Longtime International Mission Board leader Clyde D. Meador died April 26, 2024. He was 79.
Meador worked closely with four IMB presidents as a top advisor and executive vice president, and as the mission organization’s interim president from August 2010 to March 2011 and again briefly in 2018 before the election of current president Paul Chitwood.
“I thank God for the life and friendship of Clyde Meador,” Chitwood said. “I first met Clyde when I began serving as an IMB trustee in 2002. Over the following years, I saw Clyde was a leader who had earned the trust of everyone — trustees, administrators and missionaries.”
When Chitwood was elected president in November 2018, he asked trustees’ approval for Meador to remain in the President’s Office as interim executive vice president during the transition. [Read more…]