Florida News
Sep 2, 2010
NORTH AFRICA (BP)—Laila* lies motionless in the sweltering heat of a remote medical clinic poised at the edge of the Sahara Desert.
Black flies swarm the young mother’s face, feasting on the yellow infection that oozes from her eyes. An IV impales one of her arms; the other drapes limply over her swollen belly.
Aug 31, 2010
PENSACOLA (FBW)--Paul Trippe, a member of Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, had reconciled himself to a life of excruciating pain when a prayer request in his Sunday School class led him on a quest for healing.
Prayers on his behalf-he believes-from his class and from others whom he may never meet-led to his healing.
Aug 30, 2010
PENSACOLA (FBW)—Although the words and melodies to a popular youth choir musical “Celebrate Life” had not changed in 35 years, at Pensacola’s Myrtle Grove Baptist Church, the once-teenaged choir members had to bring out the name tags for a reunion with childhood friends in July.
Almost 100 alumni of the Myrtle Grove youth choir of 1968-1984 met in Pensacola July 24-25 to rehearse yet again to sing for a morning worship service at the church where they began.
Aug 30, 2010
GRACEVILLE (BCF)—Four years ago, when BCF graduate and former trustee Richie Allen approached Thomas A. Kinchen, president of The Baptist College of Florida, about training men and women in Brazil for areas of ministry, he had no idea of what might happen.
Aug 27, 2010
BONIFAY (FBC)—More than 200 Florida Baptists from 30 mostly small Panhandle churches have traveled for the past three summers to the land of where Baptist history began to share the Gospel in a state where 97 percent of the residents are non-believers.
Although Baptist roots grow deep in New Hampshire, today the Granite State is considered one of the most irreligious states in the country. Only three percent of the state’s 1.3 million residents profess to be a Christian believer.
Aug 27, 2010
CAROL CITY (FBW)—While South Florida’s New Life Baptist Church in Carol City was seeing refurbished school and church buildings from the work of mission groups from central Florida, adults and teenagers from Plant City’s First Baptist Church were gaining a new appreciation for inner city ministries.
Aug 27, 2010
POMPANO BEACH (BP)—A young woman working as a clerk at a cell phone store in Pompano Beach was able to persuade a man not to proceed with an attempted robbery by talking to him about Jesus.
Aug 26, 2010
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Aug 25, 2010
Florida Baptists are getting out into their neighborhoods, in their own backyards, and in communities of their mission partners. They are taking Christ’s command to His disciples to heart, going out into their own highways and byways in search of the spiritually lost, the broken and needy.
Aug 25, 2010
MIAMI (FBC)—Three evangelism conferences will be offered in three languages—English, Spanish and French Creole—at the Southeast Florida Evangelism Conference Sept. 17-20 in Broward and Dade counties.