The Florida Baptist State Board of Missions welcomed Stephen Rummage as the new executive director-treasurer of the Florida Baptist Convention during its August 2024 meeting.
Rogers’ eight years at First Baptist — until he was called to the Memphis-area Bellevue Baptist Church in 1972 — are the focus of “Moon Port Pastor,” a new book by Phil Kramer, an Arkansas pastor and Florida native.
Stephen N. Rummage has been elected to lead the Florida Baptist State Convention as executive director-treasurer.
Pastor AD Lenoir, senior pastor of Westview Baptist Church in Miami since 2009, was stabbed to death on the steps of his church building Saturday, April 6.
As thousands of spring breakers crowded the streets of coastal Florida, college students from Kentucky — and across the country — used their time away from campus to share the good news of Jesus.
Tommy Green has announced his retirement after serving Florida Baptists as executive director-treasurer since June 2015.
“I was almost killed so many times,” Manith Sanchez said. “Anything could have happened to me, but for some reason God prepared my way.”
“If we don’t start, we’re not going to do anything,” said Paul Colton, pastor of mobilization and sending at Calvary Church, Clearwater, Florida.
Thomas A. Kinchen, president emeritus of the Baptist University of Florida (formerly Baptist College of Florida), died Jan. 11 of pancreatic cancer. He retired from the school in December 2022 after 32 years as its president.
“I think the direction we are going to see global missions moving is to partner more with the global church to mobilize workers and increase momentum,” missionary says. The Week of Prayer for International Missions is Dec. 3–10.
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