AL HR5

Recognizes Friendship Missionary Baptist Church of Mobile, Alabama for hosting the Southwest District State Convention of the Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention on June 23-26, 2014.

Notes the National Baptist Convention, USA, founded November 22, 1880, in Montgomery with 151 individuals from 11 states, with current national president Dr. Julius R. Scruggs of Alabama.

Identifies Dr. Vernon Swift of Tuscaloosa as Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention President and Reverend W.C. McNeil as Southwest District President.

Recognizes the National Baptist Convention, USA as the largest Black Baptist Convention with more than 7.5 million members across churches, district associations, and state conventions.

Directs that a copy of the resolution be provided to Senior Pastor John F. Payne, Sr., Doctor of Ministry for presentation.