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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.
Church leaders gather to grow group ministry
Why do we need Sunday school? How do we get leaders who stay? What is a disciple? These are a few questions answered during the two-day Lifeway Sunday School Essentials Conference hosted at First Baptist Church of Pensacola in January.
Challenge 2025 Gathering to focus on evangelism
Florida Baptists will come together for the Challenge 2025 Gathering Feb. 28 at First Baptist Church in Orlando to celebrate evangelistic victories statewide and to strengthen evangelistic fervor and commitment.
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.
Florida associational leaders gather for 2023 summit
Florida Baptist associational leaders gathered in Jacksonville Jan. 9-10 for the 2023 Florida Baptist Conference of Associational Leaders summit.
Baptist College Of Florida Graduates (Florida Residents)
GRACEVILLE–Congratulations to these 10 Floridians who were among the 2022 Baptist College of Florida graduates.
Missionaries aren’t ‘super-Christians’: How God uses ‘normal people’ to do…
Jared Mitcham believes that most people have the wrong impression of missionaries. Rather than seeing missionaries as regular people following God’s call God on their lives, he says many have a different impression.
Rest, restore, renew: The value of sabbaticals
Sabbaticals are often associated with tenured professors taking a semester off to write, do research or study abroad; the term is rarely used for pastors. But, for Florida Baptist pastors, the concept has evolved over the past couple of years and, thanks to the experience of one pastor, the value of pastoral sabbaticals is now appreciated more fully.
2022 Florida Baptist State Convention Sermons
Watch the 2022 Florida Baptist Pastors’ Conference and State Convention sermons here!
BCF Trustees receive reports/look toward future
In an Oct. 18 meeting, the Board of Trustees of The Baptist College of Florida in Graceville received reports from each of the committees outlining the significant work being done in each area. The executive committee informed the board of the sale of the clinic building and the re-lease agreement with the Tri-County Airport Authority.
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.
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