Part 2: Road to the Beginning Editorial Note: As the late Dr. L.C. Johnson prepared to step down from his long tenure as president of Welch College (then Free Will Baptist Bible College), Contact magazine asked him to write a five-part series of articles. In these short accounts, Johnson traced God’s hand in forming, building, and keeping the denominational college. A spirit of denominational hopefulness in the 1930s had to be translated into a program leading to the establishment of a denominational educational program to produce leadership for our churches.  God gave us certain individuals — I will only name a few to illustrate — so dedicated to the cause of Christian education they were willing to make tremendous sacrifices for it: J.R. Davidson of Georgia, James F. Miller of Missouri, Melvin Bingham of Oklahoma, George Dunbar and J. L. Welch of Tennessee, and L. R. Ennis of North Carolina.  There were others, of course, but these men in particular worked many years to create interest in an educational institution and to develop the belief among our constituency that we could have such an institution.  Portable Bible Institutes L.R. Ennis a movement to establish portable Bible institutes. These were conducted … Continue reading Over My Shoulder, Part 2