Longtime bivocational pastor dies at 88 Clavis Eugene Akridge, retired Alabama Baptist pastor, died July 10. He was 88. Akridge accepted Christ as a youth during a night service at First Baptist Church, Bayou La Batre. After enlisting in the Navy in 1946, he accepted God’s call to ministry. He was ordained at Madden Baptist Church, Heflin, Louisiana, in 1949.…