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Originally Posted July 13, 2022

by Robert Baty

One of the staff members of the First Baptist Church of Bay Minette, AL recently visited Kent Hovind’s 145-acre conpound near Lenox, AL and posted glowing messages about the visit on his FaceBook page along with about 35 pictures.

I decided to question the propriety of that. This article is intended to archive my contact and responses.

Link to church FaceBook page

https://www.facebook.com/1201Hand

Link to church website staff page

https://www.fbcbm.com/who-we-are

Link to Ben Lockridge FaceBook page

https://www.facebook.com/benja.lockridge

Following is one of Ben’s posts that caught my attention and one of the images. Since my initial contact, Ben has removed his posts about his visit to Kent Hovind’s 145-acre conpound near Lenox, AL and “locked down” his FaceBook page.

Following is my initial email to Chip Starnes and Ben Lockridge.

As indicated in the above email, the snipped image of Ben’s post that was included was the one referenced preceding my email. The other image snipped is as shown below.

Following are the responses I received from Chip Starnes and Ben Lockridge.

Following is my initial response to Chip Starnes and Ben Lockridge.

Following is an additional response I received from Ben Lockridge.

Following is my further response to Ben Lockridge. At the time of this writing, this was the last correspondence in that exchange.

Update July 14, 2022

Google Street Scene of 1st Baptist Church of Bay Minette

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