Stories tagged with: bivocational small church leadership network

• Balancing pastorate, marriage aim of conf. resource

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, August 30, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Happily wed to his new bride Pennie, Joe Wright didn't want to travel without her in his role as executive director of the Bivocational & Small Church Leadership Network (BSCLN).

  "When I interviewed with the BSCLN and they offered me the position, I shared with them, 'This is a burden on my heart. A lot of ministers are struggling. I'm a newlywed, I'm happy and I want my wife to go with me,'" Wright told Baptist Press in describing a new BSCLN conference for pastors and their wives. Read More

• Small church, bivocational group offers free education

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, August 27, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

  Submitted photo.

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- As Joe Wright Jr. and his wife Pennie worshiped with a Southern Baptist congregation of 12 members in the Tennessee Delta just a few weeks ago, the pastor's participation was noticeable.

  "We sat there and watched the pastor open his hymnbook and without a piano, he led those 12 people in about three songs," said Wright, in his fourth month as executive director of the Bivocational & Small Church Leadership Network (BSCLN). '"When he was done, he shut the hymnbook, and he said let's pray. And he prayed, and he said, 'It's time for the preaching.' And he opened the Bible, ... Read More