This book provides insights to church, association and convention leaders concerned for the future-for the effectiveness of the organizational health to carry out the Great Commission of Jesus Christ. The author desire is to assist leaders of each of these entities in understanding its organizational history in order to diagnose unhealthy issues and bring about renewed vitality. The revitalization of the association can be the starting point for African-American Baptist church and convention sustaining growth numerically, financially and spiritually. Leaders will discover how to restore...

If the church is to experience racial reconciliation it must be committed to the leadership of the Holy Spirit. This book is a call for racial reconciliation. It tells the story of race relations shrouded in church program activities, church planting and convention resolutions that cannot and has not changed the hearts of people. Our country and churches are as divided today as ever before.Most of the accounts presented in this book are personal experiences and observations in ministry for over 26 years in Alabama Baptist life but not exclusive. It is a story told for all the people of God...