
MacLaren, former CP/stewardship director for SBOM, dies at 79
John MacLaren, longtime pastor and former director of the office of Cooperative Program/stewardship development for the Alabama Baptist State Board

Missions advocate dies at 95, leaves a ‘no regrets’ legacy of being on mission
Missions. It’s a story Marguerite Butler went looking for and once she found it she just couldn’t stop chasing it.

Evangelist, former Alabama Baptist pastor Larry Draper dies at 75
Larry W. Draper, longtime evangelist and former pastor of Roebuck Park Baptist Church, Birmingham, died Aug. 21. He was 75.

Johnny Reese Huey, longtime pastor in Walker Association, dies at 79
Johnny Reese Huey, interim pastor of Barton Chapel Baptist Church, Cordova, died Aug. 11 following heart surgery. He was 79.

FBC Piedmont senior adult director Rhonda Ledbetter dies at 61
Rhonda Ledbetter, director of senior adults at First Baptist Church, Piedmont, died July 31 at the age of 61. A

Former Alabama music and youth minister Raymond Ball dies at 81
Raymond Arnold Ball, a former Alabama Baptist minister of music and youth, died July 17. He was 81. A Mississippi

Roberson, R.F. “Bob”
Former Alabama Baptist pastor, R.F. ‘Bob’ Roberson, dies at 90 R.F. “Bob” Roberson, a former Alabama Baptist pastor, died June

State, international missions advocate Ann Cushing dies at 88
Ann Claire Weed Cushing, wife of retired state missionary Harrell Cushing, died June 12. She was 88. A Florida native,