Welch Begins Bus Tour -- with No Bus
The second leg of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)s Everyone Can Kingdom Challenge for Evangelism bus tour began on Sept 22, but with no bus Bobby Welch, the president of the SBC and lead member in the tour, began witnessing while at a parking lot in a local Walmart.
Welch, pastor of First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, Fla., ended the first leg of the 50-state bus tour last week to attend an executive board meeting within the SBC. Through the bus tour, set to end in mid October, Welch hopes to reverse a four-year downward baptisms trend among Southern Baptist churches.