• Ordination service. Little Ezekiel Missionary Baptist Church, at 16439 Lindsay Road, Tanner, will hold a ordination service at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, for ministers Debra Simmons and Angela McLin, and deacons Roderick Heron and Dale Townsend. Pastor Larry Lockett and the choir of New Hopewell M.B. church will participate. The public is invited. More information: 256-232-6247.

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