As Cindy stated below, we are sad to announce that Jack passed away at 5:30am. The entire Cooperative Baptist Fellowship family mourns the passing of Jack Snell while celebrating his life's work as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are grateful for his faithful service, humble leadership and unparalleled commitment to being the presence of Christ. Information on services will be updated at www.thefellowship.info/Landing/JackSnell.icm.
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God bless you Anita, Charley, Stephanie and Henry.
With infinite prayers,
Beverly Connell
Peace at last.
Love, Julie and Bill Mason
Anita Stephanie and Charlie, Our love is with you. I wish I could be there, but at least my heart is.
Tina ( and Jonathan)
Anita and family,
Our thoughts and prayers go with you throughout the coming days.
Nancy and Norman Shaheen
and Sibyl Mason
Anita, Stephanie, and Charlie,
We love you. Indeed we are grieving with you.
love,
Katie and Matt
Anita and family,
Our loss is heaven's gain! We will all miss Jack, but anticipate that glorious reunion one day!
Tommy and Susan Deal
Dear Anita and Family,
Claire and I send along our regards to you and the family. I have been thinking about you all in the past days and weeks, knowing the journey was probably getting tough, knowing you were tougher.
We thank you for the investment that you and Jack placed in us during our time with CBF. Know you will be in our prayers in the days, months and years to come. Blessings,
Brian and Claire McAtee
I love you Uncle Jack and will miss you terribly.
Dear Anita, Stephanie and Henry and Charley,
God has finally called your beloved into His glorious presence.
Our sympathy is with you and our prayers continue for the following days. May God continue to surround you with His arms of love, and know many,many,many people care and love you.
Psallos,
Bruce Pafford
Dear Anita,
We all are praying for you and your children as you go though this day.
I love you all...
Deborah and Dave Whittle (and family)
We only met Jack this past December when he came to speak to our church on global missions. What a great experience! He was the kind of person who moved you the first time you met him. Thanks Jack for all you did and the seeds you planted. Our sympathy and prayers go out to the whole family.
Colonial Avenue Baptist
Roanoke, Virginia
Dear Anita, Charley, Stephanie & Henry and all of your family,
God answered our prayers and heavens arms are opened wide to receive Dr. Jack. We love you and pray today will bring you some rest and peace.
Love,
Chuck & Sheryl
I had the priviledge of knowing Jack beacause of my wife, Yvonne. What a wonderful man and the memories are treasures. He made me feel welcome in his house of worship and his home. God bless him and welcome him and be with the family.
Dear Anita & Family,
Know that we are thinking of you, and sharing in your loss. Only one person I ever knew, could be as caring and kind, and loving and strong, Dr. Jack.
Love,
Frankie & Sue
Dearest Snell Family
YOU ARE LOVED!!! While there is a emptiness in our inner circle, the gates of heaven welcomed a precious servant today!! May God wrap His loving arms around you in these days. We love you!!!!
Hugh and Tammy Patterson
Godspeed, dear friend. Well done, good and faithful servant to us all.
Dean and Karr La Dickens
Anita, Charley, Stephanie, Henry,
Rick and family: We grieve that this good man has left us, but know
he's in the best hands he's ever been in - the hands of the Lord.
We pray that the good Lord will wrap His loving arms around each of
you and see you thru the days ahead, as he has seen you thru these past days. "Christians never say goodby forever, they only say
until we meet again."
We are so very sorry to miss Jack's service at HAB. We've had
an appointment to be in Indiana
for over a year. We'll be thinking of you all on Saturday and beyond.
We send our love
and a hug for each of you.
Lee & Dianne Turner
Rarely does one meet somebody like Jack who spread so many seeds of love. The seeds were cast far and wide, and we will see the crop grow for generations to come. Peace.
BWH
Dear Anita and Family,
May God continue to carry you in the deepest places that are tender . . . as he continues to carry Jack. God gave us so many wonderful gifts through Jack - gifts that will last.
Love,
Joy
San Francisco
Anita, Charley, Stephanie and Henry,
Know you are in our thoughts and prayers...
