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Welch wins contested SBC presidency, prescribes evangelism for SBC decline
INDIANAPOLIS (ABP) -- Florida pastor Bobby Welch won the first contested Southern Baptist Convention presidential election in a decade June 15, then directed his characteristic zeal for evangelism toward reversing the SBC's numerical decline. Welch, pastor of First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, defeated North Carolina pastor Al Jarrell, 3,997 to 1,020, or 79.6 percent...
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