Road Stories

Date: 8/29/2004

Bobby Welch begins national tour in effort to see 1 million baptized
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (BP)--Shortly after noon, Sunday, Aug. 29, Southern Baptist Convention President Bobby Welch boarded a rented bus on an adventure he compared to a "Lewis & Clark expedition" to try to win souls. [Read More]

‘Try,’ Bobby Welch exhorts, in seeking people for Christ
RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (BP)--In this suburb of Savannah, where First Baptist Church, Richmond Hill, is determined to reach out to a growing community, Southern Baptist Convention President Bobby Welch told of two Florida retirees who used chainsaws and Bible verses in disaster relief after Hurricane Charley to lead 28 people to Christ. [Read More]

First Baptist, Daytona Beach: launching point for bus tour
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (BP)--What some would say is among Southern Baptists’ most influential churches was founded from the debris of a storm at sea, and that’s fitting, says its pastor, Bobby Welch, who also is president of the Southern Baptist Convention. [Read More]

Church grows by pointing people to answers found in God’s Word
RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (BP)--More than 950 people have been baptized in the last five years at the Savannah-area First Baptist Church in Richmond Hill -– the second stop on Southern Baptist Convention President Bobby Welch’s national bus tour. [Read More]

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