Much love-
Jordan and Anne England
Anita, Charlie and Stephanie: I know this has been a difficult journey for all of you, with some surprising blessings mixed in. All of us who have been deeply loved and profoundly influenced by Jack share your mourning and celebration. We were blessed by Jack's and your examples of courage and grace during the past months. We love you so much.
Greg Warner and family
Our prayers are with you Anita, Charlie, Stephanie, and Henry as well as with all who knew and were touched by Jack.
May we praise God that he has finally come face to face with the Lord that he loved so much and served so loyally.
Grace and Peace,
Kevin and Andrea Collison
Jack,
Just leave me a little room in the backyard of your mansion for me to build my mud hut and I'll be happy.
Until then,
Bruce
Anita and children, what a wonderful example Jack has been in his life, and in his death. He's finally free of his painful illness, but his sharing his trial has been a inspiration of faith to so many. We rejoice with you in the knowledge that he's already where we long to be, but shed tears with you in the absence of his encouraging presence. You're in our prayers. You have our love and admiration.
Ted and Judy Haney
You are all in our thoughts and prayers. We loved Jack and love you too. Mary, Bruce, Brady, Connor and Skylar Wynn
Jack's faith and courage will be a lasting goal for us to attain also. By his example, it will be somewhat easier for us all.
He may not be in our physical presence but the fond, fond memories will last forever.
Love to all who loved him and still do.
Carole and Herman
Anita, Charlie, Stephanie and Henry,
May God's love and peace be with you in the coming days. Jack touched so many people and he will be missed. His imprint is felt around the world. I will never forget the path he started me on to God's redeeming love and grace more than 25 years ago. You all are very special people to me and my family.
Lots of love to you all,
Florence Camp Allen
Anita & Family,
I am so sad to hear of your loss of dear Jack, your stefast companion of these forty-five years. Thank you for sharing him with us, not only over this great span, but especially in these last months, through the wonderful vehicle of this blog.
Love,
Joel Hitt
The Snell Family:
Please know that I along with my fellow B.G.E.A. associates are thinking of you and praying for you at this time of such great loss and sorrow.
Let us somehow rejoice for a life well lived, and remember Jack as one who served so faithfully.
I sincerely appreciate the testimony of his faithful life; one that he lived and we witnessed all the way til his last breath was taken here on this earth.
Jack mentored me in ways he nor I realized at the time, and for that I'll always be thankful.
I was privileded to call Jack my Pastor, my friend, my mentor, and most importantly my brother in Christ.
Prayerful Thoughts & Blessings,
Stan Lambert
Anita; Please know we are thinking of you and praying for you during this time. May you find comfort in your memories and peace in your faith.
Tammy & Ralph Stocks
In honor of Dr. Snell's lifelong embrace of ecumenism, I thought it appropriate to share this:
I went to visit a Muslim mosque this past week in order to share a meal and conversation with them about our different faiths and their holy month of Ramadan. In talking with a fellow at the mosque about salvation and the afterlife, he told me that Muslims believe there are only three things that are left behind after you die, a sort of "afterlife on earth." The first is the values you have instilled in your children. The second is the churches you've planted. And the third is the lives you have touched. I found it so amazing how the words of my Muslim friend, without him even knowing it, gave me comfort and assurance in dealing with the grief of Dr. Snell's passing. Because Dr. Snell has instilled his values in his own two marvelously gifted children, he has led and ministered to innumerable churches, and he has touched thousands upon thousands of lives in the course of his life - Dr. Snell's legacy lives on in each of us that were honored to call him friend, pastor, mentor, and brother.
Shawn Warner
Dear Antia and Snell's family
My heart is sad, but my spirit always enlighten by the Jack's life witness.
I am so glad that I can have to wonderful experience to work with Jack and you, and I hope to see you in Asia again soon, My pray is with you and your family in this time of missing your love one. Take care, and May His light shine upon you, and and May His kind and gentle hands hold you, when Jack is just not around you for a while
Stephen Tam
ABGTS, HK
Anita & Family--
As the services end and reality sets in, I pray you will thank God as I did in my father's passing:
*For placing on earth a real man.
