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Record-breaking financial distribution given to support retired Florida Ba…
This month, Rick Wheeler, president and chief executive officer of Florida Baptist Financial Services, signed the 2025 distribution of the Florida Baptist Retired Shepherd’s Fund to Mission:Dignity.
Two Florida Baptist churches recognized for generosity to GuideStone’s Mis…
Two Florida Baptist churches were recognized recently for their faithfulness in giving to GuideStone’s Mission:Dignity, a ministry of the Southern Baptist Convention that provides financial assistance to pastors, their wives and/or widows during their retirement years.
Mission:Dignity recipients in Florida to receive 13th Check in 2022
Mission:Dignity recipients in Florida will receive an extra check — a 13th check — in 2022 and annually after, thanks to the establishment of the Florida Baptist Retired Shepherd’s Fund. Proceeds from the sale of the Florida Baptist Retirement Center were used to establish the Retired Shepherd’s Fund.
GuideStone will cover in-network, inpatient hospital care for COVID-19 tre…
Participants in GuideStone’s U.S.-based Highmark BCBS health plans will be able to receive physician-ordered, in-network, inpatient hospital care for COVID-19 treatment at no cost for claims incurred through May 31, 2020.
Constitutionality of Minister’s Housing Allowance Upheld
A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled that the minister’s housing allowance is constitutional under two landmark legal precedents, reversing a lower court’s ruling […]
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