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Longtime Georgia WMU leader Dorothy Pryor dies at 98

March 15, 2023

Dorothy Marion Pryor a retired executive director of the Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) of Georgia, died March 12. She was 98. Pryor served Georgia

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Retired missionary Bobbye Rankin dies at 78

January 2, 2023

Bobbye Rankin — who spent 23 years along with her husband, Jerry, serving as a Southern Baptist missionary in Asia — died Monday (Jan. 2)

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Longtime Baptist journalist, educator and editor dies at 73

December 23, 2022

Craig Bird, Baptist journalist and educator, died Dec. 12 due to complications from a fall the week before. He was 73. Bird was born Oct.

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IMB missionary emeritus Tim Cearley dies at 68

December 19, 2022

Timothy “Tim” Dane Cearley, an International Mission Board missionary emeritus who shared the gospel in Zimbabwe, Portugal, Mozambique, South Africa and Botswana, died Nov. 5. He

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Dan Busby, longest-serving president of evangelical financial watchdog, dies at 81

September 30, 2022

Dan Busby, who was president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability for more than a decade, has died after a months-long bout with cancer.

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Marilynn Blackaby, wife of ‘Experiencing God’ author Henry Blackaby, dies at 83

September 30, 2022

Marilynn Blackaby, 83, died Thursday (Sept. 29) after a short battle with liver cancer. “Over the last few days, we as her family have wept

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Longtime MO Baptist editor Don Hinkle dies

September 23, 2022

Don Hinkle, the Missouri Pathway’s founding editor, died Thursday (Sept. 22). Known for his colorful bow ties, quick wit and love for journalism, Hinkle, 68,

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John H. Faulkner, former AL pastor and IMB missionary, dies

September 1, 2022

John Hershel Faulkner, retired missionary and pastor, died July 13. He was 87.  Faulkner was a native of Bear Creek, Alabama, where he learned to

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Retired Tennessee Baptist leader James Porch dies at age 81

August 4, 2022

James Porch, who served as executive director of the executive board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention (now Tennessee Baptist Mission Board) for 18 years (1992–2010)

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Longtime Southern Baptist leader Bill Mackey remembered as ‘humble servant’

July 14, 2022

Bill Mackey, a long-tenured and well-respected leader in Baptist life who served in various roles with three different state conventions, died Thursday (July 14) after

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