Just days after baptizing his young daughter Mallory, Shane Hall, the beloved pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, died following a three-year battle with stomach cancer on Friday. He was 46.
“Dear First Southern Church Family …Our dearly loved Pastor Shane passed this afternoon peacefully at home. God has chosen to heal him in an eternal way. Certainly, our prayers, support, and sympathy are extended to Misty, the girls, and the extended family. For us, as a church family, we grieve and seek to understand while we lean on a loving, faithful God,” Joe Sherrer, associate pastor for discipleship at First Southern Baptist, announced in a statement on Facebook Friday night.
Hall’s wife, Misty, who had been sharing updates on her husband’s health, declared in a hope-filled post on Facebook Friday night that “Tonight he is worshipping with Jesus.”
“‘For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.’ Phil 1:21’we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.’ 2 Cor…
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