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title: "August Community Buzz"
date: 2026-07-29
author: "Laurie Stroud"
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  - name: "More"
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  - name: "Featured"
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# August Community Buzz

Community Buzz

**VBS for ALL AGES!**

[![Westwood senior adults enjoy patriotic vbs week](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Westwood-senior-adults-enjoy-patriotic-vbs-week-168x300.jpeg "Westwood senior adults enjoy patriotic vbs week")](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Westwood-senior-adults-enjoy-patriotic-vbs-week.jpeg) [![Westwood vbs senior activity](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Westwood-vbs-senior-activity-244x300.jpeg "Westwood vbs senior activity")](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Westwood-vbs-senior-activity.jpeg)Westwood Baptist Church in Alabaster recently hosted Senior Adult Vacation Bible School. About 150 senior adults attended for worship, entertainment, activities, crafts and of course snacks. The theme for the week was “In God We Trust” honoring America’s 250th.

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**Kudos!**

[![Total Power Thaxter Pittman completes Birmingham Business Alliance intensive](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Total-Power-Thaxter-Pittman-completes-Birmingham-Business-Alliance-intensive-274x300.jpeg "Total Power Thaxter Pittman completes Birmingham Business Alliance intensive")](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Total-Power-Thaxter-Pittman-completes-Birmingham-Business-Alliance-intensive.jpeg)Congratulations to Thaxter Pittman, owner of Total Power Electric for completing Birmingham Business Alliance’s Small Business intensive. “What an incredible opportunity, and I am truly grateful to have completed this 15-week journey.”

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**Perfect Pitch!**

[![Barons first pitch with Jacky Gann](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Barons-first-pitch-with-Jacky-Gann-224x300.jpg "Barons first pitch with Jacky Gann")](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Barons-first-pitch-with-Jacky-Gann.jpg) [![Gooch Dental's Ashley Good throws first pitch at Barons game](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Gooch-Dentals-Ashley-Good-throws-first-pitch-at-Barons-game-225x300.jpg "Gooch Dental's Ashley Good throws first pitch at Barons game")](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Gooch-Dentals-Ashley-Good-throws-first-pitch-at-Barons-game.jpg)BCF recently hosted two Faith and Family Nights at the Birmingham Barons. Jacky Gann, Director of the Foundry Ministry’s Men’s Program helped us out with a first pitch throw in one game and Ashley Good with Gooch Dental fired off a great first pitch for us at the other. Join us for the final Faith and Family Night of the season [August 14, 2026](https://birminghamchristian.com/event/faith-family-night-with-the-birmingham-barons-5/).

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**I Love America!**

[![I Love America Night](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/I-Love-America-Night-225x300.jpeg "I Love America Night")](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/I-Love-America-Night.jpeg) [![Jimmie Hale at I Love America](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Jimmie-Hale-at-I-Love-America-225x300.jpg "Jimmie Hale at I Love America")](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Jimmie-Hale-at-I-Love-America.jpg)Vestavia Chamber’s I Love America event included lots of exhibitors including our friends Christo’s Confections, the Birmingham Boys Choir and the Jimmie Hale Mission who will also be joining us at the [Celebrate the Family Expo September 12, 2026](https://birminghamchristian.com/expo) at the Hoover Met Finley Center.

[![American Village Fireworks](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/American-Village-Fireworks-225x300.jpg "American Village Fireworks")](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/American-Village-Fireworks.jpg) America’s 250th birthday celebration at American Village in Montevallo included Alabama musicians like The Blind Boys of Alabama and Taylor Hicks, fireworks and so much more.

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**Kaboom!**

[![The Foundry Demo](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/The-Foundry-Demo-225x300.jpg "The Foundry Demo")](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/The-Foundry-Demo.jpg)Great to witness the visible first step Foundry Ministries has taken to clear land on their Bessemer campus to build a new men’s dorm scheduled to open next year.