ANNUAL REPORT
2015
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CBF Churches in Florida and Caribbean
CBF-Endorsed Chaplains in Florida
Ministerial Scholarship Students
Cover photo: Some of the women at Amani Sasa, the ministry center in Kampala, Uganda, express their gratitude for the partnerships that make their ministry with Missy Ward Angala possible. (See page 8 for more on Missy’s ministry.)
Adjacent photo: CBF Florida Coordinator, Ray Johnson, celebrates with Maykel Bruffau, the president of the Fraternity of Baptist Churches in Cuba, as they sign a covenant to partner together in mission and ministry.
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God can do anything, you know — far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! Ephesians 3:20 (The Message)
TABLE OF CONTENTS Touching Miami with Love
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Micah Center
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Church Starts
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Karen Alford
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Missy Ward Angalla
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The Bahamas
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Cuba
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Young Baptist Ecosystem
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Rachel Gunter Shapard
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Ray Johnson
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Statement of Financial Position
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Statement of Activities
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Leadership & Volunteers
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The story of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Florida is truthfully a collection of thousands of stories. This annual report narrates some of the stories that happened during the past year, 2015. You’ll notice that many of the stories are told with pictures; there is something about the old saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Other stories let the letters on the page speak. Still other stories are told through numbers and charts and symbols. Regardless of the means by which you see and hear the stories of Florida’s and the Caribbean Islands’ Cooperative Baptists, one character that is common to all of the stories is . . . you! You — whether through your prayers, your volunteer service, or your financial gifts — enabled lives to be transformed, which after all is what a good story is all about. The inspiration behind the stories, as we know, is the Spirit of Christ. You have prayed and gone and given so that someone could be the presence of Christ for someone who needed him. For your part in the story, we say thank you!
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OVERTOWN
TOUCHING MIAMI WITH LOVE At the start of 2015, CBF Florida’s two south Florida ministry partners, Touching Miami with Love and Open House Ministries, merged into a single organization with two sites. The merger allowed TML to enlarge its capacity to serve the children and families of Overtown and west Homestead. Thanks to you, CBF Florida is able to maintain and donate the two ministry center buildings to TML so that the children of Overtown and west Homestead have a safe place to experience God’s grace.
100% high school graduation rate in 2015
JUSTIN’S STORY* Building bridges to a brighter future In 2013, Jason Pittman, the Executive Director of Touching Miami with Love, began a program to support parents in their effort to raise great kids by building bridges between the student, TML, the school, and the family. The program is called, rightly enough, Bridges. Through Bridges, TML provides counseling sessions for the students and parents, social skills development, and collaborative interventions in conjunction with the student’s family and school. Justin (not his real name) is a third grader at TML’s Overtown site. When he first came to the center, he struggled with aggression and hyperactivity; he had no interest in school and he was failing most of his classes. Kristina, the Bridges program director, and the rest of the TML staff began to work with Justin. Kristina began counseling sessions with him. The staff worked with Justin’s mom to get him enrolled in a school more appropriately suited his needs. Now Justin is beginning to make excellent progress.
Recently, Justin hurried off of the bus that brings children from their schools to TML. He rushed into the office area to share his grades with all of the staff. Justin had received all A’s and B’s. When you think of providing a safe place to encounter God’s grace, think of Justin.
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WEST HOMESTEAD
TOUCHING MIAMI WITH LOVE MARTIN’S STORY Volunteers matter Richard Smith taught Martin, when he was just a second grader, to play chess. Eric Crowley inspired him with his exuberance and compassion for all of the kids at the ministry center. Grandpa Stu, a member of South Venice Baptist Church, sat on the back of his pickup truck and talked to Martin about how to find the right woman for a wife. If you ask Martin, he would tell you that for the first few years that he came to the west Homestead Center, known then as Open House Ministries (OHM), he wasn’t really interested in “all that God stuff.” But the love of the volunteers and the love of Wanda Ashworth Valencia began to chip away at Martin’s defenses. Then during the ministry center’s spring retreat in 2009, Martin had what can only be described as a Damascus Road experience. His life changed so dramatically that he became a leader at the ministry center. Today, Martin is studying at Miami-Dade College and he is a full-time staff member at TML’s west Homestead site. Martin is part of the legacy that CBF Florida celebrates.
