{"id":13640,"date":"2018-02-07T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridabaptist.wpengine.com\/?p=13640"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:53:34","slug":"st-croix-revival-feeds-physical-and-spiritual-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/st-croix-revival-feeds-physical-and-spiritual-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Croix Revival feeds physical and spiritual needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>During the revival crusade in St. Croix on Jan. 31st, approximately 250 people came to Christ, said Jeffery Singletary, <a href=\"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/central\/\">central Florida<\/a> catalyst.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\">Florida Baptist<\/a> pastors traveled to St. Croix in the days leading up to the revival and worked with high schools and middle schools on the island.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Peoples, Send City missionary with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">North American Mission Board<\/a>, said that the people of St. Croix were welcoming and warm to them \u201cdespite a majority of them still being without power and having been through a lot since hurricane Maria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers Defensive Back Dexter Sanders, who was also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/superbowl\/history\/mvp\/sbxxxvii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2003 Super Bowl MVP<\/a>, and Corey Sanders, pastor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wemoveccc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Movement Christian Church<\/a> in Homestead, spoke to the youth at four different schools.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13643\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sanders-with-kids.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13643\" src=\"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sanders-with-kids.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Corey Sanders ministers to kids in St. Croix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sanders, who not only pastors but is also a hip-hop artist, challenged the students with motivational words while Dexter shared his testimony and experiences from the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was amazing to share the hope of Jesus with students,\u201d said Peoples.<\/p>\n<p>Peoples preached on prayer, trust and praising God at all times.<\/p>\n<p>Singletary said 15,000 meals were passed out at the crusade.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Green, executive director-treasurer of the Florida Baptist Convention, shared that the result of the revival crusade was a \u201cfantastic, tremendous blessing and movement of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By Keila Diaz, Florida Baptist Convention, February 7, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the revival crusade in St. Croix on Jan. 31st, approximately 250 people came to Christ, said Jeffery Singletary, central Florida catalyst. Florida Baptist pastors traveled to St. Croix in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2621,17,19,746],"tags":[1421,1518,1519,1473],"class_list":["post-13640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-missions","category-news","category-region-us-virgin-islands","tag-corey-sanders","tag-dexter-jackson","tag-st-croix","tag-u-s-virgin-islands"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66933,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640\/revisions\/66933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}