Believing that the American evangelical church is losing ground in our culture and must have a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, he hopes to urge Presbyterian churches in particular to remember their great revival heritage, the combination of solid Reformed Theology, evangelistic passion, and the power of the Holy Spirit in conversion and sanctification

PCA Teaching Elder Al Baker, who through the Southern New England Presbytery of the PCA, planted the Christ Community Presbyterian Church, West Hartford, resigned December 31 as Senior Pastor to begin two half-time positions in Birmingham, Alabama.

First, he began January 1 as the Director of the Alabama Church Planting Network (ACPN). His role there is to help with strategic planning in church planting, to promote the ACPN and church planting opportunities to seminary communities and prospective church planters, to partner with ACPN leaders to build momentum in churches, presbyteries, and beyond; and to recruit church planters, to help place them in new church planting contexts, and to travel the state of Alabama to coach, mentor and encourage church planters.

He will visit churches, preaching and teaching when given the opportunity. He will also consult with mother churches as they seek God about starting daughter churches. He will be working closely with the MNA Committees of three Alabama Presbyteries—Providence, Evangel, and Southeast Alabama.

Second, Baker – who has been an Associate Evangelist with Presbyterian Evangelistic Fellowship (PEF) for the past 22 years – will give more time to promote a desire for revival and evangelistic outreach in local congregations throughout the broader Presbyterian family of churches and denominations.

He plans to make several trips each year overseas for revival and evangelistic preaching. He also hopes to restore PEF’s emphasis on evangelistic and revival preaching in local churches which was prominent in the days of Bill Hill, Arnie Maves, Ben Wilkinson and so many other PEF evangelists.

Believing that the American evangelical church is losing ground in our culture and must have a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, he hopes to urge Presbyterian churches in particular to remember their great revival heritage, the combination of solid Reformed Theology, evangelistic passion, and the power of the Holy Spirit in conversion and sanctification.

Moving to Birmingham is going home for Al. He was born there and attended the University of Alabama. He graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary and was ordained at the old Mid-Atlantic Presbytery of the PCA (now known as James River in its reduced geography) and began the Sycamore church plant in Midlothian (a Richmond, VA suburb).

He then moved to work in the growing Perimeter Church Planting network in Atlanta where he served as the church planter at the Christ Church of Marietta.

After seven years in Atlanta, the congregation at the Golden Isles Presbyterian Church at St. Simon’s Island, GA called Al to be their Senior Pastor. He remained there for 10 years where he also helped serve Central Georgia Presbytery’s church planting efforts.

In 2003 he was called out of his deep southern roots to move to Yankee New England and to plant a church in West Hartford, CT. He served there as both Organizing Pastor and Senior Pastor for a total of 8+ years.

It is Al’s plan that soon after his arrival back in Alabama to begin a fifteen minute per day, five days per week radio program in selected cities in the U. S. to challenge believers to seek God for revival. He will continue to travel the U.S. with Henry Krabbendam to lead Days of Revival Prayer in local churches. In addition he has scheduled a number of conferences for 2012 at which he will be preaching.

Al will continue to produce a weekly devotional entitled Forget None of His Benefits. If you are interested in receiving that devotional or get additional information about his new ministries, then you may do so by calling him at 860-748-5918 or reaching him by email [email protected]