By William Carey University Communications
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – Price Harris was among four alumni inducted into William Carey University’s Hall of Fame on April 20 during the school’s homecoming weekend.
The induction ceremony, which is one of the highlights of the weekend, took place during a banquet at Southern Oaks House and Gardens in Hattiesburg.
The inductees included Harris (1964), Don Biadog (1983), (1964), Gary Roberson (1986), and Victoria King (2014), who received the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award.
Born in Tupelo, Harris graduated from Tupelo High School in 1959. After attending Clarke Memorial College in Newton and Mississippi College in Clinton, he graduated from William Carey College in 1964 with a Bachelor of Music in church music.
During his college years, he served Hickory Baptist, Richton Baptist, Calvary Baptist in Columbia, and First Baptist Union. At Calvary Baptist in Columbia, he met and married Ann Leonard, who was in her first year of teaching after graduating from Mississippi Southern University. They celebrated 54 years together in June of last year. They have two children and eight grandchildren.
In 1964, Harris joined another Carey graduate, Dr. W.D. “Step” Martin, as music and youth pastor at First Baptist of Satsuma, Alabama. He and Martin moved to Calvary Baptist in Shreveport in 1969 where they worked together for 20 years.
Harris learned to love missions as a student at Carey and was a participant in the Baptist Student Union. In 1989, Harris began a traveling ministry of music and missions. He has continued this work in many states and countries.
He is the president of Price Harris Evangelism, a non-profit organization. His work in Jamaica, Romania, Mexico, Brazil, and the Philippines is focused on returning to the same places several times, developing a continuing ministry and strong relationships with the people there.
Church conferences and revival meetings also have an important role in his ministry. His passion has been to introduce lay people to short-term mission trips and to see them develop a lifestyle of involvement in missions and evangelism. He has led more than 500 people on more than 50 mission trips.
