After serving 31 years in ministry, Edward Owen Heptinstall Sr. passed away Dec. 22, 2012. He was 78. Born in Anniston, Heptinstall received a bachelor
William Hugo Parkman, a former Southern Baptist missionary from Valley, died Nov. 20, 2012. He was 92. Parkman was born Dec. 11, 1919, in Langdale
Bob Pruitt spent more than 50 years of his life serving Alabama Baptist churches. He died Dec. 18, 2012, at the age of 79. Pruitt,
Former Alabama Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) president Stuart Calvert died Jan. 15. She was 78. Calvert served Alabama WMU as president from 2001 to
Russell D. Wilks sang gospel music throughout his life and loved to lead others in music at church. He died Jan. 10 at the
International Mission Board (IMB) missionary Nancy Turner Norton, 61, died Dec. 5 in Birmingham after a courageous yearlong battle with cancer. Born in Miami, Fla.,
PLANO, Texas — Zig Ziglar, known worldwide for his folksy and often anecdotal motivational talks on success through serving others, died Nov. 28 at a
NANJING, China — K.H. Ting, an Anglican bishop prior to China’s Cultural Revolution who led a “postdenominational” re-emergence of Chinese Christianity in the 1970s and
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