Published on the Hudson Baptist Association’s www.HBANY.net
Tony Lomenzo was looking for a house. The volunteer firehouse found a pastor.
Such is life and God’s design for Stony Creek and other small towns in the Adirondacks.
Could God be calling you to a rural ministry in the Hudson Valley?
Tampa, FL is well-known for a lot of things. We have hosted some Super Bowls. We have fantastic sunshine, and some of the best beaches in the world.
What is maybe less known is how incredibly diverse the Tampa area is. With its very roots traced to Cuban cigar rollers and Italian immigrants, Tampa is called the Cigar City.
We are are also among the nation’s leaders in the number of strip clubs per capita, and plastic surgeries.
But did you know, Tampa is great need of healthy churches? As Pastor Ken Whitten of Idlewild Baptist Church in Tampa recently said, “Tampa is a city in the South, but it’s not even close to being a southern city where the gospel has been saturated.”
The Tampa Bay Baptist Association has a vision for doing just that; not so much making Tampa a southern city, but saturating it with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And the most effective way to accomplish that is through church planting.
Could God be calling you to help us plant new churches here. Could he be calling you to help us re-plant and revitalize churches here?
We hope you will watch the video (above) and contact us.
Special thanks to pastors Ken Whitten, Justin Perry, Bruce Moore, George Thomasson, Stephen Rummage, Joel Vicente, Quincy Stratford and Drew Tucker for their participation.
Produced by Boe Ellis of CERICDigital. Shot in March, 2014. We appreciate your comments below.
In partnership with the Tampa Bay Baptist Association, CERICDigital and Boe Ellis are pleased to announce today the release of a new church planting site at www.TampaBayChurchPlanting.com.
The project includes multiple videos, a new blog and a profile of target areas in Tampa.
Featured above is a 12-minute piece casting vision for the Association’s church planting churches initiative.
Our Association has a vision for Tampa becoming a prolific church planting hub that embraces the Great Commission by equipping and sending out church planters around the world (Acts 1:8).
We pray we can help you be a part of this vision.
A few of our pastors are praying and pressing ahead toward this vision. And it was our privilege earlier this year to sit down with a handful of these pastors to ask them to share some encouragements and insights.
Special thanks to Ken Whitten, Justin Perry, Bruce Moore, George Thomasson, Stephen Rummage, Joel Vicente, Quincy Stratford and Drew Tucker for their participation.
We are excited to present today this brief look into the least biblically-minded city in the U.S.: Providence, Rhode Island.
Our ministry exists to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and expand His church by supporting and equipping missionaries and serving them with excellent training and communications across multiple platforms.