Notable Christian Leaders Who Died in 2025

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(L-R) John MacArthur preaching at Grace Community Church on July 11, 2024. Screengrab via YouTube / Grace to You; Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Kay Arthur screengrab via Instagram / kay.arthur; Voddie Baucham speaking at New Saint Andrews College. Screengrab via YouTube / New Saint Andrews College

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Dr, Voddie Baucham Jr.

On Thursday, Sept. 25, Founders Ministries informed the public that Voddie Baucham Jr. died earlier that day after “suffering an emergency medical incident.”

In 1993, Baucham founded Voddie Baucham Ministries. He planted and pastored Grace Family Baptist in Houston before serving for nine years as the dean of theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia.

Baucham was also a best-selling author and a founding faculty member of the Institute of Public Theology.

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Baucham held degrees from Houston Baptist University (BA in Christianity/BA in Sociology), Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (D.Min.), with additional post-graduate study at the University of Oxford, England (Regent’s Park College).

In February 2021, Baucham experienced “full-blown heart failure.” Baucham had successful heart surgery in March 2021.

In November 2022, Baucham announced that he and his family were returning to the states and later was announced as the founding president of the newly established Founders Seminary.

Baucham leaves behind his wife, nine children, and many grandchildren.

Read the full article: Voddie Baucham Dies at the Age of 56

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Jesse T. Jackson
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