AL HR146

Commends the Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention on 2023 Advocacy Day at the Capitol.

Recognizes the convention's 156th anniversary in 2023, established in 1867 in Montgomery as the largest and most influential Baptist convention in Alabama with nearly 1,000 churches across numerous associations.

Acknowledges the convention's founding of Selma University in 1878 as a Christian Bible College offering degrees in Christian ministry and Allied Health, and support of American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee.

Honors the convention's mission focusing on evangelism, Christian education, secular education, domestic and foreign missions, and disaster relief for pastors and churches over the past 156 years.