Baptist Briefs: Kentucky school honors BWA leader

Campbellsville University presented its leadership award to Baptist World Alliance General Secretary Neville Callam. The Kentucky school recognized Callam “for his dedicated and extraordinary career as an educator, theologian and ecumenist, pastor and church administrator.” He was lauded for his leadership positions with the Jamaica Baptist Union and the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship, resulting in his being the first person from the Global South to be appointed general secretary and chief executive officer of the BWA. Callam delivered Campbellsville University’s Baptist Heritage Lecture Series, speaking on “World Baptists: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.” He also was keynote speaker at the spring 2015 Chapel Convocation Series.

Former missionary and CLC staffer Lockard dies. David Lockard, a Southern Baptist missionary who established the first Baptist seminary in Central Africa before heading up race relations and world hunger awareness for the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission, died March 14 at age 89. David LockardAppointed missionaries in 1952, Lockard and his wife, Susie, served 14 years in Rhodesia—renamed Zimbabwe in 1980—where they led in establishment of African Baptist Theological Seminary, now known as the Baptist Theological Seminary of Zimbabwe. Lockard served as the school’s president before moving stateside in 1967 to direct the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board’s missionary orientation center, then located at Callaway Gardens, Ga. In 1981, Lockard joined the CLC staff as associate director to Foy Valentine, who led the agency from 1960 to 1987. Lockard resigned from the CLC in 1988 at age 62. In addition to his wife of 65 years, Lockard is survived by two children and their spouses, eight grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.