Rev. Bryant Wardell Raines | Screenshot: Facebook/New Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church
Shockwaves of grief are still rippling through the black Baptist community in Georgia after Rev. Bryant Wardell Raines, a prominent local activist and leader of the New Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in Macon, died last Wednesday from COVID-19 complications.
In his announcement of Raines’ death, Rev. Anthony Q. Corbett Sr., president of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, an affiliate of the National Baptist Convention, said the late pastor had recently become the president of the convention’s sixth district.
“Your prayers and well wishes are requested for his wife, Sister Ilashia Raines along with their family, and the congregation of New Pilgrim Baptist Church,” Corbett said.
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Rev. Bryant Wardell Raines, the 44-year-old pastor at New Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in Macon, has died Author: Thais Ackerman (13WMAZ) Updated: 11:05 AM EST February 25, 2021
MACON, Ga. The Macon community has lost an activist and a church is without its pastor after his death Wednesday.
Rev. Bryant Wardell Raines was the pastor at New Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in Macon.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones says Raines died at a hospital in Gainesville, Florida, on Wednesday. As many families and lives have been affected by COVID-19, so too have ours, the post said.
According to New Pilgrim s website, Raines was a 1995 graduate of Central High School and 1999 graduate of Clark Atlanta University.
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