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- Pastors reminded to honor calling at annual conference
- Conference breakout sessions focus on pastors family, Christian life, leadership & transition
- Love: What the world needs now
- Florida Baptists celebrate evangelism, church planting & church strengthening priorities
- Hughes urges pastors: Go for the ‘big ask’ of members, themselves
- State Board of Missions hears report from past presidents on GCR
- FBSC messengers applaud pastors who have served 60-plus years
- Messengers in Pensacola approve nominees for Florida’s SBOM & agencies
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• Florida is expected to become the third largest state in the U.S. in year 2012, behind Texas and California. Already Florida’s population is 18 million.
• 20,000 foreign born refugees and immigrants move to Florida annually—more than any other state.
• 4,500,000 foreign born persons live in Florida.
• 1,100 new residents move to Florida each day.
• Every Sunday, 20 languages are spoken in Florida Baptist congregations. In contrast, children in South Florida schools speak in 150 languages at home.
• 674 Florida Baptist churches, or 24 percent of all Florida Baptist churches, worship in a language other than English.
• 2,811 Florida Baptist congregations serve on mission in their communities.
• An estimated 70 percent—or 12.6 million of the state’s 18 million population of Floridians do not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
• An estimated 10 million persons—including undocumented and undercounted—live in three South Florida counties—Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach—yet Florida Baptists only represent 1.38 percent of that population; statewide Florida Baptists constitute 6.5 percent of the population.