RSS feed for Florida Baptist Witness (FBW) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0900 NAPLES (FBW)—Since 2003, First Baptist Church in Naples has sent regular care packages to nearly 1,000 adopted soldiers in combat areas. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0900 LAKELAND (FBW)—Edwin Holton, 80, former associate director of missions of South Florida Baptist Association, died June 4 in Lakeland. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0900 LEESBURG (FBC)—A revision of the 2013 Cooperative Program budget that reduced income to three Florida Baptist State Convention agencies and the hiring of three church planting field missionaries to expand the teams within the Church Planting Group were among the actions taken by the State Board of Missions during its May 31 meeting at Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0900 HOUSTON (BP)—Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention June 11-12 re-elected Fred Luter, the body’s first African American president, to another one-year term and heard him deliver a rousing challenge to Southern Baptists to unite and pray for revival. <br><br> The call for cooperation and revival was delivered by other leaders, including Executive Committee President Frank Page, and from members of a Calvinism advisory committee who spoke in the exhibit hall the day prior to the convention. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0900 A one-time announcement of special events is a free service provided by the Witness to Florida Baptist churches. Please send materials at least three weeks before the date of the event, to Florida Baptist Witness, 1230 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville, FL 32207, fax 904-346-0696 or submitted using our online form. Items received after deadline may appear in our exclusive on-line version. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0900 HOUSTON (BP)—An initiative seeking commitments from 1 million men to live pornography-free lives was launched at the SBC annual meeting June 11-12 in Houston. <br><br> Named “Join One Million Men,” the initiative calls Christian men to commit to sexual purity and, specifically, to protect themselves and their families from the devastation caused by pornography. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) and Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) jointly sponsored the initiative along with Jay Dennis, pastor of First Baptist Church at the Mall in Lakeland. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0900 HOUSTON (BP)—In nearly 20 years of being a pastor’s wife, Angie Dennis said she doesn’t remember a single instance of a young woman coming to her and saying, “Miss Angie, my husband is struggling with pornography.” Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0900 JACKSONVILLE (FBW)—Several Florida Baptists were among those who graduated from among the six Southern Baptist theological seminaries in spring commencement ceremonies. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0900 Louisville, Ky. (SBTS)—The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president, R. Albert Mohler Jr., today announced his appointment of evangelism professor and denominational statesman Adam Greenway as dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry, effective June 1. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0900 GAINESVILLE (FBW)–In Raising Cain: How the Bible Shapes the Things You Say, Wayne Harvey has provided a catalog of popular expressions that can be traced to the Bible. <BR><BR> Harvey, director of missions for the Sante Fe River Baptist Association in Gainesville, has pastored churches in Connecticut and Florida. He is a graduate of Yale Divinity School, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Florida State University, Harvey provides a broad definition for each of the expressions he lists in alphabetic order and cites in a handy 506-page paperback resource.