*For granting healing to the "life above" over lingering suffering.
*For Jack's inspiration to keep on chugging with a heart full of love and a brain full of common sense.
Know of our continued prayers.
Gene & Lonya Scarborough
Anita and "kids",
May the Lord give you all an extra dose of the courage which Jack and you all displayed in the "living of these days".
Love you .
Ann Kersey
Anita and Family,
All my thoughts and prayers are with you in this difficult time. May the Lord bestow strength and continue to bless you as he blessed you with his wonderful gift of “Jack”, he was a faithful inspiration and a caring light in many people lives. I’ll always cherish the moments I was able to witness his compassionate life and generous legacy.
Kindness regards,
Victoria Whatley, CBF
Anita & Family,
Our thoughts and prayers are with you today. We have been checking the blog every day -- and praying for you all each time we did. We wish that we could be at the funeral, but distance in miles makes that impossible. We just wanted you to know that we were with you in spirit.
Love, Arville & Shelia
Anita...Our prayers are with you and the children during this time of grief. We have appreciated for many years now the wonderful spirit of Jack Snell and his endless contributions to CBF. He will be greatly missed. Jim & Helen Phillips, Gaffney, SC
Dear Anita and family.
Judith and I send our thoughts, prayers and condolences to you at this time; while rejoicing with you in a life well lived.I have fond memories of Jack's ministry in Jacksonville, with CBF in Asia and then in Atlanta, and his ongoing love and support of the Baptist World Alliance.
Paul Montacute.
Anita and family,
It was my privlege to get to know Jack back in the 70's when we did "small group week" with the missionaries at MOC, and later he helped when I directed that program a couple of years at Pine Mountain. I always appreciated his humor, discernment, and commitment to missions.
You have a rich heritage of having shared his full and meaningful life.
Frank Wells
Moody, AL
Anita and family:
Please know my prayers are with you during these difficult days. I am grateful for the opportunities I had to experience Jack's wonderful spirit. I'm sure I will never sing "Great is Thy Faithfulness" without thinking of Jack.
With love and prayers,
Ken Corcoran
Dear Anita,
All of us here in TRBC share your grief. Jack has been a very dear pastor to all of us here and we still consider him very much our pastor even after his interim. Jack has impacted many of our lives and I am blessed and proud to have had him as my teacher, mentor and friend.
Our prayers are with you, Charley, Stephanie and Henry. We will miss him very much but we live in the comfort of knowing he is now in a much better place and we will one day meet up with him.
In His love
Andrew Goh
10/3/07
Although it's a little darker here without Jack, heaven shines brighter with him there.
Anita, my thoughts and prayers continue with you.
Joe McDade
Dear Anita, Charley, Stephanie, and Henry,
My heart aches for the grief you now feel. I feel relieved to know that Jack is no longer in such pain and am thankful for the place God has prepared for him. I can only imagine what it must be like to be in the very presence of God, to get the chance to sit at Jesus' feet. I can imagine the look of joy on Jack's face. Nevertheless, his absence here carries with it great pain for all who loved him. I pray that in time your pain will lessen and your memories will warm your hearts as you reflect on the many significant moments you spent with him. Know that we are present with you in spirit when we can't be present in person. With much love,
Cindy, Eddy, Kaela, and Alex
Dearest Anita - your dear, brave, inspiring Jack had prepared all his friends so well for the end of his journey, but of course for all that we must mourn the loss for us all - and most of all for you and Stephanie and Charlie. We are thinking and praying for you, as we have striven to do for the last months, in love and gratitude for Jack - our amazing fortune in having got to know you both, with all the sharing of music and faith, and in Jack's supreme ability to communicate and strengthen his congregation. It is all a precious part of our lives and memories, which will always be with us.
We know that Jack is now where he knew he would be awaited and comforted - after such a constructive and ever-generous confrontation with death. Courage like that is a true inspiration. What a man!
