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FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN:
ELDER BOBBY J. POE
Date of Birth: Dec. 14, 1929
Date of baptism: August 1946 at Mt Pisgah Church, Duck Hill, MS by ElderMcDonald
Date of ordination: April 9, 1967 at the Whitehaven Church, Memphis, TN. Marriage: June 24, 1950 to Anna J. Mitchell, Carthage, MS.
Family: Three sons, Kevin, Kendall and Walter. 18 grandchildren
I first came under conviction of my sins when I was 15 and received a hope in Christ and was baptized when I was 16. My burden to know the Scriptures and to share them began in my late teens or early 20s. Because of difficulty which came into the churches about this time I didn't start speaking publicly until I was 35. After the difficulty came into the churches I became discouraged and left off my pursuit of study. When things became settled in the churches, my burdenalso returned and I began to exercise at Whitehaven Church under the ministry of Elder Hassell Wallis. During the early years of my burden to preach I would slip the family Bible out of the house and go into the woods to study so no one would know of my interest.
In 1969 we constituted Grace Chapel Church in Memphis, TN. I was a charter member and the first pastor for 8 years. During the Spring and Summer of 1996 I was blessed to travel to the Philippines on two occasions for about three and half months for the purpose of preaching the gospel. I have served churches in North Mississippi and West Tennessee. |
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