{"id":48705,"date":"2024-11-11T19:12:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T00:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/?p=48705"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:12:30","slug":"florida-baptists-diversity-on-display-during-dinner-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/florida-baptists-diversity-on-display-during-dinner-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Baptists diversity on display during dinner fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photos by Michael Duncan<\/strong><\/p>\n

ORLANDO- Florida Baptist diversity was on full display on Monday night’s dinner fellowships at First Orlando during the Florida Baptist State Convention annual gathering. Haitian, Hispanic, multicultural, and Asian-American Baptists gathered to fellowship and celebrate what God is doing in and through each of their churches. Below are scenes of these diverse gatherings.<\/p>\n

Haitian Fellowship<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Mimose Jules and husband Erik Jules, pastor of One God in Three Persons, worship during the Haitian Fellowship.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Retired pastor Luc Dominique worships alongside Haitian brothers and sisters during the group’s fellowship.<\/p>\n

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Asian-American Fellowship<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Pablito Lucas (center), Asian-American multicultural consultant and Asian-American Baptists at the Florida Baptist State Convention.<\/p>\n

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Hispanic Fellowship<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Hector Torres, the Spanish\/discipleship pastor at Elevate Church, enjoys dinner with his daughter and wife at the Hispanic Fellowship dinner.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Eloy Rodriguez (sitting), Spanish pastor at Idlewild Baptist Church, catches up with Emanuel Roque (left), FBC Hispanic ministries catalyst, at the Hispanic Fellowship.<\/p>\n

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Multicultural Fellowship<\/strong><\/p>\n

Erik Cummings, multicultural catalyst for the Florida Baptist Convention, conveys diplomas on Baptist University of Florida graduates and honors retired pastors during the multicultural fellowship gathering.<\/p>\n

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Second-Chair Fellowship<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Micah Fergurson, director of strategic initiatives for the Florida Baptist Convention, meets with second-chair cohorts gathered for a celebratory dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida Baptist diversity was on full display on Monday night’s dinner fellowships at First Orlando during the Florida Baptist State Convention annual gathering. Haitian, Hispanic, multicultural, and Asian-American Baptists gathered to fellowship and celebrate what God is doing in and through each of their churches. Below are scenes of these diverse gatherings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":50571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,174,46,10,12,18,19,45,25],"tags":[908,909,392,43,910,911,912],"class_list":["post-48705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-meeting","category-asian","category-black","category-espanol","category-haitian","category-multicultural","category-news","category-statewide","category-stories","tag-asian-american-fellowship","tag-ethnic-fellowships","tag-fbsc24","tag-florida-baptist-state-convention","tag-haitian-fellowship","tag-hispanic-fellowship","tag-multicultural-fellowship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48705","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=48705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69627,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48705\/revisions\/69627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}