Word hs been received that the Rev. Nelson K. Malkus, a Teaching Elder in the PCA, entered his eternal reward last evening, April 10, 2012, at the Quarryville Retirement Home in Quarryville, PA. He was 96 years old at the time of his passing.

No details are yet available, and we will update this story as soon as they are received.

Nelson was born in Trenton, NJ, February 28, 1916 to parents Jacob and Addie (Kellum) Malkus. Raised in the Trenton area, he later attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia College of the Bible and Columbia Bible College, graduating there in 1945 with the B.A. degree. He took his preparation for the ministry at Faith Theological Seminary, graduating in 1948 and was both licensed and ordained in June of 1948 by the New Jersey Presbytery of the Bible Presbyterian Church.

Rev. Malkus was first called to serve as a missionary in Mexico, 1948-1951, then more remotely to the Philippines, 1951-1952. Leaving the foreign mission field, he pastored churches in Texas, Nebraska and Washington State before taking a three year term with National Presbyterian Missions, 1970-1973, the church planting arm of the RPCES.

He is perhaps best remembered for his long term of service as the executive director of World Presbyterian Missions (RPCES), following Bill Mahlow who resigned to serve full time as pastor of the growing Evangelical Presbyterian in Annapolis, MD. Malkus remained in that position up until the Joining & Receiving in 1982. After the J&R, he transitioned to a post as an associate coordinator with Mission to the World, 1982-1984.

At the age of 70, when most men retire, Nelson took up a post as chaplain at the Quarryville Retirement Home, and ministered in that capacity from 1986 until 1991. At the age of 75, he was officially registered as honorably retired, but that was just on paper, for he immediately turned to serve as associate pastor at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lancaster, PA, 1998-1999, then again as an interim chaplain at Quarryville, 1999-2000, and finally, taking up his last pastoral work at the age of 84, he again served on staff at Westminster church of Lancaster, 2000-2002.

Editor’s Note: The PCA Historical Center provided details for this biographical sketch.