Longtime international missions leader Clyde Meador dies - IMB
Meador and his wife began their careers with IMB in 1974 when they were appointed as missionaries to Indonesia.
Longtime International Mission Board (IMB) leader Clyde D. Meador died April 26, 2024. He was 79.
Meador, who retired in 2016, 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. He served as interim IMB president briefly again in 2018 before the election of current President Paul Chitwood.
When he retired a second time on June 12, 2020, after more than 45 years of service to Southern Baptists, John Brady, the IMB’s vice president for global engagement, called Meador “the glue” holding the IMB together.