
ARABIC BAPTIST LEADER RAOUF GHATTAS DIES AT AGE 69
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector MURFREESBORO — Raouf W. Ghattas, a Tennessee Baptist pastor known for his work in reaching Muslims with the gospel, died Nov. 25 of an apparent heart attack at his home in Murfreesboro. Ghattas, 69, was pastor of Arabic Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, a congregation he helped establish in 2011 along with his wife, Carol. Ghattas was born in Cairo, Egypt to an Evangelical