Ministry Goals:

• To engage senior adults in the ministry of the Kingdom of God through spiritual growth, fellowship and service.
   

• To help FBC members to actively and creatively use their talents and gifts to use media in reaching Dothan and the world through media.
   

• To keep FBC focused on serving others through mission endeavors.

• Favorite Bible Verse: Micah 6:8 He has shown you what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Bob was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He gave his life to Jesus as

a teenager. Bob graduated from Tupelo High School in 1974 then attended Mississippi State University from 1974-1978, graduating with BA in Communications. While in college, he was very actively involved with Baptist Student Union, especially with international students and served as a summer missionary in Malaysia/Singapore in the summer of 1977. After graduating from State, he went to Wheaton College to study Cross-Cultural Communications, graduating with an MA in 1981. In 1980, he worked half a year with Miss Bertha Smith, retired missionary from China. Miss Bertha arrived in China right after Lottie Moon died. After graduation from Wheaton, Bob served in a small mission church in Bolingbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago as Associate Pastor. In 1983, he went to Fort Worth, Texas to study at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and received his Master of Divinity (Theology) in 1986. While in seminary, he did an internship at Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler working in outreach to those in multi family housing. Upon graduation, he met Linda Prevett in Fort Worth and they were married August 15, 1987. In March 1988, Bob was called to FBC Dothan as Minister with Single Adults. Within two months that, title changed to Minister with Single Adults and Senior Adults. In 1990, to that was added Media. He has been working with Senior Adults and Media since 1992. Bob has also led mission trips to Jamaica, Russia, Guatemala, Pittsburgh, New York, Chicago, Kentucky, New Orleans. Bob and Linda have twins, Eric and Elizabeth, born in 1991.

Bob felt God's call into ministry while in high school. God has led in various areas and in different paths in ministry which have involved preaching, leading music, directing a choir, leading youth, church planting, missions and eventually being here at FBC.
 

More about BOB:

Favorite Song: Broken and Spilled Out
Favorite Singer: Steve Green
Favorite Hymn: Day by Day
Favorite Movies: What's Up Doc (Barbara Streisand, Ryan O'Neal), Newsiest, Spiderman, Legend of Zorro, Pride and Prejudice (by A&E), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Mr Blandings Builds His Dream house (Carey Grant, Myrna Loy), It's A Wonderful Life, The Thin Man (William Powell, Myrna Loy), It Happened One Night (Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert), McClintock (John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara), The Private Eyes (Don Knotts, Tim Conway)
Hobby: Traveling, Photography, Hiking, Collecting Hot Sauces
Favorite Restaurant in Dothan: Acapulco or Rodeo or La Bamba or Chili's
Favorite Restaurant in Chicago: Thai Spoon on Wabash (a true hole in the wall place with great chicken curry) or Giordanno's Pizza or Ed Debevic's
Favorite Restaurant in San Antonio: Mi Tierra
Favorite Restaurant in Tucumcari, NM: Rubee's
Favorite Restaurant in Atlanta: Pappadeaux's
Favorite Restaurant in Seattle: Icon Grill
Favorite Restaurant in St. Augustine: Columbia
Favorite Restaurant in Lafayette, La: Mulate's
Favorite Restaurant in Bisbee, Az: Dot's Diner
Favorite Restaurant in Van Horn, Tx: Chuy's
Favorite Restaurant in Havana, Fl: Nicholson Farmhouse
Favorite Theme Park: Hershey Park
Favorite Spot for a Picnic: Great Smoky Mountains beside a stream
Favorite National Park: Glacier National Park
Favorite Food: Singapore Mai Fun, Chinese dish with rice noodles, shrimp, chicken, pork and CURRY!! or Thai Chicken Curry
Favorite Dessert: Cheese Cake at the Kangaroo Court, San Antonio

and Cheese Cake at Junior's in Brooklyn and Sopapilla at Don Pablo's
Favorite Store: Circuit City!! Of course!
Favorite Hike: The Chicago Basin in the Rocky Mountains, between Durango and Silverton
Favorite Scenic Drives: Along the Rio Grande between Big Bend National Park and Presidio.....Highway to the Sun in Glacier National Park...Blue Ridge Parkway
Favorite Stage Shows: Music Man, Annie Get Your Gun,

Phantom of the Opera
 

And a prayer request: To be the person God has called me to be.

That FBC Dothan would always be looking for ways to be involved in missions, in Dothan and around the world.

Thank you...thank you very much....