$1.1 Million Given to Touching Miami with Love in Homestead and Overtown Over
25 years
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ST. PETERSBURG
MICAH CENTER A SCHOOL SYSTEM’S STORY Raising hope by raising childhood literacy
5 The number of Florida’s five worst performing elementary schools in southern Pinellas County.
“Man-made disaster” and “education malpractice” are not the phrases that you’d like to describe the school system to which your children go. That, however, is exactly how the elementary schools of southern Pinellas County have been described by the US Secretary of Education. The five worst performing elementary schools in the state of Florida are all in southern Pinellas, and the district leads the state in the number of student arrests. Working with the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Pinellas Country School Board’s Committee on School Discipline and Student Behavior, Phil Miller-Evans, the Executive Director of Micah Center, has been part of a collaborative effort to address the “school-to-jail pipeline” that has brought so much notoriety to the school district. Recently, a teacher from one of the "five failure factory schools" reached out to the Micah Center. She had heard about the Center’s summer literacy program. After expressing her frustration with the programs offered by the school system, she said that she wanted to recommend Micah Center Summer Literacy Camp to the families of her students. As evidence of the success of the program, another mother, whose child attends Micah Center's Afterschool Literacy Program, called to tell Phil that her child had passed her "portfolio" for the first time that year. That huge success offered great hope to this young mother and her child. Your donations to CBF Florida’s 2015 Annual Missions Offering helped Micah Center serve the students in south Pinellas County grow in wisdom, certainly a Kingdom of God quality.
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THE VILLAGES
NEW CHURCHES BROWNWOOD’S STORY Between Friends and Backpacks Ask anyone who has ever tried to start a new church and you’ll soon discover that it’s not easy. Building a cohesive core group, securing the necessary funding, finding musicians and purchasing sound equipment, locating a place to worship – these are just some of the tasks that a church planter must undertake, often before the very first worship service is ever held. Since its inception, Brownwood Baptist Church, CBF Florida’s newest church, set out on a course that included community mission as a key ingredient in its approach to being the church. The church’s pastor, Donn Poole, was committed to leading the church to make a positive impact upon the neighborhood. So within the first eighteen months of the church’s first worship service, the new church, barely 30 members, collected more than $20,000 so that the children of the local elementary school could each have a new backpack filled with the necessary school supplies. The second year of the backpack drive was so successful that packs were also given to the local middle school and to children at the Micah Center in St. Petersburg. Katherine Poole, Donn’s wife, has also begun a weekday support group for cancer survivors, called Between Friends. The group, according to Katherine, is “a place to bond while sharing during a difficult time.” As with so much of ministry, God often calls us to minister through our own experiences. That’s why this ministry is personal to Katherine whose father and younger brother were both victims of cancer. Brownwood Baptist Church is one of three churches that CBF Florida started in partnership with CBF Global in order to provide places of worship that reflect the values of Cooperative Baptists and model the diversity of our state and of the Kingdom of God. Gifts to CBF Florida and to CBF Florida’s Annual Mission Offering help provide support to our church starters in their often challenging work.
More than
$190,000 given to 3 church starts in 6 years
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MENTAWAI ISLANDS, INDONESIA
KAREN ALFORD KAREN’S STORY Practicing the presence of Christ as a Nurse Practitioner Karen’s story crosses the United States and two oceans. She began her life in Oregon. After college, she moved to Morocco where she worked with the Peace Corps. When she finished her Peace Corps assignment, she decided that she wanted to serve the people of Morocco, rather than their livestock. So she returned to the US to study nursing in Tampa.
$14,000+ Given for Karen’s ministry since 2012
Through her aunt and uncle in Tampa, she found Bayshore Baptist Church and Bayshore immediately took her under its wings. In 2007, Karen was commissioned as a missionary to Indonesia, after she could not gain re-entry to Morocco. For several years she provided medical care to Indonesians who lived along the Musi River on the island of Sumatra. In fact, her home was on a large medical boat that plied the waters of the river.
Following the earthquake and tsunami of 2010, Karen moved to Sikakap on one of four islands in the Mentawai chain on the western edge of Indonesia. Initially, she worked to provide medical care to the hundreds of islanders whose lives were devastated by the tsunami. It soon became clear to Karen that what the islanders needed was more than just “first aid.” They needed long-term healthcare and health training. Karen has spent the last three to four years not only providing direct medical care to the people of Mentawai, but also training local and national healthcare workers. She teaches local families about clean water, basic nutrition, literacy. For the past four years, CBF Florida has been a partner with Bayshore Baptist Church, Karen’s primary source of financial support, to ensure that Karen’s life and project needs have been covered.
