Dr. Bell is the founding pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and founder of Tabernacle Baptist School and Theological Seminary, and Tabernacle Bible College and Bible Institute in Virginia Beach, as well as Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Greenville, South Carolina. He has served as president of numerous boards, including the Baptist Congress on Fundamentalism, Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of America, and Fundamentalists for Biblical Morality.