From the West Alabama Newsroom– Judson College in Marion has reached it’s year end fund raising goal. However, the long-term future of the private Baptist College remains uncertain. “We have now surpassed our first goal of a half million dollars in December. And we’re well along the way towards the total goal, including that half million, of $1.5 million.” Judson.
Former state Baptist president, Trussville pastor, dies of COVID-19
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
Posted Dec 28, 2020
The Rev. Dewey Corder died on Christmas. He was a longtime pastor and former president of the state Baptist Convention. (AL.com File photo by Dave Dieter/Huntsville Times)
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He was 80.
Corder was known for “his faithfulness, complete integrity, never changing,” his wife said.
“He was always honest about what he thought about Jesus,” she said. “That was his main thrust: Do you know Jesus?”
Corder was president of the state Baptist Convention from 1992-94, and led some of the discussions with Samford University after the university’s board of directors voted in 1994 to break legal ties with the state convention.