{"id":32908,"date":"2020-11-10T14:49:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T19:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridabaptist.wpengine.com\/?p=32908"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:06:48","slug":"clermonts-ferndale-baptist-church-celebrates-125-years-of-gospel-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/clermonts-ferndale-baptist-church-celebrates-125-years-of-gospel-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Clermont\u2019s Ferndale Baptist Church celebrates 125 years of gospel witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLERMONT&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/ferndalebc.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Ferndale Baptist Church<\/a> in Clermont will mark a historically significant milestone as it celebrates the 125th anniversary of its founding Sunday, Dec. 6.<\/p>\n<p>In 1895, the 16-membered church joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LakeBaptist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lake County Baptist Association<\/a> as a charter member of the association. Originally named West Apopka Missionary Baptist, the church met in the schoolhouse building still on the property. \u00a0The building has been recently remodeled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ferndale-Baptist-Church.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-32914 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ferndale-Baptist-Church.png\" alt=\"Ferndale Baptist Church\" width=\"278\" \/><\/a>In 1924 with the completion of its first church building, the congregation voted to change its name to Ferndale Baptist Church to reflect the name of the community.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon \u201cBird\u201d Sanders has served as pastor of the church for more than seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Former Pastor Scott Fortenberry will serve as guest speaker for the celebration that will begin at 9 a.m., followed by worship at 10:30 a.m. with special guests for speaking and music. \u00a0Afternoon festivities will continue the celebration with the singing group, Ricky Atkinson and Compassion.<\/p>\n<p>Ferndale Baptist Church is located at 15050CR \u00a0561A, in Clermont.<\/p>\n<p>By Jinell Carroll, November 10, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferndale Baptist Church in Clermont will mark a historically significant milestone as it celebrates the 125th anniversary of its founding Sunday, Dec. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":32915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2621,286],"tags":[743,744],"class_list":["post-32908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-florida-features","tag-ferndale-baptist-church","tag-lake-county-baptist-association"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32908","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\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67279,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32908\/revisions\/67279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}