Stories tagged with: bivocational pastors

• Bivocational pastors 'not alone,' Page says

  by Richard Nations/Missouri Pathway, posted Tuesday, May 17, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Richard Nations

  HANNIBAL, Mo. (BP) -- "Bivocational pastors are my heroes" said Frank S. Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, as he addressed the annual session of the Bivocational and Small Church Leadership Network, May 13-14, at Hannibal-LaGrange University.

  "You are not alone," Page told the 55 pastors and wives gathered at the auditorium of the university in Hannibal, Mo., repeating a message he often shares as he speaks around the nation. Read More

• Ga. fires physician for lay sermons, lawsuit says

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, April 21, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo from First Liberty Institute

  ATLANTA (BP) -- First Liberty Institute has filed a lawsuit for a bivocational lay minister and physician, alleging the state of Georgia fired him because of sermons he delivered in the pulpit before his employment as a district health director.

  The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) fired Eric Walsh a week after hiring him as a district health director for northwest Atlanta because of the content of sermons he delivered as an ordained lay minister, alleges the suit filed April 20 in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. Read More

• Labor Day: Bivocational pastors known for work ethic

  by David Roach, posted Friday, September 04, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo courtesy of Jon Church

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- When Rick Lazor pastored Nuuanu Baptist Church in Honolulu with its six weekend worship services in four different languages, he never imagined he would one day join the ranks of bivocational pastors.

  But each Sunday as he walked through the transitioning Kakaako neighborhood to meet his family for lunch, he felt burdened that the area had no evangelical churches. So he left Nuuanu nearly a decade ago to plant a congregation called OlaNui!, Hawaiian for "abundant life." ... Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Urban bivocational ministry

  by Terry Dorsett, posted Thursday, February 05, 2015 (9 years ago)

  HARTFORD, Conn. (BP) -- Bivocational ministers are key to urban outreach, Connecticut Baptist leader Terry Dorsett writes. “We need to shake off the stereotype that this is just a rural phenomenon. … These pastors are part of the team that can reach urban areas effectively,” Dorsett writes, posing the question, “Will we let them have a seat at the table?” Read More

• 'Hard to argue with' CP success, pastor says

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Wednesday, December 03, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (BP) -- Maxine Warren takes home the coffee left over from fellowships at First Baptist Church in Pleasant Grove, Utah, not wanting to see it thrown out.

  She and her husband Louis, in their early 80s, were children during America's Great Depression. Frugality is so ingrained they don't even think about it. Read More