Bobby Welch: Floridian makes plans for SBC presidency

Welch to call for renewed evangelism; endorses one million baptisms in one year
JAMES A. SMITH SR.
Executive Editor
Published June 10, 2004

DAYTONA BEACH (FBW)—Bobby Welch believes he knows what ails Southern Baptists and desires to lead the Southern Baptist Convention to a time of renewed focus and commitment to evangelism that will fix a “malaise” which afflicts the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

Prospective SBC president plans 25-day bus tour to meet ‘grassroots’ Baptists
JAMES A. SMITH SR.
Executive Editor
Published June 10, 2004

DAYTONA BEACH (FBW)—Although he has not yet been elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Bobby Welch has already been busily planning a 25-day bus tour to visit every state in America, as well as one city in Canada, to “further extend the Convention” and to hear the ideas of “grassroots” Southern Baptists.

‘Near death’ combat experience pivotal
JAMES A. SMITH SR.
Executive Editor
Published June 10, 2004

DAYTONA BEACH (FBW)—The man who likely will be Southern Baptists’ next president points to his “near death” combat experience in Vietnam as a pivotal turning point in his life—and one that continues to shape his ministry nearly 38 years after the horrific day in Southeast Asia.

What SBC leaders say about Welch
Published June 10, 2004

Quotable Welch
Published June 10, 2004

DAYTONA BEACH (FBW)—Florida Baptist Witness Executive Editor James A. Smith Sr. interviewed Bobby Welch May 23 about issues of Southern Baptist life in the news. The following are excerpts of his answers.