Idlewild Baptist Church

During Florida Baptists’ 2023 annual meeting, church leaders shared stories in three distinct “Right Beside You” testimony sessions, highlighting their churches’ roles in planting new churches, engaging in mission work, and nurturing young people over the past year.

LUTZ–In his final sermon as Florida Baptist State Convention president, Paul Purvis presented a “one-point challenge” to his fellow Florida Baptists: “Determine to live your life surrendered to the rule of the […]

During the 2023 Pastors’ Conference annual meeting held Nov. 12-13 at Idlewild Baptist Church in Lutz, three Florida Baptist pastors were elected by acclamation to lead the 2024 Florida Baptist Pastors’ Conference.

Small Groups Reimagine, a shift from how we “do church” in post-pandemic church culture, was the focus of the September 2023 Sunday School Conference in Florida Baptists’ Central region.

Ken Whitten, recently retired pastor of Idlewild Baptist Church in Tampa, Fla., will become national director of pastoral leadership at the North American Mission Board (NAMB), beginning in March. NAMB president Kevin Ezell shared the news at NAMB’s Board of Trustees meeting in Miami, February 7.

During a time when families are struggling and children are going hungry, students in Hillsborough and Pasco counties will continue to receive school lunches thanks to the generosity of Idlewild Baptist Church in Lutz.

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.

Florida Baptist pastors were encouraged to cling to God’s peace and acknowledge His sovereignty as COVID-19 disrupts every aspect of life during these turbulent times.

The North American Mission Board (NAMB) recently sponsored two luncheons for pastors, staff and missions leaders in the Central Region of the Florida Baptist Convention. These events took place at […]

Ken Whitten, senior pastor of Idlewild Baptist Church in Lutz, has announced that he will be nominating North Carolina Pastor J.D. Greear for president of the Southern Baptist Convention at […]