It was 1990 in a Shoney’s Big Boy in Ardmore, Okla. Brenda Gilstrap looked at her husband, Bobby; motioned toward his father, a director of missions (DOM) in Georgia; and said, “That’s what you need to do one day, isn’t it?” Bobby Gilstrap, recently elected executive director of the Baptist State Convention of Michigan (BSCM), was in only his second…
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