Voddie Baucham Jr., evangelical pastor, theologian, and author, died on September 25, 2025, following an emergency medical incident, according to a statement from his ministry, Founders Ministries. His death shocked many in the faith community, where he was deeply respected for his passionate preaching and unwavering biblical convictions. The ministry confirmed Baucham’s death occurred after a medical emergency, but it did not provide an official cause of death.
Baucham’s health had been a public concern since early 2021, when he revealed he was diagnosed with full-blown heart failure. At the time, he described being “in the final stages of a catastrophic event, and within an hour or so of death” as he sought urgent treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Florida. He later underwent quadruple bypass surgery and treatment for severe arrhythmias, life-threatening conditions requiring ongoing monitoring and care.
While his passing marks the end of a significant chapter in evangelical ministry, Baucham’s legacy has also been shadowed by a controversy involving a high-profile GoFundMe campaign to cover his medical expenses in 2021.
However later, former G3 Ministries president Josh Buice, who resigned after confessing to using multiple social media and email accounts to “publicly and anonymously slander numerous Christian leaders,” says he made an “unsubstantiated” claim that Baptist preacher Voddie Baucham was “deceitful” in a GoFundMe campaign that raised more than $1.4 million for his heart surgery.
“In a past critique of Voddie Baucham and Founders Ministries, I made unsubstantiated and sinful remarks, including leading questions that lacked evidence and called into question the good reputation of my brother, Voddie Baucham,” Buice said in a statement released by G3 Ministries. But TRR says it has ‘repeatedly reached out to both Ascol and Baucham, requesting documentation on how the $1.4 million was spent, but neither has replied.’
This controversy spanned later; in her article dated May 22, the founder of Roy’s Report, Julie Roys, stated, “So, I am publicly asking both Ascol and Baucham to disclose what happened to the more than $1.4 million they raised. This is basic accountability. And it’s something every honest minister of the gospel should welcome.”
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Baucham’s health had been a public concern since early 2021, when he revealed he was diagnosed with full-blown heart failure. At the time, he described being “in the final stages of a catastrophic event, and within an hour or so of death” as he sought urgent treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Florida. He later underwent quadruple bypass surgery and treatment for severe arrhythmias, life-threatening conditions requiring ongoing monitoring and care.
While his passing marks the end of a significant chapter in evangelical ministry, Baucham’s legacy has also been shadowed by a controversy involving a high-profile GoFundMe campaign to cover his medical expenses in 2021.
Controversy regarding the Voddie Baucham GoFundMe campaign?
The controversy began after a 2021 GoFundMe campaign organized by Founders Ministries president Tom Ascol to cover Voddie Baucham’s Medical Expense Fund raised over $1.4 million. Ascol organized the 2021 GoFundMe campaign for “Voddie Baucham’s Medical Expense Fund” that raised more than $1.4 million. In his email to The Roys Report (TRR), Josh Buice claimed that Baucham’s operation would have cost a cash patient “no more than $300,000,” calling into question what happened with the remaining $1.1 million.GoFundMe page of Voddie Baucham's medical expenses. (GoFundMe)
However later, former G3 Ministries president Josh Buice, who resigned after confessing to using multiple social media and email accounts to “publicly and anonymously slander numerous Christian leaders,” says he made an “unsubstantiated” claim that Baptist preacher Voddie Baucham was “deceitful” in a GoFundMe campaign that raised more than $1.4 million for his heart surgery.
“In a past critique of Voddie Baucham and Founders Ministries, I made unsubstantiated and sinful remarks, including leading questions that lacked evidence and called into question the good reputation of my brother, Voddie Baucham,” Buice said in a statement released by G3 Ministries. But TRR says it has ‘repeatedly reached out to both Ascol and Baucham, requesting documentation on how the $1.4 million was spent, but neither has replied.’
This controversy spanned later; in her article dated May 22, the founder of Roy’s Report, Julie Roys, stated, “So, I am publicly asking both Ascol and Baucham to disclose what happened to the more than $1.4 million they raised. This is basic accountability. And it’s something every honest minister of the gospel should welcome.”
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