In Memoriam

Born in Plymouth, England, Bullen

migrated to Brantford in the province of Ontario, Canada, with his parents in 1924. He was ordained to the Christian

Saw Tamla

president of the Self Supporting Kayin Baptist Mission Society (SSKBMS) in Myanmar, died on January 3. He was 68 years old. After ministerial training at the Home

Mission Bible School in Yangon, capital of Myanmar, Tamla served as pastor of the local village Baptist church in Thay Nwe Khee in a remote area in Kyaukyi Township. From 1969 to 1979, he was assistant

pastor of the Phado Self Supporting Kayin Baptist Church, becoming senior pastor in 1980. Tamla served SSKBMS in a number of

capacities, including as youth president, chairman of the Minister’s Council, and president of the Phado Area Churches. He was elected SSKBMS president in 2002 and served in that position until the time of his death. Despite failing health, he led the

planning and organization of the Centennial Celebrations of SSKBMS that was hosted at the church he pastored in Phado in April 2012. Thousands gathered for the event. Tamla was also actively involved in

the Myanmar Council of Churches and hosted the 84th

of the ecumenical church body in Phado in June 2012. He is survived by his wife, Thramu Naw Lah Eh, and 11 children.

Annual General meeting Justice Anderson

noted Baptist missiologist, died on Decem-ber 29, 2012, of a heart attack. He was 83 years old. Anderson taught for 27 years at Baptist

Southwestern

Ralph Frederick Bevan Bullen,

general secretary-treasurer of the

Canadian Baptist Federation (CBF) for 22 years, died on January 19. He was 92 years old.

Theological

Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, in the United States, including 20 years as director of the seminary’s World Missions Center, which he helped found in 1980. Anderson and his wife were to Argentina from 1959-

missionaries

74, during which time he was professor of church history

and homiletics at

the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Buenos Aires. He also served as president of the Argentine Baptist Mission in 1965 and 1972; vice president

ministry in 1941, and pastored Baptist churches in Sault Ste. Marie, St. Catharines and Brantford before being elected general secretary-treasurer of the CBF. The federation merged with Canadian Baptist International Ministries to form Canadian Baptist Ministries in 1995. Bullen served the Baptist World

Alliance® in a number of capacities, including as a member of the General Council,

the Executive Committee, the

Committee on Relief and Development, the Commission

on Evangelism and

Mission and the Commission on Christian Ethics. Bullen was active in the Canadian

Council of Churches and was awarded the Knight Great Band for the Humane Order of African Redemption in recognition of leadership in World Relief Projects. He earned degrees from McMaster

University and other institutions of higher learning. “Fred was a long-time supporter and

friend of McMaster Divinity College, and was one of those responsible for instigating our Baptist Heritage Room,” said Stanley Porter, president of McMaster Divinity College. Bullen was predeceased by his wife

of 62 years, Ruth, in 2003. He leaves a daughter, Jane, and a son, John. Funeral services were held at First Baptist Church, Brantford, on January 25.

of the Evangelical Baptist Convention of Argentina, 1962 and 1965; and interim president of the seminary from 1968-69. After their return to the US, he served in

several pastorates and interim pastorates in the states of Texas, Oklahoma and Connecticut before taking up his post at Southwestern. After retiring from Southwestern

in 1998, Anderson taught classes as an adjunct professor at Dallas Baptist University, Truett Theological Seminary and the B.H. Carroll Theological Institute. Anderson is a former member of the

Baptist World Alliance® Commission on Baptist Heritage and Identity, the World Evangelization Workgroup,

and the

Evangelism and Mission Workgroup. He earned degrees from Baylor

University in Texas and Southwestern seminary, and is the author of several books in English and Spanish, including An Evangelical Saga: Baptists and their Precursors in Latin America, published in 2005. He leaves wife, Mary Ann; sons,

Timothy and Brad; and daughters, Sandi and Suzie. Funeral services were held January 2

at Agape Baptist Church in Fort Worth, with interment at New Baden Cemetery.

Zachariah ‘Zac’ Patnaik

of Kolkata, India, a vice president of the Baptist World Alliance® from 2000-2005, died on February

2 in the state of California in the United States after a long illness. He was 72 years old. Patnaik served the BWA in a number

of capacities, including as a member of the General Council, the Executive Committee, Committee,

the Budget Promotion Committee, and Finance

Committee, the Membership Committee, the

the Officers Search and

Development and the Commission on

Baptist Heritage and Identity. Patnaik represented the BWA on a number of occasions,

including touring

disaster zones in the state of Gujarat after an earthquake affected India in January 2001, killing approximately 20,000 persons. He owned and operated Automatic

Controls, a manufacturing business and Evangelical Literature Depot, a publishing and printing operation. Patnaik’s printing

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