Welch: Reach One Million Baptism Milestone and Never Look Back

By Pauline J. Chang

With only a few days remaining on the nationwide evangelism bus tour, Bobby Welch and his crew rolled into Buffalo, Wyoming, amid the snow and rain for a rally at the Big Horn Baptist Church.

°This is one of the most exciting places to live in all the earth,± said Welch, president of the Southern Baptist Convention. °With 90 percent of people needing to hear about the Lord -- with so many lost people, you¯ve got to try mighty hard to mess up here. You can just run in any direction and find someone who needs to hear about the Lord.±

Welch and his entourage had gone through three-fourths of the states in the past three weeks to encourage Southern Baptists to evangelize one million within one year.

°Southern Baptists have never baptized even half-a-million,± Welch says at the rally in Big Horn. °And when we do reach the million baptism milestone, we¯ll never look back. We¯ll never again baptize less than a million.±

The next rally is scheduled for Oct. 5, in Klamath Falls, Ore.

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