In summer of 2007 Russ Bush, academic dean of the [[Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary]] in [[Wake Forest, North Carolina]] proposed that churches should write separate checks to the ABSC and the SBC rather than have the ABSC decide how funds were to be allocated.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://thealabamabaptist.org/print-edition-article-detail.php?id_art=12429&pricat_art=10 |title = Dissident Voices Cannot Change the Facts |author = Bob Terry |date = August 27, 2009 |newspaper = The Alabama Baptist |accessdate = 2010-08-25 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091118123401/http://thealabamabaptist.org/print-edition-article-detail.php?id_art=12429&pricat_art=10 |archive-date = 2009-11-18 |url-status = dead }}</ref> As of 2000 there were 3,148 congregations in Alabama associated with the national convention, with 1,380,121 adherents.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/reports/state/01_2000.asp |title=State Membership Report: Alabama |publisher=The Association of Religion Data Archives |accessdate=2010-08-25| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100829192301/http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/reports/state/01_2000.asp| archivedate= 29 August 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> ABSC President [[Jimmy Jackson (pastor)|Jimmy Jackson]] was a candidate to become President of the SBC in June 2010. If elected, he would have been the second Alabama Baptist pastor to serve as SBC president. Jonathan Haralson was the first to fill that role, serving as SBC President from 1889 to 1898.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gofbw.com/news.asp?ID=11627 |title=Jackson joins SBC president ballot |date=Apr 23, 2010 |work=Florida Baptist Witness |accessdate=2010-08-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307100041/http://www.gofbw.com/news.asp?ID=11627 |archivedate=2012-03-07 }}</ref> In the event, [[Bryant Wright]] of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in [[Marietta, Georgia]] was elected.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/5244/53/ |title=Suburban Atlanta pastor Bryant Wright elected SBC president |author=Jennifer Davis Rash |date=June 16, 2010 |work=Associated Baptist Press |accessdate=2010-08-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619081334/http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/5244/53 |archivedate=2010-06-19 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page