All conventions or associations, heretofore incorporated under general or special laws or hereafter organized under general laws, shall have perpetual existence, and may hereafter do and perform any and all acts pertaining to the spread and propagation of the gospel, the furtherance of education, and the doing of all acts of charity and benevolence that any unincorporated convention of natural persons shall be permitted lawfully to do under the laws of the state now in force or that may hereafter be enacted.
Ala. Code § 10A-20-4.03 (1975)