NEWS HEADLINES

Florida Bible Drillers, speaker head to national stage
[May 2, 2008]
ORLANDO (FBC)—Three homeschooled teenagers took top honors in the Florida State Bible Drills and Speakers Tournament April 26 in Orlando. For hundreds of Florida Baptist youth and children, the annual event, hosted by First Baptist Church, was the culmination of months of honing Bible skills at home then exhibiting them at church and associational events.

Bible driller urges others to hide God’s word in their hearts
[May 2, 2008]
ORLANDO (FBC)—Eight years of Bible drills have instilled life lessons in 17-year-old Lydia Kulpa of St. Augustine.

Retired Convention staff Frank Delrose Jr. dies
[May 2, 2008]
JACKSONVILLE (FBC) Retired Florida Baptist Convention employee Frank Delrose Jr., died April 24 at the Heartland Health Care Center in Orange Park. He was 85.

Public Relations Division staff receives four awards in annual competition
[May 2, 2008]
PHOENIX, ARIZ. (FBC)—The Florida Baptist Convention’s Public Relations Division staff received accolades for professional achievements from the Baptist Communicators Association during the 2008 Wilmer C. Fields Awards competition Friday, April 18 at the Crowne Plaza San Marcos Resort in Phoenix, Ariz.

Non-reporting churches skew ACP’s lackluster results
[April 28, 2008]
JACKSONVILLE (FBC)—With 16 percent of their congregations not reporting, Florida Baptist churches overall recorded a decrease in baptisms, total members, as well as Sunday school attendance and enrollment in 2007, according to statistics compiled in the Annual Church Profile.

Haitians receive gifts of shoes, pants and shirts
[ April 25, 2008]
PORT AU PRINCE (FBC) Compliments of Florida Baptists, 4,200 pairs of shoes, 2,000 pants and 2,000 shirts—packed in 169 boxes—arrived April 3 in flood-ravaged Haiti.

Volunteers needed for Crossover Indiana
[ April 25, 2008]
INDIANAPOLIS (FBC)—As the State Convention of Baptists in Indiana gears up for the Crossover Indiana evangelism event June 7, they are calling on Florida Baptists, their missions partner, to lend a hand.

SonShine missions leaders called to work in ‘one accord’
[April 11, 2008]
LEESBURG (FBC)—Called to act in “one accord” at the 2008 SonShine conference nearly 250 Florida Baptist mission leaders came together to focus on the needs of missionaries and missions education.

Campers on a mission to reach Florida for Christ
[March 27, 2008]
MARIANNA (FBC)—In campgrounds across the state, over 400 Florida Baptists participate in evangelistic outreach through Campers on Mission each year sharing their faith as they go.

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