Stories tagged with: jim slack

• Jim Slack's 'Hello World!' now heard in eternity

  by Art Toalston, posted Monday, November 19, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

  BP file photo.

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- "Hello World!" was Jim Slack's enthusiastic greeting to coworkers and his exclamation whenever he learned something new.

  His "Hello World!" also reached the ends of the earth.

  An unassuming man always in good humor, Slack became one of Southern Baptists' most influential missiologists during a 50-year career with the International Mission Board.

  He died Nov. 15 at age 80 in Richmond, Va. Read More

• WORLDVIEW: Mission revolutionary Jim Slack

  by Erich Bridges, posted Wednesday, July 15, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- How can God use one faithful life to change the world?

  Consider Jim Slack, 77.

  He retired from the International Mission Board in June after 50 years as a missionary, missiologist, strategist, researcher, ethnographer, teacher -- and passionate advocate for unreached peoples, especially oral learners who need God's Word in forms they can understand. Read More