UPDATE 10:05pm:
Henry Blackaby was found Friday evening after going missing for over 24 hours.
“Henry Blackaby update: He has been found! Doctors are checking him to see if he is OK, but he is safe. THANK YOU for your prayers!,” his son Richard Blackabytweeted around 9 p.m.
Earlier in the day Richard wrote that hundreds of volunteers joined police in their search for his father, who is 78 and a diabetic. Henry’s debit card was used in a city about an hour and half south of their home in Atlanta, he said.
LET US PRAISE GOD!
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Christianity Today is reporting:
Henry Blackaby, founder and president emeritus of Blackaby Ministries International, has been missing since yesterday afternoon.
His son, Richard Blackaby, tweeted this morning, “Please pray. Henry Blackaby has been missing since 4 p.m. Thursday. He is in black Lincoln without his diabetic medicine in Atlanta area.”
Currently, police continue the search for the 78-year-old Blackaby. They traced him within six miles of his home, where his credit card was used. Richard tweeted again this morning, saying, “Henry Blackaby update: As of 12:30 Henry is still missing. Believed in the Atlanta area. Is Type 2 diabetic. No insulin. Please pray.”
CT was unable to reach Blackaby Ministries for further comment.
Blackaby, a longtime Southern Baptist pastor and leader of the North American Mission Board, is best known as the author of Experiencing God, a discipleship workbook that became one of the bestselling Christian books of the 1990s and early 2000s. He lives in Rex, Georgia, along with his wife, Marilynn. His five children also serve in ministry alongside their father. Richard Blackaby is the current president of Blackaby Ministries.
