Heritage Column for February 2, 2006
In July 1955 Theodore Adams, the popular and influential pastor of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, was elected president of the Baptist World Alliance at the Golden Jubilee Congress in London. Immediately after the Congress, Adams and three other Baptist ministers made a preaching tour in Russia. They traveled 3,500 miles within Russia and Adams preached 18 times in 15 different Baptist churches. Everywhere the visiting Baptists went, they were enthusiastically received.