IN MEMORIAM

Carvalho founded the Good News record label in the 1970s, one of the oldest Christian music labels in his country. He helped in launching the musical career of several noted Brazilian gospel singers, such as Cristina Mel, Paulo Cesar Baruk, Cicero Nogueira, Jusley, Vaninha and Denise Cardoso.

In 2012 he was honored with the

Luiz de Carvalho, who pioneered contemporary Christian music in his native Brazil, died on November 17 after suffering a stroke the previous month. He was 90 years old. Carvalho’s interest in music began in childhood, and, with the support of his father, left home at age 10 to pursue his musical dream. He lived in several cities in São Paulo state and traveled to various parts of Brazil as a musician and bandleader. He became a Baptist convert in 1947 and developed an interest in Christian music, joining the Carlos Gomes Con- servatory the same year. He was youth president for Baptists in the city of Tupa, São Paulo, in the 1940s. He introduced the guitar in worship services in Brazil in the mid-1950s. Carvalho’s first album was recorded in 1955, the second gospel singer to record an album in the South American country. From then on he recorded several others, including the 1983 gold record, “My Tribute – All Glory to God.” In all, he released 40 albums, two DVDs and a book.

One of his more memorable expe- riences was singing to an audience of some 120,000 during a 1965 evangelistic crusade planned by Brazilian Baptists at which then BWA President João Soren, a Brazilian, was the preacher. Carvalho also sang at a number of evangelistic meetings held by Brazilian Nilson Fanini, BWA president from 1995 to 2000.

Promises Trophy for his contribution to Christian music. Carvalho leaves wife, Ernestina, and five children. Funeral service was held on November 20 at Paulistana Baptist Church in São Paulo.

Singing was a passion of his. The

Welsh Male Voice Choir, of which he was a member, won a first place award at the 1993 Roodepoort International Eisteddfod. He received degrees and diplomas from

the University of Natal and the Baptist Union College.

McGee leaves wife, Sheilagh, sons, Colin and Gary, and daughter, Jennifer.

Justus Reeves, executive secretary of Terence McGee, president of the Baptist

Union of South Africa (BUSA) from 1989- 1990, died on September 28. He was 77 years old.

Prior to entering the ordained Christian

ministry, McGee worked as a high school teacher and served as principal of Florence Christian Academy, a mission school in Swaziland. As pastor, he served the Margate Baptist Church on the Natal South Coast and Bap- tist churches in Springs and Lambert Road in Durban, as well as moderated congrega- tions at the Horison, Fynnland and Florida churches.

Beginning in 1975, he was appointed

secretary for Christian Education for BUSA and was, from 1978-2010, editor of the South African Baptist magazine and its successor, Baptists Today. He was a founding member of the

Treverton School Committee and ran the Treverton annual conferences for some 25 years. He founded Church Training Minis- tries in 1991. At the international level, McGee was a

member of the Baptist World Alliance’s Chris- tian Education and Literature Workgroup.

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the Liberia Baptist Missionary and Educa- tional Convention, was airlifted to Ghana from Monrovia in Liberia for medical attention where he died on December 7, in Accra, of kidney failure. Reeves, a native of Liberia, held vari- ous positions in churches and Baptist orga- nizations in the United States before taking up his most recent position with Liberian Baptists in March 2014. His time as the convention’s executive secretary coincided with the outbreak of Ebola in the West African country, and he played a leading role in coordinating the Baptist response to the deadly disease. His previous

positions included director the in of foreign

the US mission

with the Progressive National Baptist Convention, pastor of United Christian Church in

state of Maryland, and

minister of Christian education at Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, DC. Reeves served on the Baptist World

Alliance General Council and on the Commission on Baptist Worship and Spirituality.

He earned degrees and diplomas from

Wesley Theological Seminary in Wash- ington and American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee. Reeves

leaves four sons. Funeral

services will be held on January 1 and 2 in the US.

LUIZ DE CARVALHO

TERENCE MCGEE

JUSTUS REEVES