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February 10, 2025
Check out these recent headlines, reported by The Baptist Paper.
Former UA campus minister Bennett dies
February 6, 2025
Don Bennett served as Baptist Campus Minister at the University of Alabama from 1981 to 1990. He was also the husband of Mary Sue, who for 16 years served as special assistant to Rick Lance, SBOM executive director.
Former Alabama pastor, senior adult minister Gibson dies at 87
February 6, 2025
James Edward Gibson Jr., who served in ministry in Alabama for nearly 20 years, died Jan. 31. He served at Bethel Baptist Church in Robertsdale from 1990 to 2005 and as senior adult minister for FBC Birmingham from 2005 to 2009.
IMB missionary emeritus William Thomas Espy dies at 87
February 4, 2025
William Thomas “Tom” Espy, an International Mission Board missionary emeritus who shared the gospel in the United Kingdom, died Dec. 13, 2024, in Canton, Georgia.
SEBTS professor, former Brook Hills teaching pastor Shaddix dies
February 1, 2025
Jim Shaddix was a senior professor of preaching at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, and served as pastor of teaching/training at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham from 2012 to 2015.
Tinsley — longtime minister of music, youth, senior adults — dies at 75
January 17, 2025
David Earl Tinsley Sr., who served at First Baptist Church Headland, First Baptist Church Slocomb and Bellwood Baptist Church, died Jan. 12.
Longtime ‘country preacher,’ evangelist Roper dies at 88
January 15, 2025
Emmett Roper, a longtime Alabama Baptist evangelist, died Jan. 11. He was 88. Roper, who called himself “a country preacher,” served in ministry for more than 60 years as a pastor, bivocational pastor, evangelist and author.
Longtime FBC Ashville pastor Sampley dies at 77
December 28, 2024
James Sampley served as pastor of FBC Ashville from 1996 to 2013 and of James Memorial Baptist Church in Gadsden from 1981 to 1987. He also served as pastor of Faith Baptist Church in West Blocton while he was a student at Samford.
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