At the First Baptist Church of Phenix City, Alabama, the last Sunday of October 2023 was Pastor Appreciation Day. The church was festive, the service well attended. There was strawberry cake, Pastor ...
Fred “Bubba” Copeland, a 49-year-old husband and father of three, was the mayor of Smiths Station, Alabama, population approximately 5,400. He was also the pastor of First Baptist Church of Phenix ...
F.L. Bubba Copeland, an Alabama mayor and Baptist pastor, died by suicide on Friday, just days after a conservative news site published a story about the pastor’s “secret life” and shared photos of ...
Alabama mayor Buddy Copeland fatally shot himself in front of police. A Smiths Station, Alabama, politician committed suicide after pictures of him dressed as a woman were leaked. Mayor F.L. “Bubba” ...
ARGYLE, Texas — The executive pastor of Cross Timbers church announced his decision to resign, according to a new statement from church elders, less than a month after the resignation of the church’s ...
Another pastor at Cross Timbers Church in Argyle has resigned. In an email sent to congregants this week, elders at the Denton County church said executive pastor Byron Copeland had told them of his ...
SMITHS STATION, Ala. (AP) — After the 2019 suicide of a local teenager, small-town mayor and pastor F.L. “Bubba” Copeland helped students place roadside signs in his Alabama community to try to reach ...
F.L. “Bubba” Copeland, the eastern Alabama mayor who died by suicide after photos of him dressed in women’s clothing were made public, will be buried Thursday. The interment will follow a funeral at ...
SMITHS STATION, Ala. (AP) — After the 2019 suicide of a local teenager, small-town mayor and pastor F.L. “Bubba” Copeland helped students place roadside signs in his Alabama community to try to reach ...