It used to be a country church. Now it\u2019s in the middle of the suburbs, on two of the busiest roads in the state.<\/p>\n
Oak Grove Baptist Church sits on Highway 119 near the intersection of U.S. 280. In the eighties it drew attendance of dozens weekly. That\u2019s dwindled. \u201cNow there are more people in the cemetery than the church,\u201d said Rob Langford, who grew up on the other side of the woods behind the church and started walking to attend services at age 11….<\/p>\n
The Rev. John Killian, former pastor of Maytown Baptist Church in Sylvan Springs and former president of the Alabama Baptist Convention, has seen the heyday of the rural church slip away.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what I deal with all the time,\u201d said Killian, now director of missions for Fayette County. \u201cSome of them are barely hanging on. Some seem to be doing okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n That Old-Time Religion: Heyday of the rural church slips away as country church gets swallowed by the suburbs https:\/\/t.co\/FVCudU2P5G<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Kent Faulk (@krfaulk) December 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n