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It’s Saturday morning in South Florida. Come rain or shine, dozens of cars snake slowly around the parking lot of Hollywood Community Church. When the morning ends, as many as 100 …
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Descending upon the campus of Jacksonville’s Englewood High School, more than 25 volunteers from GO Jax 2016 planted vibrant flowers and shrubs along the sidewalks of the school’s…
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Each February, the primarily senior adult congregation of Lake Shore Baptist Church in Jacksonville dedicates a week to wrapping loving arms around their Westside community.…
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By Margaret Colson, Florida Baptist Convention November 8, 2015 Partly cloudy skies, accented by the stench of the smoke from the nearby paper mill, provided the backdrop for…
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By Margaret Colson, Florida Baptist Convention November 8, 2015 Many of the 20,000-plus people attending the Florida Seafood Festival in Apalachicola came looking for bottled…
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By Margaret Colson, Florida Baptist Convention November 8, 2015 The Diaz family of four has lived in our nation for just over a year. Puerto Rican, they still struggle with…
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By Margaret Colson, Florida Baptist Convention November 8, 2015 Six-feet, five-inches tall and 330 pounds, Zeb Bishop took a deep breath, bent his arms and clenched his…
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By Barbara Denman, Florida Baptist Convention November 6, 2016 As he plants a new church in Tampa’s urban Channelside community, Brian Elliott is determined to expand the…
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By Barbara Denman Florida Baptist Convention October 30, 2015 Sitting beside the swiftly flowing, blackwater Edisto River, Joyce Grooms watched as Florida Baptist…
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