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Churches adjust to a very COVID Christmas
Undoubtedly the pandemic has changed the way Florida Baptist churches worship, but it has not stopped them from sharing the love of Christ with a world in need.
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Sanders tapped as Tampa’s BCM director
Jay Sanders of Tampa will assume the position of Baptist campus ministry director at the University of South Florida as well as surrounding Tampa Bay colleges and universities,…
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Florida Baptists feed their communities 6M meals, spurring 1,055 professions of faiths
Nearly 700 Florida Baptist churches have delivered sustenance, hope and love while distributing 6,680,015 meals valued at $28,692,764 to communities facing hunger, unemployment and…
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Baptisms in the Wake of COVID-19 turn challenge into action
When FishHawk Fellowship in Lithia moved worship services completely online at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, church leaders admittedly did not have a strategy to encourage…
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State Board celebrates continued Kingdom ministry
Rather than a message of retreat, the State Board of Missions heard how the Florida Baptist Convention and its churches are moving forward, celebrating new opportunities to seize…
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First Lake Wales’ Back 2 School Bash … drive-thru style
Each year around this time First Baptist Church in Lake Wales is polishing the final details of the church’s “Back to School Bash”—an extravaganza to celebrate the start of a new…
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Partnering churches deliver boxes of food across the state
Working side-by-side as the body of Christ, volunteers from churches in the Central Florida region came together during the past five weeks to distribute food valued at $2.25…
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Orlando’s Meals and Masks on Mondays
Near the height of the Coronavirus quarantine, two Orlando-area churches combined efforts to expand an existing program, with their sights set on providing food and protective…
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Orlando churches merge to serve multicultural community
When Dominican Republic native Wildre Ortega, his wife and small children left New Jersey in 2008 during an economic recession, he never expected to be a pastor of a Florida…
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St. Cloud mayor and pastor sees job as ‘salt and light’ during COVID-19
For St. Cloud Mayor Nathan Blackwell, prayer is an essential tool in leading his city during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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