Laurie Stroud
Now Open: Proveer at Grande View
Senior Scene Proveer at Grande View provides the Hoover community with a vibrant, upscale and modern senior living community. The word “proveer” means to provide. With Proveer at Grande View, that is their purpose. The staff at Proveer has dedicated themselves to understanding the needs of seniors who call their community home, the desires of …
Ask Your CPA About How You Can Make a Difference
Education Extra Brought to you by: Community Partner Scholarships for Kids The Scholarships for Kids team are planners that take the responsibility of planning the futures of the students they serve very seriously. The community model of Scholarships for Kids offers students, parents, schools, and taxpayers ‘an in’ on one of the greatest opportunities to …
Called to Lead: Jimmie Hale Mission’s New Executive Director
Mission Makers The Jimmie Hale Mission (JHM) welcomed Perryn Carroll as their new executive director in the fall of 2022. While this was a new position for her, Carroll is no stranger to the Birmingham-based ministry founded in 1944 to share God’s life-changing love with others by serving the homeless. Carroll has served with JHM in …
Business as Mission: The Lions’ Den
Special Feature Are you a business owner interested in learning how you can use your business as a mission to advance God’s Kingdom? What about an investor looking for Kingdom focused investment opportunities? You’re invited to The Lions’ Den event happening on October 13, 2022, at Samford University at 4 p.m. Participants will learn from …
WBL Welcomes Shaunti Feldhahn to Speak on Habits of Happiness
Special Feature You’re invited to join Women Business Leaders (WBL) on October 14, 2022 to learn from Shaunti Feldhahn as she speaks on Habits of Happiness at the Vestavia Country Club. Feldhahn applies her analytical skills to investigate eye-opening, life-changing truths about relationships, both at home and in the workplace. Her groundbreaking research-based books, such …
See You at the Pole “Aflame”
Education Extra See You at the Pole 2022 “Aflame,” the Annual Global Day of Student Prayer, is Wednesday, September 28. All around the globe, in every time zone, millions of students will meet at their school’s flagpole for a time of prayer for the 32nd Annual See You at the Pole (SYATP). SYATP is a …
YBL Hosts Fall Breakfast with the Story of the Real Informant
Special Feature Mark Whitacre, a senior executive with Coca-Cola Consolidated and their T-Factor Company will be in Birmingham to share his stories of life as a former whistleblower working with the FBI in one of the largest corporate espionage cases in history. Mark’s story was the basis for the Matt Daman movie, “The Informant.” Come …
Chief Meteorologist Wes Wyatt: Serving Christ, Serving the Community
Cover Story Wes Wyatt knew he wanted to be a meteorologist when he was just a kid. In fact, he remembers his elementary school teachers saying that they couldn’t get him to pay attention because he was looking out the window watching the weather. “I was fascinated by weather at a young age,” Wyatt said. …
