
Resources to Help Your Church Thrive: January 2023 Blog Post
ARC loves partnering with organizations that share our passion for equipping the local church. Our Resource Partners are businesses and ministries that can help you...
Resources to Help Your Church Thrive: October 2022 Blog Post
ARC loves partnering with organizations that share our passion for equipping the local church. Our Resource Partners are businesses and ministries that can help you...
Resources to Help Your Church Thrive: September 2022 Blog Post
ARC loves partnering with organizations that share our passion for equipping the local church. Our Resource Partners are businesses and ministries that can help you...
Resources to Help Your Church Thrive: June 2022 Blog Post
At ARC, we believe in not doing ministry alone. We have some great ministry partners that we work together with. These are men and women...
Church Planter and Community Leader Blog Post
I was with the newly elected mayor of Laurel on election night when a reporter asked him, “So, how do you feel now that you...
ARC’s First Church Plants Celebrate 20 Years of Ministry | Church of the Highlands Blog Post
In May of 2000, Chris and Tammy Hodges, along with their five children, made their way through eight cities, visiting each as a potential home for their new church. Birmingham was their last stop. On his way to an early game at the SEC baseball tournament, Chris grabbed coffee at a local Barnes & Noble. With a view that overlooked the Cahaba Valley ahead and the busy highway down below, Chris heard the Lord say, “You’re going to pastor some of the people down in that traffic jam.” He began to feel a supernatural love for the city and its people, and that’s when he knew. He skipped the game and instead began to make his way throughout Birmingham, praying as he drove down the streets of the city he would soon call home.

Mental Health and the Church Blog Post
We’re amid a mental health crisis. Hurting people would like to be able to run to the Church and know they will be understood and welcomed. My vision is that the Church will not only welcome and understand them, but also be equipped to help them.

The Church Never Closes Blog Post
We sat down with Dino Rizzo to talk about the issues and challenges facing our world today. What is the Church’s role, how do we respond, and where do we go from here? Pastor Dino shares his heart for how the Church is continuing to move forward, and how the vision of ARC has never been more important.
