News Releases

For Immediate Release 81 Welch Students Receive President’s and Provost’s Recognition for Fall Semester Gallatin, TN—The fall 2022 semester at Welch College ended with 81 students receiving academic recognition, according to Provost Matthew McAffee. This honor roll...

For Immediate Release Welch College Receives High Athletic Awards from the NCCAA  GALLATIN, TN—The National Christian College Athletic Association distributed the men’s and women’s basketball awards at the National Basketball Championship Tournament in Joplin,...

For Immediate Release Albert Mohler, Brad Ryan to Address Welch Graduates GALLATIN, TN—Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Brad Ryan, pastor of Ina Free Will Baptist Church in Ina, Illinois, will address the Welch College graduating...

For Immediate Release Welch College Choir Announces Spring Tour GALLATIN—The Welch College Choir will conduct a three-state spring tour March 8-14, according to Todd Parrish, Vice President for Institutional Advancement. The twenty-member choir, directed by Dr. James...

For Immediate Release GALLATIN, TN—The album Song in the Night, featuring the 1979 Free Will Baptist Bible College (now Welch College) Choir, has been made available in digital format. The recording features the songs of Doug Little arranged for the College...

For Immediate Release Bethany McClain Hired as Administrative Assistant for Teacher Education and M.A.T. Program GALLATIN, TN—Miss Bethany McClain has been hired to assume a newly structured role in Teacher Education that includes the role of the TE institutional...

On Tuesday, January 10, around 2:30 p.m., Mrs. Verna Malone, wife of Welch College President Emeritus Dr. Tom Malone, passed from this life and was taken into the presence of our Lord. Mrs. Malone leaves behind her a legacy of faithfulness to Christ and His church and...

For Immediate Release GALLATIN, TN—Anna Pinson, a member of the Welch graduating class of 2022, recently joined the Marketing Team as part-time communications assistant, according to Daniel Webster, Enrollment Services and Marketing Director. Webster said, “I’m so...

For Immediate Release GALLATIN, TN—Mitchell Moody has received the Elvin and Joyce King Award Division II Men’s cross country from the NCCAA. This award says, “The NCCAA honors student-athletes for excellence in their Christian testimony, in the classroom, and in...

Mr. Wayne Spruill, Director of Institutional Research at Welch College, died November 9 in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He was 72 years of age. Wayne and his wife, Brenda Sanders Spruill, met while they were students at Welch. They both graduated from Welch in 1972,...

For Immediate Release by Daniel Webster “Before we let the radical left tear down all the statues of our American founders, we need to read Forlines’s insightful book. . . . Thank God for this book, and for these United States of America!” That’s what Former...

For Immediate Release GALLATIN, TN—Welch College recently announced important changes to its Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in theology and ministry, according to Dr. Kevin Hester, dean of the School of Theology at Welch. “Since 2016, Welch College has offered a...