Trustees of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission expressed thanks to Greenwood pastor Hal Lane for his leadership in a unanimous show of support at the close of their meeting meeting Sept. 16-17 in Nashville, Tenn.
Hal LaneLane, pastor of West Side Baptist Church, Greenwood, who served as trustee chairman the last two years, concludes his current term as an ERLC trustee from South Carolina this year. He is also a member of The Baptist Courier’s board of trustees, serving as its chairman in 2007.
Lane said it had been a “tremendous privilege” to serve Southern Baptists as an ERLC trustee.
Having previously served as a trustee from 1986-93, Lane recalled he was in the minority as a “conservative trustee” on the then-Christian Life Commission.
In fact, Lane was given permission by SBC messengers to the 1987 Southern Baptist Convention to give a minority report during the entity’s time to report to the convention.
“It was a very difficult time for the commission,” Lane said. He expressed appreciation to the current trustees for the “privilege of seeing a wonderfully harmonious productive board.” Lane said that over the last 30 years in the ministry, he spent half of those years as a trustee for the ERLC or CLC.
“You are the fruit of the seeds we planted,” Lane told the trustees.