By Linda Lawson Still
Contributing Writer
NASHVILLE — At age 83, Lloyd Elder retired for the fourth and what he termed the “final” time on May 31 after more than six decades of ministry.
In his most recent position, Elder served as volunteer administrator and chair of the development board of the Bivocational and Small Church Leadership Network (BSCLN) with offices at Tusculum Hills Baptist Church in Nashville. While his passion for BSCLN will continue, he plans to focus on family and health issues. He is battling leukemia (CLL) and pulmonary fibrosis.
At the BSCLN national meeting, held in May at Hannibal-LaGrange University in Hannibal, Mo., Elder was presented the Lifetime Ministry Award “expressing our deepest gratitude for your Christian leadership, wise counsel, and devotion to the extension of the kingdom of God.”
BSCLN began in the late 1970s and was chartered in 1996 as the Southern Baptist Bivocational Ministers Association. The name was changed in 2009 to Bivocational and Small Church Leadership Network to reflect a growing nationwide ministry among small churches and bivocational pastors of Baptist and other evangelical congregations. [Read more…]