Honors

Grady County Baptist Association in Cairo honored Paul Day, associational missionary, on April 4 for his 50th year in the ministry. A reception was held at First Baptist Cairo. During his ministry Day served churches in Georgia, Kentucky, and Florida for 31 years. He also served almost 15 years as area associational missionary, South Central Area, GBC. After retiring in 1999, Day served as interim pastor at Memorial Church in Cairo before being called as associational missionary for Grady County Baptist Association on July 15, 2002. He and his wife, Carolyn, reside in Cairo.

Richard King was recently honored for 20 years of service as minister to students at Mountain Park First Baptist Church in Atlanta. His anniversary was April 2. He and his wife, Betsy, an elementary school teacher, are parents of one daughter, Joy Helgren, who is a student at Southwestern Seminary. King previously served at Calvary Church in Lilburn. Toby Frost is interim pastor at Mountain Park.

Norma Pugh, widow of R. Quinn Pugh, will receive a posthumous award given in her husband’s honor by the Baptist History and Heritage Society on May 28 in Vancouver, Wash. The Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to Baptist History, which is the group’s highest award, will be presented at the annual meeting at the Northwest Baptist Convention Center.

Pugh served as chair of the Georgia Baptist Historical Commission in 2000-2001. He earlier served on the Heritage and Identity Commission of the Baptist World Alliance and as executive director of the Baptist Convention of New York.

Pugh distinguished himself through mono-dramas in which he portrayed characters from Baptist and biblical history while wearing period costumes.

The Statesboro resident died Feb. 13 following open-heart surgery.

Bryan Noel of First Baptist Woodstock is being placed as a Mission Service Corps missionary of the North American Mission Board. He is assigned as counseling ministry intern at First Baptist Woodstock.