Next Meeting June 10th - Liberty Baptist Church - Orlando

Pastor Vern Murray and the great folks of Liberty Baptist Church in Orlando invite you for a day of fellowship and encouragement on June 10th.  This month we are going to all ends of the state to hear from North to South.  The meeting will feature Sterling Young, one of our own church planters from the North, Pastor Bill Bales representing the south, and special guest Blaine Gaudette from Central FL. Blaine is a graduate of Baptist Bible College and planted numerous churches in the US and Panama.  He is now pastoring a Spanish work in Orlando.  It is looking to be a great meeting and a wonderful time to get away from the weekly grind to sharpen ourselves and our ministries.  The preaching will begin at 11 (Officer's meeting at 10) and we will wrap things up by 3 p.m.  You can find directions to the church here.  Please feel free to call (407) 273-3000 if you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to make your visit a blessing to you and your family.

Man Alive Men's Conference April 19-20, 2013

Our Second Annual Men’s Conference will be April 19-20.  It will be at the DoubleTree Hilton located across from Sea World.  This is a four star hotel. The event will start Friday night at 6:00 PM with a great meal.  The program will begin at 7 PM.  We have two dynamite speakers who will really challenge your men. The cost is only $95 which includes a nice supper, full breakfast, rooms and conference.  That price is double occupancy.  A single will be $140. A $50 deposit per person will be due by March 31st.  Please make checks out to Park St Baptist Church.  Mail them to Park St Baptist Church 3901 Park St N St Petersburg Fl 33709.Senior Pastors will receive a $45 discount if you have more than ten men sign up.  If  have more than twenty you will be free.  

Our featured speaker is Phil Hopper who pastors Abundant Life Baptist Church in Lees Summit Missouri.  Abundant Life has a weekly attendance of 3,000 and is growing.  Phil is a much sought after speaker and we are looking forward to him being with us.

 

Otis Nixdorf and his wife, Debbie, have been married over 30 years. They've served in ministry most of those years. River of Life Baptist Church in Cameron began in July of 2003 and is the second church the Nixdorf’s have started.  Otis graduated from Baptist Bible     College, Springfield, MO and has also served as Pastor at High Street Baptist Church in Springfield Mo.

When you send in your deposit, please include a list of names and room assignments.  We will need to get that to our event coordinator at least ten days before the conference.  We have 120 rooms set aside and if we need more we will need to let them know as soon as possible.  Let’s really work hard and make this a great event.  We also need some of you pastor’s to volunteer to bring some items for our door prizes.  We would like to have even more give aways than last year.  Please text or email me what you can bring.  Gift cards are always good, sports equipment etc.  My cell is 727-432-9958.  My email is  pastor@parkstreetbaptist.net

Next Meeting: Grace Bible Baptist - Fruitland Park

Pastor George, Mrs. Mulford and the "Grace Bible Baptist Church Family" extend a friendly invitation for you to attend the first FBBF meeting of 2013 on January 14 at Grace Bible Baptist Church. You will be blessed by the preaching of Pastor David Anderson, Faith Baptist Church, Sarasota (the church where Kathy and I were saved, and which also licensed and ordained me); Pastor Dan Jeffers, Park Street Baptist Church, St. Petersburg (our new State Representative/National Director); and Pastor Russell Johnson, International Bible Baptist Church, Miami (our new State Chairman). We will do our best as a church to make sure your time with us is a blessing and worth the time and effort to come. I hope to see you on Monday, January 14.

The schedule will be as follows: 10: 00 AM - Officers' Meeting / 11:00 AM - Dan Jeffers / 11:45 AM - Business Meeting / 12:15 PM - Lunch / 1:15 - David Anderson/ 2:00 PM - Russell Johnson.

Directions can be obtained by going to our website: www.gbbconline.com. Physical address: Grace Bible Baptist Church, 1703 Lewis Road, Leesburg, FL 34748. Phone:  (352) 326-5738.  

Different This Year

Christmas was different this year.  It all began with an earlier than usual Thanksgiving, in fact, it was so early than when we scheduled our Christmas Banquets to welcome in the season, they were actually still in November.  That was different, but it didn't seem to affect our crowd and we had several first time guests!

Next were our Christmas Concerts, a full 3 days of performances on the second weekend of December.  Decent crowds, again, many guests AND the “heavy lifting” of the December calendar was over before the Fellowship Meeting.  That was different!

The two weekends before Christmas were busy, but not complicated.  They allowed for some extra family time – we were even able to attend the Fort Lauderdale Boat Parade with the grand-kids and visit to a local carnival.  That was different!

Christmas Day had our built in traditions – breakfast at our house, the reading of the Christmas story and the new little elves that could now hand out the presents before opening them – but it was different also.  Through the miracles of Facetime and iChat we were able to share the moment with my parents in Peru and my brother in LA.  All of my sister’s family was in town for Christmas, a definite difference from the past few years, and one of my nephews had this crazy idea of having a “photo booth” for crazy family pictures.  That was different!

My take away from this Christmas is simple – different can be refreshingly different!  Maybe we can use that as a guidepost for our Florida Fellowship for 2013.  Sure, the calendar for the meetings will be different, the off months will give us some different opportunities for wider fellowship at the national level and among our men, and yes, we may even discover a few other different things along the way.  But DIFFERENT might prove to be refreshingly DIFFERENT!

I hope to see you in January!

Russell Johnson

2014 Meeting Schedule

Fellowship Meeting Schedule for 2014

January - Cornerstone Baptist - Davenport

February - No Meeting

March - First Baptist Church of Coconut Creek

April - Port Richie Baptist

May - Bible College Graduations Springfield & Boston

June 9 - Cornerstone Baptist - Davenport, FL

July - No Meeting

August 11 - First Coast Baptist Church - Jacksonville, FL

September 8 – Park Street Baptist - St. Petersburg, FL

October 13 - Cornerstone Baptist - Venice FL

November 10 - Liberty Baptist - Orlando, FL

December - No Meeting 

Next Meeting: November 12 - Park Street St. Petersburg

We are looking forward to hosting the meeting on November 12 here at Park Street.  We have a very good line up of speakers:  Robert Hodges has done an outstanding job planting  South Creek Baptist Church.  God has blessed in a tremendous way.  Gary Grey was long time Pastor of Park Crest  Baptist Church in Springfield  and is a former President of the Baptist Bible Fellowship.  Brian Brown is the pastor of Baypointe Church which he started six years ago.  Since they have started their church has also been a part of four other church plants.  These men will encourage you.  
10:00 Officers Meeting
11:00  Brian Brown
11:45 – Lunch
1:00 Business Meeting
1:20  Robert Hodges
2:00 Gary Grey

Nominations

If you have a nomination or if someone desires to be considered for an office please email me at pastor@parkstreetbaptist.net.  Offices  are:  chairman, vice chairman, regional reps, secretary, State Rep.  We will be voting on the new slate of officers in the December meeting in Jacksonville.   Everyone should take a turn being an officer for a year.