Company Directors, an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a member of the Australasian Compliance Institute. “Trevor’s faith formed the foundation of his life and his character was deeply shaped by values of self-giving service, generosity of spirit and gentle, faithful love,” said Andrew Woff, head of the Pastoral Leadership Support and Development team at the BUV. Spicer leaves wife, Jenny.

Dakota, in the United States, after a short time in hospice care. He was 95. Prior to being ABCUSA president, he was vice president from 1960-61; president of the National Baptist Youth Fellowship from 1944-46; president and chair for the Board of Managers, Board of Education and Publication; and chair of the Committee of Seventeen, which studied and made recommendations for theological education in ABCUSA.

He served the Baptist World Alliance in several capacities, including on its Executive Committee, the Youth Committee, the Long Range Planning Committee, the Memorial Committee, the Promotion and Development Committee, the Church

Health and Ursula Geldbach, a medical doctor with

a commitment to social medicine, died on August 18, in Marburg, Germany, at 78 years old.

Geldbach and her husband, Erich, a theologian and church historian, have had longstanding involvement with the Baptist World Alliance. She was a member of the BWA Commission on Christian Ethics and the Baptist World Aid Committee, while he served on various other committees and commissions of the BWA. A former head of Bergsträßer District

Health Office, she was noted for her collegial leadership and for going beyond her administrative duties, getting close to the people her office served, including those in more remote locations.

Geldbach studied medicine in Marburg and Erlangen, and became involved in social medical services in 1972. Beginning in 1985, she worked as health department head for the provincial government in Darmstadt until her retirement in 1998. She leaves husband, Erich, and sons, Jan

and Jorn.

Effectiveness Workgroup, the Mission and Evangelism Workgroup and the Commission on Baptist Worship and Spirituality. In the early years of the World Council of Churches, he was a member of its Youth Committee. In 1948, he was the youth representative of ABCUSA to the foundational meeting of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Fredrikson was an advocate for the church renewal movement nationally and was influential in Renovare, a national renewal organization.

He headed the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Ottawa University in Kansas, in the United States, from 1949-54, before becoming pastor at First Baptist Church in Ottawa. He served as pastor of First Baptist Church in Sioux Falls, in South Dakota, in the US, beginning in 1959 until 1975, and became pastor of First Baptist Church in Wichita, Kansas, where he remained until he retired in 1988.

Fredrikson was deeply concerned about social justice issues such as juvenile justice reform. During 1966-67, he chaired the Minnehaha County Citizens’ Committee on Problems of Youth, during which time the county voted to build a Juvenile Court Center, and was active in working at the Minnehaha County Juvenile Detention Center. He helped to found Glory House, a halfway house initiative for men leaving prison, and was active in serving mental health and alcohol treatment centers in the area including the Carroll Institute for chemically dependent persons.

Canadian by birth, Fredrikson earned degrees and diplomas from Ottawa University, Andover-Newton Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Sioux Falls, Ottawa University in the state of Kansas, and Judson College in Illinois, in the US.

In 1989, Fredrikson received the Luke

Mowbray Ecumenical Award from ABCUSA. He was predeceased by wife, Ruth, in

Roger Fredrikson, president of American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) from 1970 to 1971, died June 16 in Sioux Falls, South

2003. A memorial service was held June 24 at First Baptist Church, Sioux Falls.

E. Edward Jones, Sr., president of the National Baptist Convention of America (NBCA) from 1985-2003, died on June 9, in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the United States. He was 85 years old.

Jones was actively engaged in the Civil Rights Movement after he met Martin Luther King, Jr., shortly after Jones became pastor of Galilee Baptist Church in Shreveport, in the late 1950s. King spoke at Galilee in 1959 and 1962 and inspired Jones into joining the Civil Rights Movement.

Jones spearheaded the desegregation of the Caddo Parish School District in Shreveport and envisioned ways to assist the black community through healthcare, education and housing. The relocation and rebuilding of Galilee Baptist Church on approximately 40 acres in the heart of Shreveport, the creation of what came to be known as “Galilee City,” helped to revitalize the city’s downtown area. Galilee City comprises the church; offices for NBCA; a 76-unit apartment complex for low- and middle-income working residents; housing developments for the elderly and handicapped; a recreational complex for youth that includes sports facilities, a computer lab and an educational program; and a health center.

In 1996, he led NBCA to join with four

other predominantly African American religious groups to start Revelation America, a company that offers

African American

consumers greater access to a variety of goods and services, including home mortgages, life insurance, automobile insurance, food products and durable goods. Under Jones’ leadership, NBCA expanded international mission and created its own printing service and the Christian Education Congress, which covers teaching and training. Term limits of NBCA leaders were also introduced.

He was a longstanding member of the General Council of the Baptist World Alliance and was named to the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Governor’s Commission on Race Relations and Civil Rights, the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and the Grambling State University Foundation.

He held degrees from Grambling State University in Louisiana and Bishop College in Texas.

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