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In total, an estimated $40-50,000 had been stolen from two July 15 offerings Senior Associate Pastor Danny de Armas told congregants a week later on July 22.
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Congressman Connie Mack IV, R-Fort Myers, is the heavy favorite in the Aug. 14 Republican primary that has seen four prominent candidates leave the race (including former interim U.S. Senator George LeMieux who nevertheless remains on the ballot). Two other, lesser-known candidates are also on the ballot.
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Evelyn, a very fluent Swahili speaker, founded a youth ministry based on Bible memorization and drills that spread over the whole area. She was also the key figure in the local women’s ministry, encouraging women as leaders of this ministry. She taught pastors in a local Bible School, and with Douglas started a music ministry that led to many new hymns being written by local musicians. A new songbook had to be written with all the new songs that were composed.
If you’re like me, you’re weary of the excessive politicization of nearly everything in American culture.
Can’t we just enjoy Oreo cookies without making a statement about gay rights? Or savor a chicken sandwich without fear of being labeled a hater or homophobe?
JACKSONVILLE (FBW)—Attorney Joey Vaughn speaking in opposition to a proposed gay rights ordinance told Jacksonville City Council members July 24 if they wanted to make a statement supporting equal rights they should just “pass a resolution.”
ORLANDO (FBW)—Florida Family Policy Council expects to distribute 2.3 million voter guides for the Aug. 14 primary election in the Sunshine State—and another 3 million before the November general election, President John Stemberger said in a July 30 news release.
JACKSONVILLE (FBC)-Florida Baptist Convention retiree Russell Kauffman of Jacksonville died July 24 at McGraw Community Hospice. He was 94.
MIAMI (FBW)—The head of Miami-Dade County Public Schools who last month threatened to evict a Southern Baptist church which rents space because of the congregation’s opposition to homosexuality apparently had a change of heart and now says the First Amendment is a priority.
Supt. Alberto Carvalho told the school board in a memo dated July 30 there would be “no action” to terminate the lease for Impact Miami following an investigation and a legal review.
C.T. Studd, the missionary to China and Africa, once said, “The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.” If Florida Baptists will do great things far away, they must have the resources to do great things in Florida. If they will do great things in Florida, they must be expanding, not reducing the work, role and budget of the Florida Baptist Convention.
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In the village of 36,000 south of Jacmel on Haiti’s southern coast, residents spent hours each day collecting water from three springs, each of which goes dry at times during the year. They had to dip water into shallow pans through small openings, and empty the pans into five gallon buckets that they carried back to the village. More than 100,000 Haitians depend on the springs for potable water, he said.
Here’s a fresh and simple way to invite school teachers and staff to your church. Honor those important community leaders by planning a “Meet the Teacher” Sunday during the first month of school.
Dave Says is a column featuring the financial advice of nationally syndicated radio host Dave Ramsey, the Dave Says column is filled with timely, relevant questions and answers taken from actual calls on Ramsey's radio program, The Dave Ramsey Show.
The doctrinal systems of Calvinism and Arminianism are a historic divide within the evangelical world and Baptist life in particular. Yet, the doctrinal perspectives are closer at some points than many people realize.
OCALA (FBW)—The history of College Road Baptist Church in Ocala is also an account of almost all John Downing’s pastoral career. The church will honor him August 26, his 30th anniversary and the date of his retirement.
Downing became College Road Baptist Chapel’s first full-time pastor in 1982, when the fledgling congregation met in a double-wide modular building on 10 acres west of I-75 on Hwy. 200. The mission church had begun two years earlier at College Park Elementary School, a vision realized for Marion Baptist Association Director of Missions John Sible and Oakcrest Baptist Church Pastor Bill Terrell.
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After asking Pastor John Wethington for suggestions of an alternate place, the pastor and his wife invited the family to move into their home.