Harry Reeder (1948-2023)

by Jon Payne May 23, 2023

Dear Friends,

It has been an extremely difficult week for GRN Council Members, friends, family, and the wider church after the sudden loss of our dear friend, Rev. Dr. Harry L Reeder III. His lionhearted preaching, engaging teaching, and loving pastoral heart will be deeply missed. Tributes to his life have been pouring out all over the world, and there will be more to come.

Briarwood Presbyterian Church has scheduled the Celebration of Life Service for 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 24th. It will be live-streamed on Facebook and at briarwood.org/livestream.

You can read his obituary here: https://obits.al.com/us/obituaries/birmingham/name/harry-reeder-obituary?pid=204545873. In lieu of flowers, the Reeder family requests that gifts be made to the Harry Reeder Scholarship Fund at Birmingham Theological Seminary or the Harry Reeder Memorial Fund at the National Christian Foundation or Westminster Theological Seminary [Philadelphia].

Please continue to pray for Cindy, the entire Reeder family, the Briarwood Church family, and all who mourn this great loss. We thank God that what Harry faithfully proclaimed by faith, he now gloriously beholds by sight.

Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb! (Rev. 7:10)

In the Sure Hope of the Gospel,

Rev. Jon D. Payne

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Jon Payne

Rev. Jon D. Payne is senior pastor of Christ Church Presbyterian (PCA) in Charleston, South Carolina. He planted Christ Church in 2013. Before moving to Charleston, Rev. Payne was senior pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Douglasville, Georgia from 2003-2013. Rev. Payne has served in the role of executive coordinator of the Gospel Reformation Network since 2015. In addition, he is the founding director of the Oxford Church Planting Institute, a division of Westminster Seminary UK in Oxford, England. Rev. Payne also serves as chairman of the Heidelberger Society, a Reformed and confessional church planting effort in Germany. He has preached and served the cause of mission in over twenty countries. Rev. Payne is series co-editor (with Joel Beeke) of, and contributor to, the Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Reformation Heritage Books), and author/editor of numerous articles, chapters, and books including John Owen on the Lord’s Supper (Banner of Truth), In the Splendor of Holiness: Rediscovering the Beauty of Reformed Worship for the 21st Century (Tolle Lege; trans. into nine languages), A Faith Worth Teaching: The Heidelberg Catechism’s Enduring Heritage (RHB), and A Faith Worth Defending: The Synod of Dort’s Enduring Heritage (RHB). Rev. Payne is a regular contributor to TableTalk magazine. He and his wife, Marla, have been married for 27 years and have two children in college.

Harry Reeder (1948-2023)

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