President Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer turned politician who taught Sunday School for decades, died today (Dec. 29), according to The Carter Center. At age 100, he was the country’s oldest living president.
Joy Fenner, a Baptist missionary, Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas leader and the first woman elected as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, died Nov. 29 in Dallas. She was 89.
Tony Campolo, a Baptist minister, author, evangelist and sociologist who spent decades trying to convince evangelicals and other Christians that their faith should motivate them to address social ills like poverty and racism, has died.
Janet Rohde, who served for nearly three decades as a missionary to Guyana, died Sept. 25. Side by side, she and her husband, Paul, shared the gospel and the love of Jesus with hundreds of people over the years.
Over the past few days, Kirk Baptist Church in Piperton, Tennessee, has had to post words they never wanted to post — that their pastor, Bobby Mullins, was killed in a car accident Sept. 4, and his wife, Wanda, died the following day.
Longtime Baptist communicator Floyd Craig died Aug. 30 at the age of 91.
Phil Taylor, a director of missions in Tennessee since 1999, died June 23 after an extended illness. He was 64.
Longtime International Mission Board leader Clyde D. Meador died April 26, 2024. He was 79.
Mandisa, Grammy award-winning Christian music artist, passed away at her home in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday (Apr. 18). She was 47, according to a news release by K-Love radio network. The cause of her death is not yet available.
Funeral services will be held Feb. 21 at 11 a.m. (with visitation starting at 9:30 a.m.) at First Baptist Church Fairhope, Alabama, and a memorial service will take place Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. at New Orleans Seminary.
