Pastor B. U. Etuk Departs This Life

Pastor B. U. Etuk Departs This Life

(Faith & Victory : May 1971)


S. E. State, Nigeria (April 5)-Dear Bro. Pruitt, greetings in the Lord's name-Emanuel: I have today sent telegram to you reporting the death of our superintendent of missions, Pastor B. U. Etuk, on April 3 at his hometown-Asana. . . . God called him Home to reap the fruit of his labors. We held funeral and burial services yesterday attended by very many. . . . Pastors J. U. Etuk, M. U. Ekpo, and B. E. Udoka and Evang. S. U. Udo took part in the services and the ministers escorted the corpse to the grave in front of his residence.

He lived for 50 years. He established the church in Nigeria in 1961 and ministered therein for ten years and three months. He had eight children-six sons and two daughters, and they are very young. . . . It is hoped that arrangements will be made to care for the bereaved family. This important man is gone, and he has vacated a place hard to be filled. Pray with us that God would call and qualify one to fill the gap. . . .

Bro. George Hammond is praying to come to our midst. . . I am making arrangements for his stay. . . .I hope to make the allowances to the gospel workers on Saturday with the draft of March 16, and the allowance slip will be mailed to you as in former months.

We are praying for you, and waiting to hear from you soon.

Yours in the precious bond of love,

-Nse B. Umanah, Field Secretary

(Editor's note: On April 8 we were saddened with a telegram from Bro. Umanah of the passing of Pastor B. U. Etuk, the native minister who established the first Church of God mission in Nigeria more than ten years ago. Now there are 20 mission stations and about 30 native gospel workers in that country. A few years ago Bro. Etuk suffered a stroke, from which he never fully recovered. Our sympathy and prayers go out for the bereaved family and the Nigerian church in their loss, but they need not sorrow as those who have no hope. They can meet him again in the realms of Glory. Bro. David Madden, Bro. and Sis. Ostis Wilson, and Bro. and Sis. Cecil Carver had labored with Bro. Etuk in the Nigerian mission field.)

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