Church Plant

Like many other churches across the nation, COVID-19 threw plans out the window, leaving leaders of all kinds scrambling to adjust. Putting plans on hold and pulling audibles became essential for pastors and church planters like Dave Gipson over the past year.

Originally from a small community in southeast Haiti, Daniel Garcon has seen areas that desperately need the gospel – and he believes southwest Florida is one of them.

When church planter Robbie Neiman launched Grace Church in Ft. Pierce three years ago, it was not his first venture in the church planting movement.

With a heart to share the gospel, two sets of brothers–the Bennetts in Jacksonville and the Russells in Titusville– have answered God’s call to plant churches in their home cities. With unique gifts and leadership styles, these brothers are committed to reaching new believers through church planting.

Church planting is not for the faint of heart. It requires confidence in things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. It calls for faith.

“The things that are hard are the things that are the most rewarding in life,” said Oscar Longoria, pastor of The Rock Church, a new church plant in Brevard County.

Gathering in the lavish, rapidly growing city of Naples is a four-year-old church plant dedicated to remaining faithful in the small tasks and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Planting a church is never the same twice and no two church plants are alike. This is part of what makes the people of God a great example of diversity and church planting a task not for the faint of heart.

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 Baptist church in one of the fastest developing cities in the state.

A decade ago, North River Church was planted by West Bradenton Baptist Church, as a beacon for Christ to reach the explosive growth of new families moving to one of the state’s fastest growing regions.