Sullivan was identified as the kidnapping victim by Tennessee church's pastor Tom Hatley, at the request of Josh Sullivan's wife Meagan Witt Sullivan—the South African police have not confirmed his identity.

Gunmen in South Africa have abducted a U.S. missionary from his church as he was delivering a sermon, police and a colleague said Friday.Pastor Josh Sullivan was abducted late Thursday at the Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell outside the coastal city of Gqeberha in what appeared to be a kidnapping for ransom,