Your most supportive people serve the church as deacons. We recognize that this service to the church is costly, that they devote themselves to a particular area as their main ministry rather than spreading their service out in several places. It has been a great blessing to me that the church here appointed several men as elders to help oversee the church. The list is remarkable in that it is unremarkable. These make the gospel attractive to outsiders.
All churches have people who serve as elders, though they have given the office different names.
Elders are not exclusively Presbyterian, and they're not foreign to Baptists, either. A lot of modern churches confuse staff and elders. The staff are people the church has set aside for full-time ministry and have their salary paid by the church. An example of ministry staff who are not elders would be our pastoral assistants who serve us before going off to seminary. Our church constitution requires that the majority of elders not be paid staff.