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Revitalizing Our Association
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By Allan Eakin, Associate Editor
During the 2021 local associational season, members of the Baptist Trumpet team visited several local associations to share about the ministry of the Baptist Trumpet. For most, those fall meetings were the first following the COVID-19 pandemic. Not gathering for approximately two years seemed to have had a negative effect on many local associations. The pandemic was not the problem but only exposed an already underlying problem — a declining involvement ...
Born in the BMA
By Dr. Steve Crawley, Executive Director • Ministers Resource Services
Years ago, some creative guys in our work created a parody of Bruce Springsteen’s song “Born in the USA,” replacing the well-known lyrics with “Born in the BMA!” Such was the case for me.
My grandfather, Verner Crawley, was present at the 1950 ABA Annual meeting in Lakeland, Fla. Disagreements between the brethren at...