For Immediate Release
GALLATIN, TN—Welch College’s traveling theater group The Evangel Players will begin their summer tour Sunday, July 13, according to AnnaGee Harris, Director of Theater. The six-member team, directed by Abby Settle, will perform 15 shows between July 13 and August 3, traveling throughout Oklahoma, Kentucky, Illinois, Alabama, and Tennessee. The group will perform a dramatization of the great work of Christian literature The Pilgrim’s Progress, written by John Bunyan.
“Written in 1678, The Pilgrim’s Progress is just as applicable to the Christian walk today as it was 500 years ago,” Harris said. “When adapting the book into a play, it was important to maintain the magnitude of the epic journey we each take through a world determined to pull us from the straight and narrow.”
The members of the 2025 Evangel Players are Jaron Austin, Kelli Bowman, Kaylen Hagan, Morgan Livingston, Kaden Parker, and Grace Pope.
Tour Schedule
July 13 Locust Grove Free Will Baptist Church, Locust Grove, OK
July 13 Crossroads Church, Jenks, OK
July 16 Cornerstone Free Will Baptist Church, Sperry, OK
July 17 Heaven Bound Freewill Baptist Church, Stigler, OK
July 18 First Free Will Baptist Church, Checotah, OK
July 20 Bethel Free Will Baptist Church, Allen, OK
July 20 New Home Free Will Baptist Church, Coweta, OK
July 23 Providence Baptist Church, Springfield, TN
July 24 Corner Stone Free Will Baptist Church, Murfreesboro, TN
July 26 Ina Free Will Baptist Church, Ina, IL
July 27 Hendersonville Free Will Baptist Church, Hendersonville, TN
July 27 Red Bay Free Will Baptist Church, Red Bay, AL
July 29 Walnut Grove Freewill Baptist Church, Lowmansville, KY
July 30 First Free Will Baptist Church, Glasgow, KY
August 3 Second Free Will Baptist Church, Ashland, KY
August 3 Lighthouse Free Will Baptist Church, Louisa, KY