Harbin, longtime Mount Ararat pastor, dies at 79
Edward Harbin served as pastor of Mount Ararat Baptist Church in Woodville for 46 years.
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Former UA campus minister Bennett dies
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
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
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
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
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
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.