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Record-breaking financial distribution given to support retired Florida Ba…

This month, Rick Wheeler, president and chief executive officer of Florida Baptist Financial Services, signed the 2025 distribution of the Florida Baptist Retired Shepherd’s Fund to Mission:Dignity.
October 22, 2025
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State Board of Missions members gather to celebrate/plan

Members of the Florida Baptist Convention’s State Board of Missions gathered virtually Feb. 6 to celebrate God’s work throughout Florida in 2024 and to look forward to His continuing movement throughout the Sunshine State in the future.
February 6, 2025
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More than 50 Florida Baptists receive academic scholarships

More than 50 Florida Baptists have received $1,000 scholarships for the 2023-24 academic year through a cooperative effort between Florida Baptist Financial Services and the Florida Baptist Convention.
August 15, 2023
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Florida Baptists approve 2023 budget/policy revisions/special sexual abuse…

Florida Baptists celebrated churches working together to expand God’s kingdom during the 2022 Florida Baptist State Convention held Nov. 14-15 at Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola.
November 15, 2022
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More than 60 scholarships awarded to Florida Baptists

More than 60 Florida Baptists have received $1,000 scholarships for the 2022-23 academic year through a cooperative effort between Florida Baptist Financial Services and the Florida Baptist Convention.
August 16, 2022
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Mission:Dignity recipients in Florida to receive 13th Check in 2022

Mission:Dignity recipients in Florida will receive an extra check — a 13th check — in 2022 and annually after, thanks to the establishment of the Florida Baptist Retired Shepherd’s Fund. Proceeds from the sale of the Florida Baptist Retirement Center were used to establish the Retired Shepherd’s Fund.
March 30, 2022
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Florida Baptist Retired Shepherd’s Fund Established following sale of Reti…

During the annual Board of Trustees meeting on March 10th-11th, President & CEO Rick Wheeler announced the completion of the sale of the Florida Baptist Retirement Center to KR Management and the founding of the Florida Baptist Retired Shepherd’s Fund through Mission Dignity.
March 23, 2022
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BCF receives $30,000 for bivocational ministers scholarship

A check for $30,000 for the Baptist College of Florida’s Bivocational Ministers Scholarship fund was presented to BCF President Thomas A. Kinchen in April by Rick Wheeler, executive director-treasurer of the Florida Baptist Financial Services.
April 27, 2021
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Florida Baptist Financial Services welcomes new president

Florida Baptist Financial Services will welcome Rick Wheeler as the new president and chief executive officer January 2020.
October 17, 2019
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Constitutionality of Minister’s Housing Allowance Upheld

A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled that the minister’s housing allowance is constitutional under two landmark legal precedents, reversing a lower court’s ruling […]
March 25, 2019
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