Pastor Daniel Waid said the day after his friend Mike Benefield died, a young girl from Haiti was baptized whom Benefield had been bringing to church through the bus ministry. It’s a testimony of the way Benefield lived his life, Waid said.
Whitlow worked with four WMU executive directors and served as executive director of Baptist Nursing Fellowship during her 36-year career with national WMU.
“Brother Darrell” was senior pastor of Dauphin Way Baptist Church in Mobile in the 1980s and co-pastor of Dayspring Baptist Church in Mobile from 1999 to 2001.