Mission Spotlight Founder Dies

Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA—Oscar Heinrich, 86, founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s long-running Mission Spotlight program, died September 16 in Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States.

Heinrich founded Mission Spotlight in 1968. Based on slide presentations, it represented at the time a revolutionary way of regularly reporting mission projects to individual churches around the world.

He is survived by his wife Judy, a son and two daughters,  six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.