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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.
Florida Baptists’ most-read stories of 2022 offer inspiration and challenge
nspirational stories about the naming of a new president for The Baptist College of Florida, churches using creative strategies to reach their communities with the gospel, pastors encouraging pastors, and disaster relief volunteers responding in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian are among the Florida Baptist Convention’s 15 most-read stories in 2022.
Three churches, three languages, three conduits for spreading the gospel
Three churches on one campus, reaching three distinct people groups, is a glimpse of God’s work at its finest, believes Scott Markley, lead pastor of First Baptist Church of Lake Wales.
It takes a team to plant a church, says Lakeside Church pastor Zack Potter
Planting a church requires more than a man with a mission, admits Zack Potter, pastor of Lakeside Church in Winter Haven. Potter credits two supporting congregations plus a growing team of volunteers for helping him plant his church.
Singles Minister Returns to Hometown to Plant New Church
Daniel Helms loved his hometown of Palatka (pop. 10,000), where everybody knew everybody and sports were a major part of life. Even so, during his college years, he decided to pursue his dreams elsewhere, and he wasn’t planning to move back.
South Tampa Pastor Blends Faith with Athletics
JJ Johnson does a different kind of moonlighting. In addition to his position as pastor of South Tampa Fellowship, he also labors day and night as a chaplain to athletic teams.
Redemption Orlando seeks to reach the ‘dechurched’
When Redemption Orlando launches as a new church plant in October, its goal is to reach those who have fallen away from church and away from their relationship with Christ.
‘Meet people … meet needs …meet Jesus’
“We want to meet people, so that we can meet needs, with the hope that they will meet Jesus,” said Church Planter Melo Sauvel, who launched One Family Church in Apopka this past January.
Missionary kid wins medals at Unicycle World Championships
The young American stood in the back of the truck as it moved slowly through the streets of Nalerigu, Ghana. Friends gathered along the road held up flags and cheered for the teenager clad in a Ghanaian national shirt.
‘Under the shadow of the steeple’ Mission Hill Church embraces Afghan refu…
They fled their homeland of Afghanistan, terrified and clinging to loved ones. The lives they had built had been destroyed—homes and belongings, demolished; friends and family members, slaughtered. There was no turning back, but moving forward was anything but certain.
‘New season’ for church plant
Favor Church in Wesley Chapel launched in February 2020. Just three weeks later it closed its doors.
The culprit: a global pandemic that sent fledgling church plants and established churches to the digital sphere to be able to continue ministering to the faithful and reaching the lost.
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