Karen L. Willoughby

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Chinese Baptist Fellowship of the United States and Canada’s dinner Tuesday evening, June 9, at First Baptist Church of Orlando was a precursor for members of their biennial meeting set for September in Texas.

NICEVILLE, Fla. – The Church on Bayshore has grown from 500 in Sunday morning worship to more than 1,300 since James Ross was called as pastor in 2017. The reason for the growth, Ross says, is because the church shifted its focus to young families, and the church’s senior adults have supported that change.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Two items of business at the Korean Council’s annual meeting that could have resulted in a great deal of discussion instead drew little because of previous conversations at the local and regional levels.

ORLANDO, Fla. – In a sermon at the 55th anniversary celebration of the Filipino Southern Baptist Fellowship of North America, Florida Baptists’ executive director, Stephen Rummage, described Jesus’ strategy.

ORLANDO (BP) – The Fellowship of Native American Christians – FoNAC – “enlarges their tent” by partnering with like-minded groups that want to reach the Native American and First Nations people of North America with the Gospel of God’s unconditional love. 

ORLANDO, Fla. – “This is a very powerful tool,” Victor Chayasirisobhon gushed Wednesday morning, June 10, at an hour-long meeting of the Ethnic Research Network. “This is going to save me hours and hours – if not days! – of work.”

ORLANDO (BP) – Florida Pastor Willy Rice was elected president of the Southern Baptist President during the Tuesday, June 9, afternoon session of the 2026 SBC annual meeting at the Orange County Convention Center.

ORLANDO (BP) – Velma Chen of Coral Springs, Fla., squealed in amazement. She’d happened to sit at the same table as Gideon Lee of Milpitas, Calif. The two, who had known each other as teenage members of the same church in Hong Kong, met again at the Asian NextGen Pastors Network annual meeting June 8 at the Orange County Convention Center, which took place in the days preceding the SBC annual meeting.

ORLANDO, Fla. – At one point during Bishop A.B. Vines’ message, he had his more than 200 listeners join hands in a double-room-size circle. Vines – identifying himself as “disunity,” he said, – failed to break through peoples’ arms in several places around the room because everyone in the circle was intentional in keeping him out, he explained.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Richard Blackaby suggests pairing what he calls “godly habits” with daily routines.