Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Joplin pastor breaks the news of 38-year-old church employee's death due to COVID-19


(Last Thursday on his Facebook page, Pastor Aaron Brown of St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Joplin and Carl Junction broke the news of the death of Bryan Boman, a 38-year-old church employee, whose passing was due to COVID-19.)

It’s with a very heavy heart that I let you know that Bryan Boman, (pictured) one of our staff members, has died. 

He was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week and went into the hospital on Friday. His condition worsened and he was placed on a ventilator in Joplin but was then life-flighted to St. Louis Tuesday. 

All indications were that he was improving but he suddenly took a turn for the worse this afternoon. Bryan was 38.








Bryan loved Jesus and the church. His smile and laugh will linger in our minds and hearts. His skills and abilities conveyed the good news of Jesus in so many ways. He will not be forgotten.

Please pray for his fiancé, Tracy Sneed, his daughter, Riley, his mother and stepfather Gary and Mary DeGraw, his dad Barry, and his extended family. They are all heartbroken. Let’s rally around them and be the living presence of God to them.

Bryan’s body will be returned to Joplin and we’ll let you know about memorial services.

For now weep, cry, lament, let your hearts be broken. Knowing that death does not win gives us comfort, but in these moments we grieve deeply.

Funeral services are 10:00 a.m. Friday, September 18, 2020 at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church of Joplin with Pastors Aaron Brown and Rick Flinn officiating. Those honoring his life by serving as pallbearers are Troy Sneed, Andre Murphy, John DeGraw, David DeGraw, Chass Williams and Phillip Moller. The family will receive friends on Thursday evening from 5-7:00 p.m. in the chapel of Hedge-Lewis-Goodwin Funeral Home. Memorials are being directed to St. Paul’s United Methodist Church c/o the funeral home.


It’s with a very heavy heart that I let you know that Bryan Boman, one of our staff members, has died. He was diagnosed...

Posted by Aaron Brown on Thursday, September 10, 2020
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:37 PM

    I have a difficult time feeling sorry when it is these evangelicals telling everyone not to mask, not to social distance, and that everything meant to aid the public good and welfare is an infringement upon their rights.

    None of them will care, like always, until it is their own dying. But your family, your friends....you? Who cares? Not xtians, not repubs

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  2. Anonymous4:10 PM

    Text that I received from SPUMC on Saturday 9/12:

    “While we await staff testing, we will not have children’s programming or childcare at either Saint Paul’s campus tomorrow.  Worship will be at normal times, bring your kid with you.  Masks encouraged.“

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  3. Anonymous7:10 PM

    The United Methodist Church is not one of the fundagelical churches.

    The Southern Baptists? They split from the Norther Baptists because the Southern Baptists believed that God instructed the slave owners to own slaves!

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  4. Concerned citizen4:45 AM

    710...Bitterness is cancerous to the heart

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  5. Anonymous6:52 PM

    4:45....

    "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Reason in Common Sense: The Life of Reason Volume 1 George Santayana

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