Bro. Michael A. Taylor

April 21, 1960 - April 25, 2020

Funeral services for Bro. Mike Taylor, 60, of Gary, Texas will be 2:00 p.m. Friday, May 1, 2020 at the Enterprise Missionary Baptist Church with Rev. Jim Moss officiating. A viewing will be held from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Friday, May 1, 2020 at Enterprise Missionary Baptist Church Cremation arrangements were entrusted to Hawthorn Funeral Home. The interment of ashes will be in Crossroads Cemetery in Kingsland, Arkansas. Bro. Michael Atsion Taylor was born April 21, 1960 in Davis Hospital in Pine Bluff, AR. He passed this life April 25, 2020 in Henderson, Texas. He was one of two children born to the marriage of A.T. and Betty Lisemby Taylor. Mike was saved at Mt. Elba M.B.C. in 1969; baptized later at the Mt. Elba swimming hole. He surrendered to ministry December 3, 1977 at Southside Baptist Church revival services led by the Lisembys. Mike announced that call to the church at Mt. Elba and preached his first sermon that Sunday night. Mike was the valedictorian of the New Edinburg, AR class of 1978. He was ordained on July 8, 1978 at Pleasant Springs M.B.C. of Coleman, AR. He graduated University of Arkansas at Monticello in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and from the Missionary Baptist Seminary and Institute of Little Rock in 1986 with a bachelor’s in Theology. He married Leslie Ann Niva on May 24, 1985 and together they celebrated 34 years of marriage and raised two sons in a loving Christian home. Bro. Taylor served his Lord ministering through Pleasant Springs MBC of Coleman, AR; Sardis MBC of Grapevine, AR; MBSF College Minister at Shiloh MBC of Russellville, AR; Red Springs MBC of Gurdon, AR; MBSF College Minister of Calvary MBC of Magnolia, AR; Enterprise MBC of Gary, TX. Bro. Taylor is survived by his loving wife, Leslie Taylor of Gary; sons, Micah Taylor and wife Kelly of Meadows Place, Mitchell Taylor of Gary; sister, Betty Carol Graham of Kingsland, AR; niece, Cecilie Lane of Temple, and nephew, Samuel Lane of Monticello, AR; other relatives and a host of friends. Serving as honorary pallbearers will be; Jimmy Howard, Eddie Brown, Jeff Childress, Carlton Hall, Gib King, Dan Reynolds, Paul Rice, David Wilson, Marcus Phillips, Mid Johnson, Jr. Woodfin, Joel Hudgens, Ron Downs, Zachary McBride, and his many brothers in Seminary and Ministry. In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials to the Enterprise Missionary Baptist Church.