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Hillcrest Baptist Church

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Missionaries creatively use Lego winter village to spotlight mission work…

More than 20,000 LEGO pieces, including over 100 minifigures, were on display at the Hillcrest Baptist Church missions house during the Christmas season.  Missionary, Keegan Cullen, who has been collecting […]
December 22, 2025
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Cornerstone Baptist Church: Pushing back the darkness in Santa Rosa County

Editor’s Note: Eric Mitchell is one of the featured church planters in 2025 Maguire State Mission Offering resources. The statewide 2025 offering goal of $1 million is earmarked to help reach the […]
September 8, 2025
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Speaking the truth to a culture needing Christ’s love

How does the Bible relate to the current cultural issues you face at work or that your children face in school? Why does identity matter? How does a Christian respond to the world’s mantras of “Love is love,” “My body, my choice,” and “Don’t judge me”?
February 13, 2025
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International university ministry requires trust in God to lead and provide

Editor’s note: Join your fellow Florida Baptists in prayer for missionaries serving around the globe during the Week of Prayer for International Missions, Dec. 1-8, as well as in financial […]
December 2, 2024
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Children give $10,000 to missions

Excitement filled the worship center as nearly 800 children and volunteers arrived daily for Breaker Rock Beach vacation Bible school at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Pensacola. Amid the fun songs and silly skits that started each morning, Megan Woodham, kids ministry director, gave the children a call to missions.
July 17, 2024
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United in Christ Across Cultural Differences

The seven-man mission team from Hillcrest Baptist Church faced some challenges in Quito, Ecuador.
December 7, 2023
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Chinese Church Plant Blessed by Maguire State Mission Offering

“Our goal is to build relationships and attract seekers to the Pensacola Chinese Baptist Church,” said Zhang
September 13, 2023
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Heart and home for missions

After 36 hours of airports, plane rides, traveling through multiple cities and countries, the two International Mission Board missionaries and their daughter arrived at Hillcrest Baptist Church’s  missions house, a cozy home surrounded by old oak trees and lush green landscape, a welcome place where they would live while serving stateside for a few months.
July 25, 2023
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Honoring those who answer the call

Waking up at 2:00 a.m. to prepare meals, sharpen tools, work on administrative duties or wash clothes–these are just some of the tasks associated with Florida Baptist Disaster Relief.
June 13, 2023
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Students celebrate: 100 baptisms/100 lightbulbs

Why were students at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Pensacola celebrating with shouts of joy and lots of confetti falling as they gathered around a wooden cross with 100 lightbulbs brightly shining?
March 28, 2023
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