Next Generation
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.
How about a survey? Students engage college peers in gospel conversations
How can an invitation to take a survey and receive a free book lead to gospel conversations?
Engaging the Next Generation with Radical Hospitality
When I first came to the church at the age of 12, the idea of hospitality was foreign to me. Growing up, I lived in a home that didn’t value time together in the same way that I would come to experience at church. When I visited on a Sunday morning, I was greeted at the front door and experienced someone taking the time to get to know my story. There I realized the church wasn’t limited to a building; church is a family of believers who intentionally fellowship with one another for God’s glory.
UF Students spend spring break on mission in South Sudan
South Sudan in East Africa is not your typical spring break destination for today’s college students, but when the opportunity arose to go there on a mission trip, Emma Formet was all in.
How to Develop the Next Generation of Leaders
I have been serving in student ministry for close to 20 years, and I have recently become burdened with the responsibility of raising up the next generation of leaders in the church.
Students celebrate: 100 baptisms/100 lightbulbs
Why were students at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Pensacola celebrating with shouts of joy and lots of confetti falling as they gathered around a wooden cross with 100 lightbulbs brightly shining?
Building a Kid’s Leadership Team
Building a Kids Leadership team is a key ingredient to building a Kids Ministry that brings children to a relationship with Christ and stands beside their parents as they disciple their children.
Churches Near and Far Can Be Involved in Baptist Ministry to College Stude…
When new students arrive at the University of Florida each fall, Eddie Gilley and student leaders from Baptist Collegiate Ministries are eager to help them get plugged into a local church as soon as possible.
Fifty years later, Bill Hughes still passionate about student ministry
When Bill Hughes first began working in student ministry back in 1972, he had no idea that it would be his life’s calling, or that he’d spend the next 50 years doing this.
College ministry invests for future
As the fall semester is set to launch at colleges and universities throughout Florida, Baptist Collegiate Ministries leaders are set to make investments. Investments for the future.
Students embrace fun/Bible teaching at Super Summer Kids camp
What do you get when you mix together 300 kids, representing 17 Florida Baptist churches, with 13 college students and numerous church leaders in an outdoor setting for four days?
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