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Central Florida Baptists step up to help Puerto Rican Evacuees
More than 200,000 Puerto Ricans have arrived in Florida since September when their tiny island nation was devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Many of them are overwhelmed and in […]
December 21, 2017
Central Baptist Church opens police substation
Central Baptist Church has partnered with their local police department in a unique way: by opening up a police substation in their downtown campus. The downtown substation, which was inaugurated […]
December 19, 2017
New York Yankees call Ken Whitten ‘mentor’
Ken Whitten used to dream of playing professional baseball. But even though God closed that door following Whitten’s college pitching career nearly 40 years ago at Eastern Illinois University, He […]
April 18, 2016
Clearwater’s Calvary Church celebrates 150 years of faithfulness
Calvary Baptist Church in Clearwater honored its past while casting a mission and ministry vision for the future as the congregation celebrated its 150th anniversary March 5-6. “Founded in 1866, […]
March 18, 2016
Church planter plans organic start in Tampa’s downtown community
By Barbara Denman, Florida Baptist Convention November 6, 2016 As he plants a new church in Tampa’s urban Channelside community, Brian Elliott is determined to expand the resident’s “work-here, play-here […]
November 6, 2015
Church planter brings ‘Redemption’ to Lakeland
by Barbara Denman, Florida Baptist Convention November 5, 2015 After planting a church in Austin, Texas, during the past eight years, Brannen and Heather Padgett sensed God leading them […]
November 5, 2015
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