I had the opportunity to teach at the Florida Baptist Pastor’s Conference held at Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, FL. It was a great opportunity to connect with so many pastors and church leaders, many of whom have been my friends for many years.
Before my breakout session, I sat through an early morning session with Pastor Ken Whitten of Idlewild Baptist Church in the Tampa Area. Ken has an incredible passion about the need for churches to rethink men’s ministry. The thoughts are still fresh in my mind and I look forward to fleshing them out in the days ahead. I welcome your comments on this.
One of the most encouraging parts of the conference was to see those whom our ministry has impacted over the years. I talked with Terry Yerby, who was a teacher in our academy and deacon in our church, and is now the pastor at First Baptist Church of Bryceville, Fl. I also spent some time with Paul Daniels, former Trinity member, who during one of our world missions' conferences, surrendered to God’s clear calling on his life to enter ministry. After doing graduate work, he took the pastorate at Flemington Baptist Church in the Ocala area. I reconnected with George Smith, who taught on our academy faculty in the 1980s, and is now pastor at First Baptist Church of Lloyd, Fl. Part of the music for the conference was led by recent Trinity Baptist College graduate, Justin McLaughlin, of First Baptist Church of Central Florida.
I never take for granted the privilege it is for our church to have influence on helping prepare people for life and ministry.
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