Margaret Colson

ORLANDO, Fla. – First Orlando a multisite, multicultural church in Central Florida, has launched a new shared leadership model in which three senior pastors will share church oversight and collaborative governance.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Taylor Hatch, secretary of Florida’s Department of Children and Families, challenged hundreds of Florida Baptist pastors to “put on the armor of God” as they lead their churches to become partners in statewide efforts to serve the vulnerable.

David Coggins, Florida Baptists’ Disaster Relief director, has accepted an invitation to join the program committee for the 40th annual Governor’s Hurricane Conference to be held May 10-15, 2026, in West Palm Beach.

MIAMI – Following news reports of a “personal dispute” between two crew members of Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas–resulting in the death of one crew member and injuries to the other crew member–the International Seafarers Ministry of Miami has stepped up to offer pastoral support, crisis care, and compassionate presence to crew members impacted by the tragedy.

ORLANDO, Fla. – “I would say for him, we have nothing but forgiveness … love … a hope that his life has a better quality and one day he’ll come to know Jesus."

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) – Together. That’s how Florida Baptist Disaster Relief responds to disasters. In the aftermath of heartbreaking crisis, FBDR serves alongside numerous partners to deliver the hope of the Gospel to those who need it the most.

TAMPA, Fla. (BP) –“Everything utterly destroyed–furniture, seats, resources.” That’s how Pastor Rafael Sanchez described the newly renovated church building of Tampa’s Iglesia Bautista Bethel, flooded with more than two feet of water after Hurricane Milton unleashed its fury Oct. 9.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Following the April 4 retirement announcement of Tommy Green, who has served as Florida Baptists’ executive director-treasurer since June 2015, Aaron Burgner, president of the Florida Baptist State Board of Missions, has appointed a nine-member team to begin the search process to name a new executive director-treasurer for the Florida Baptist Convention.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Tommy Green has announced his retirement after serving Florida Baptists as executive director-treasurer since June 2015.

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) -- The Florida Baptist Convention (FBC) "is a model in forwarding as much as possible through the Cooperative Program (CP) to encourage the forwarding of the Gospel to places the Gospel has never been before," said Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). The FBC sends 51 percent of annual financial receipts from its member churches through the SBC Cooperative Program (CP) as it retains 49 percent in the state. The decision to move to the 51/49 percent model was made by messengers at the 2015 Florida Baptist State Convention annual meeting in Panama City.