Our Pastor

Pastor Bobby Leonard was saved as a young man on November 14, 1958. Soon after being saved, Pastor Leonard met Miss Jean Rogers. After claiming John 15:7, he purposed in his heart that she should be his wife. He faithfully attended church and preached for the next eleven and half years before God laid a burden on his heart for the people of Union County.

On May 31, 1970, he founded Bible Baptist Tabernacle with 25 members in Monroe. With a heartbeat for seeing people saved, his favorite part about being a pastor is preaching and caring for people. He never dreamed that many missionaries and pastors would be called and sent from this ministry that the Lord used him to start in a town that was then known as "a preacher's graveyard." Through much prayer and labor under the anointing of the Spirit of God, it has been all but that. He has seen hundreds of people saved around the altars of Tabernacle and has had the joy of seeing many of them go on to spiritual maturity.

His greatest desire for BBT is to see more people come to a saving knowledge of Christ and to see more young men called to preach and begin their own ministries.

Favorite Bible Verse:  Ephesians 3:20 

“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,”