Missions
Stay informed with stories, news, and updates from churches across our association and throughout the state. Here you’ll find stories, events, and resources that celebrate ministry work and keep our church community connected.
With WorldCrafts celebration, Parkview Baptist’s Women on Mission help wom…
When the Women on Mission group from Parkview Baptist Church meets monthly, the focus is typically on a local group or charity organization that benefits people in Lake City or the North Florida region. But with the group’s September meeting, these women are impacting the lives of other women across the globe.
Missionaries aren’t ‘super-Christians’: How God uses ‘normal people’ to do…
Jared Mitcham believes that most people have the wrong impression of missionaries. Rather than seeing missionaries as regular people following God’s call God on their lives, he says many have a different impression.
Missions develops disciple-makers
Growing up in a Southern Baptist Church I was quite familiar with Lottie Moon, Annie Armstrong, and Operation Christmas Child to name a few mission emphases. I experienced two domestic mission trips, and I even knew a few full-time overseas missionaries, but I did not experience overseas missions until I was twenty years old.
Florida Baptists come right beside those impacted by riots in Haiti
The Florida Baptist Convention’s culture of serving “Right Beside You” was clearly lived out this week as riots in Haiti caused difficulties for mission teams and other individuals in the […]
Chets Creek ministers in Honduras
Living Water for Roatan “When it comes to missions, there are senders and there are goers. I was a sender,” said Theresa lmbach. That was until she met with Henry […]
Florida Baptist church impacted by volcano eruption in Guatemala
A mission team from First Baptist Church in Chipley found themselves just miles away when Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted on June 3rd. Stephanie Orr, wife of Mike Orr, senior pastor […]
Pins lead to Gospel conversations at the Olympics
Pastor Mike Jones of First Baptist Church Lake Alfred has been sharing the Gospel internationally over the last few years in a unique way – by sharing and trading pins […]
Scott Lake Baptist plants churches, changes lives in Colombia
Beau Bredow, minister of children and education at Scott Lake Baptist Church, recently completed his ninth trip to Bogota, Colombia where his church is partnering with Colombian church pastors in […]
New VBS Resource helps churches ‘Go & Tell Kids’ worldwide
Packing for your next mission trip has just gotten a whole lot easier. LifeWay Christian Resources has produced a new Vacation Bible School program called “Go & Tell Kids” to […]
Camp WorldLight fans missionary zeal into girls and boys
By Barbara Denman, Florida Baptist Convention August 7, 2015 Nearly 400 campers had the opportunity to “Take Heart” in missions focusing on evangelistic needs in Africa, the United States and […]
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