With all our love - Jen and Brian (UK)
Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you, Anita, Stephanie, Henry, Charley. It is difficult to think of getting through the service this Saturday. I will miss the hugs of my brother in Christ. Our prayers are for strength for YOUR journey and for peace in your hearts. May His presence comfort and guide you as you go through the services and try to resume life without Jack. He was a great man whose influence will fulfill the words on a stichery piece in my office -- "Only God can count the apples in one seed."
Love, Julie and Bill Babcock
I did not really know Jack Snell--I only knew OF him. Yet, everything I observed of him at CBF General Assemblies confirmed what I had heard about him: that he was a true gentleman; a compassionate, caring minister; a missionary role model; a man "more silk than burlap"; a man of deep, profound faith; a good friend and mentor. He will surely be missed by all who DID know him personally as well as by those whose lives he touched publically with his Christlike demeanor. God bless you in your great loss.
Anita,Charley,Stephanie,Henry and all the Snell family,
We are so sad for the loss you have suffered, but so glad the pain and suffering for Jack has ended. Even now I can hear the sound of his wonderful laugh in my
ears. We will miss him, but we are so grateful to have had the blessing of having him in our lives all these years.
God's peace to each of you in this time of transition.
Bill and Sylvia
I have never known a finer human being than Jack...and will forever be grateful for the gift of knowing him. Anita, Charley, and Stephanie - you are all in my prayers every day. Know how very much you are loved.
Laurie
Anita:
Love and prayers for you and for your family.
Karen, Warren & Reed Hatley
Dear Dr. Jack Snell’s Family
Grace and Peace from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Firstly, the Indonesia Baptist Theological Seminary would like to say please accept all our condolences for Dr Jack Snell returned home to be with the Lord, on Wednesday, October 3, 2007, at 5 pm Singapore time.
Finally we want to say God bless you all, we pray that God will give you his power and his strength to face this situation.
Semarang, October 8th , 2007
Sincerely yours,
Indonesian Baptist Theological Seminary
Rev. Dr. Sentot Sadono
President
We are grateful for having known Jack Snell at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church and are sad about this news. Our prayers are with Anita, the children and the extended family.
Frances , Laurie and Josh Baumgardner
Anita and Family,
Please know our heart and prayers are with you during this time of need. I 've grown up with HAB being a vital part of my life and for me, Jack was the heartbeat of the church.
We love you all and will remember Jack as the proud, loving man he is.
-Larry, Ashley, and Hunter Corrado
Wollaston Free Church
Wollaston
England UK
Peter and jasmine Williams and family would like you to know our prayers are with you at this time.
Pleased Anita we were able to meet with you and Jack at the Baptist Conference in Birmingham England and the many memories we hold.
May God be with you and your family
Dr. Snell meant so much to me as a child growing up at Hendricks. I am so sorry to hear of his passing and of your (Anita, Stephanie, Charley) loss. I was able to see Dr. Snell two years ago at First Baptist TAllahassee where I was going to school. It was an amazing day. I still to this day tell my family, "it was the greatest day, AND he remembered who I was!". There was just something about Dr. Snell that I loved and will never forget.
Lynne Hall
Please accepted our belated, but nonetheless sincere, condolences on the loss of a dear man. Dr. Snell was my grandfather's minister at Avondale Estates many years ago.
Jack came into our lives at a time when we desperately needed to feel the comfort of "home". My husband and son and I had experienced the trauma of the tsunami, and soon thereafter my husband required emergency surgery at Mt. Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. Through concerned friends and Jack's heaven-sent placement, he brought comfort and peace to us during a stormy time.
May the sense of peace he gave us be with all of you now and in the future. Thank you for sharing him with us.
Chris and Claire Santuae
Anita:
Travel has taken me away from this blog, but I have returned a last time to thank God for Jack and my opportunity to know him. I am the better for his presence in my life, off and on, since 9th grade. I hope you and your family are well and will prosper.
Kind regards,
Doug Rohrman
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