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Pastor Alley stressed building a church in which the congregants feel a sense of belonging and Christian love. In 1973, after a brief illness kept him homebound for a few Sundays, Reverend Alley realized the need for televised church services. Shortly afterward, the church launched its television ministry through station KALB in Alexandria. During his tenure at Calvary Baptist Church, Reverend Alley was instrumental in moving the church building from its location at the corner of Bolton Avenue and Jackson Street to its present location on Jackson Street Extension. He believed that the future of the congregation depended on a shift to focus on young couples and children. A state-of-the-art facility was built to further that mission.<ref name=obit/>

Pastor Alley stressed building a church in which the congregants feel a sense of belonging and Christian love. In 1973, after a brief illness kept him homebound for a few Sundays, Reverend Alley realized the need for televised church services. Shortly afterward, the church launched its television ministry through station KALB in Alexandria. During his tenure at Calvary Baptist Church, Reverend Alley was instrumental in moving the church building from its location at the corner of Bolton Avenue and Jackson Street to its present location on Jackson Street Extension. He believed that the future of the congregation depended on a shift to focus on young couples and children. A state-of-the-art facility was built to further that mission.<ref name=obit/>

In 1997, the Reverend Alley participated in a committee of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, based in Alexandria, to select a consensus choice as president of the body. The convention settled on [[Robert E. Anderson|Robert E. "Brother Bob" Anderson]], the pastor emeritus of Parkview Baptist Church in [[Baton Rouge]], who came to heal political wounds that had divided the Baptists for a number of years into politically [[conservative]] and "moderate" wings. Alley said that he believed the Baptists were "slowly but surely dissipating our strength and not giving our best energies to winning the lost in Louisiana but to politics in the convention." He noted that recent baptism statistics were down in each church involved in the state convention conflict.<ref name=bpnews/>  

In 1997, the Reverend Alley participated in a committee of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, based in Alexandria, to select a consensus choice as president of the body. The convention settled on [[Robert E. Anderson|Robert E. "Brother Bob" Anderson]], the pastor emeritus of Parkview Baptist Church in [[Baton Rouge]], who came to heal political wounds that had divided the Baptists for a number of years into politically [[conservative]] and "moderate" wings. Alley said that he believed the Baptists were "slowly but surely dissipating our strength and not giving our best energies to winning the lost in Louisiana but to politics in the convention." He noted that recent baptism statistics were down in each church involved in the state convention conflict.<ref name=bpnews/>