The Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions promotes evangelism and discipleship in Alabama, develops church leadership, assists in the foundation of new churches and funds state-level, national and global missions including a newspaper, Christian schools, children's aid programs, retirement centers and so on.

For the first few years, its members were primarily delegations from Baptist missionary societies, reflecting the frontier nature of the Alabama territory at the time.

Prominent members of the convention in the early years included Hosea Holcombe, Alexander Travis, James McLemore, Dempsey Winborne, Sion Blythe, Charles Crow, A. G. McCrow, and Joseph Ryan.

At the ABSC's tenth annual session, in 1833, which was held at Grant's Creek Church in Tuscaloosa County, the convention resolved to found an educational institution, to be called the Manual Labor Seminary.

Resolved, That our duty at this crisis requires us to demand from the proper authorities in all those bodies to whose funds we have contributed, or with whom we have in any way been connected, the distinct, explicit, avowal that slaveholders are eligible, and entitled, equally with non-slaveholders, to all the privileges and immunities of their several unions; and especially to receive any agency, mission, or other appointment, which may run within the scope of their operation or duties.[8]Rev.

The ASBC did admit women delegates in 1913, years before they received the right to vote through the national amendment to the constitution.

[6][14] In 1972 the convention elected its first woman vice-president, Miriam Jackson, then dean of women at Jacksonville State University and recording secretary for the Alabama Baptist Executive Board.

In 1874, the ABC passed a resolution at this church to establish an educational institute for blacks called Selma University.

In 1956 the Christian Life Commission of the ABC described the first black student of the University of Alabama as a "seeming tool of the NAACP" and said it could not view the policy of forced integration as "the will of God for our state in 1956".

[17] In 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to adopt a resolution renouncing its racist roots and apologizing for its past defense of slavery.

"[20] The Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions promotes evangelism and discipleship in Alabama, develops church leadership, assists in the foundation of new churches and funds state-level, national and global missions including a newspaper, Christian schools, children's aid programs, retirement centers and so on.

[23] In the event, Bryant Wright of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia was elected.

The newspaper is based in Birmingham, Alabama[25] The Judson Female Institute was established by members of Siloam Baptist Church of Marion, opening on January 7, 1839.

[26][27][28] Samford University was founded by the Alabama Baptists in 1841 as Howard College in Marion and moved to Birmingham in 1887.

[31] The Alabama Baptist State Convention agreed in 1959 to build and operate a college in Mobile if the community provided sufficient funds, which was achieved.