Geoffrey Davis, 35, a music minister at the Word of Faith Church outside Detroit, cut short a mission to Georgia and California to be home Friday for his 15th wedding anniversary to his wife, Vanessa.

Mr. Davis, a gospel singer who performed with members of the Grammy-award winning Winans family, will be honored Tuesday night at the church where his singing and songwriting were greatly admired.

''He truly believed music could minister God's message of love,'' the Rev. Keith Butler, pastor of Word of Faith Church, told the Detroit Free Press. ''He was a strong father and a great husband.''

Mr. Davis directed gospel choirs and wrote gospel music. His last performance was the day before he died when he sang, ''Laughing at the Devil,'' a song he wrote, to a church congregation in Delano, Calif., the Free Press reported Saturday.