Former Mobile-area pastor dies at 88

January 26, 2024

“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.

Pastor, church planter Victor Bonner dies at 85

January 23, 2024

Victor Bonner, a longtime pastor and church planter in Alabama, Mississippi and North Carolina, died Dec. 29. He was 85.

Former Montgomery pastor Hayden Center dies at 87

January 23, 2024

Hayden Darwin Center Sr., 87, former pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in Montgomery and a number of other churches in the Southeast, died Jan. 17.

Former IMB missionary Tom Sutton dies at 92

January 19, 2024

Horace Thomas “Tom” Sutton, who served as an International Mission Board missionary in Latin America for 25 years, died Jan. 13.

Retired pastor Mel Deason dies at 88

January 10, 2024

Mel Deason, a retired pastor who served a number of churches in Alabama, died Jan. 8. He was 88.

Retired minister had ‘ringside seat’ to ‘awesome work of God’ during 44-year ministry

January 10, 2024

Tim Lacey has retired after serving as minister of music and senior adults at First Baptist Church Winfield for 27 years and a total of 44 years of ministering through music in Southern Baptist churches.

Longtime Birmingham community ministries leader dies

January 10, 2024

Larry Brent Earnest, 77, died Dec. 19, 2023. A native of Greenwood, Mississippi, he held a bachelor’s degree in religious education from Mississippi College and