LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) – A legendary Kentucky Baptist pastor who faithfully served for more than six decades and who worked tirelessly to break down racial barriers has died at 94.
Dr. Lincoln Bingham, even after retiring in 2019 at the age of 87, could be found most mornings working at St. Paul Baptist Church at Shively Heights. That was the church that made national news in 2009 when an African American church (St. Paul Missionary Baptist) merged with a predominately white church (Shively Heights Baptist).
Mark Payton, who was the pastor at Shively Heights at the time, said he has known Bingham for more than 40 years. He called him “one of the godliest and the most loving man he has ever met.”
Payton said working with Bingham on the church merger was “one of the smoothest things I ever did in 44 years of ministry. My oldest son said that Lincoln and I were the only guys who could pull it off.”…