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KAMPALA, UGANDA
MISSY WARD ANGALLA HANNAH’S STORY Finding Grace for Hannah Hannah arrived in Uganda from Somalia when she was 16 years old. Upon arrival, she was reunited with her sister whom she had not seen in several years. During the year before she arrived, Hannah’s mother was killed in front of her in Somalia. At the age of 15, she was taken captive by a rebel soldier and abused. When Hannah became pregnant as a result of the rapes, she was thrown out onto the streets. As a young homeless mom, she gave birth to her son in the middle of a war-torn city. Her son only lived a few months. Hannah arrived in Uganda one month after he died. She was extremely traumatized and without hope. Missy worked with Hannah to provide her the emergency medical care, counseling and tutoring that she needed. She began attending classes and youth programs at the center. Hannah was then invited to attend the center’s shelter program in the spring of 2014. At the shelter, she continued the process of healing and learning about herself. She learned that she was not defined by what had been done to her. She learned that she was a cherished child of God. Hannah was empowered with leadership and discipleship skills. She is now continuing her dream to be a leader and teacher. She was recently selected to receive a scholarship for a music education certificate at a local Christian university. God is doing an amazing work in the life of Hannah and her family.
ZERO The percentage of your gift to Missy that goes to administration
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DISASTER RESPONSE
THE BAHAMAS NEW EBENEZER’S STORY “I saw love flown to me” For 36 hours across the first weekend of October 2015, a category 4 Hurricane Joaquin sat over some of the small family islands of the southern Bahamas. One of those islands, Acklins Island, is home to CBF pastor Rufus Forbes, his wife Marcia, and the New Ebenezer Church in Selina Point. Over the next three weeks, Acklins Island was isolated from the rest of the world. CBF Florida waited anxiously to hear from the church. Working with the National Emergency Management Agency of the Bahamas and Eagles’ Wings Ministries, CBF Florida’s Coordinator was able to purchase a portable water purification unit and have it flown to Acklins Island for the people of Selina Point. The funds for the purchase were all donated by Florida’s Cooperative Baptists. A week later, Rachel Shapard traveled to Grand Bahama to discuss mission projects with leaders from the six CBF churches in the Bahamas. To her surprise, she was greeted by pastor Forbes and his wife, who had managed to get a flight out of Acklins to come to St. Cleveland Baptist Church about 30 minutes east of Freeport. When Rev. Forbes stood up to preach that evening at St. Cleveland, he said memorably, “I saw love flown to me, and it bore the letters C-B-F.” Over the years, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Florida has collected and distributed approximately a quarter of a million dollars to provide relief around the state of Florida, the Caribbean Islands, and around the world.
200 people Provided safe drinking water after Hurricane Joaquin by
1 portable water purification unit
Materials delivered to New Ebenezer Baptist Church on Acklins Island, Bahamas, await work crews to begin rebuilding efforts on church building.
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EASTERN CUBA BAPTIST CONVENTION
CUBA ISNEY’S STORY
40 Concrete floors poured in Cuban homes thru CBF Florida gifts
From a floor to faith Isney lives in Mesa Abajo de Sabana in Maisí, Cuba, with his wife and their three children. The family’s home is by any standard, even Cuban standards, a very modest home: wood siding, framed screen-less and pane-less windows, an old tin roof, termites, and a dirt floor. Florida’s Cooperative Baptists have had a covenant agreement with the Eastern Cuba Baptist Convention (ECBC) since 2008. The covenant has made it possible for CBF Florida to send mission teams and dollars into the country to help the ECBC’s more than 500 churches and 800 mission churches.
The funds have been used in the past to purchase bicycles for more than 20 mission pastors who have no other means of transportation from their homes in remote barrios to their small congregations. It’s expected of every ECBC church to start mission churches. Other funds have been used to provide relief following Hurricane Sandy, and still other funds have helped to dig wells outside of Guantanamo. And recently CBF Florida has given to help families, like Isney’s, convert their dirt floors to concrete. A single home can have its entire floor poured for around $150, and CBF Florida, in partnership with La Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana of Deltona, has helped pour concrete floors for nearly 40 families. Isney was not a follower of Christ when the church came to his door and offered to improve his family’s living conditions. He was so struck by the generosity and the love of the church that he along with his wife have become followers of Jesus. That’s what a floor built on faith can accomplish.
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YOUNG BAPTIST ECOSYSTEM
STETSON’S BAPTIST COLLEGIATE FELLOWSHIP THE STORY OF 3 HOUSES AND 25 STUDENTS Building bridges by building homes Stetson University’s Baptist Collegiate Fellowship (BCF) does not go to Daytona Beach or Panama City to party during their spring break. They do travel, but they travel with a mission to do good and to be the presence of Christ. This past year BCF’s director, Rachel Jeyaseelan, drove the team of 25 students to Greenville, SC, where they partnered with the First Baptist Church of Greenville and volunteers of Rebuild Upstate, a local non-profit, to rebuild and repair three homes.
$23,000+ Given thru CBF FL to Stetson’s BCF in 2015
One team of students put a new aluminum roof on a home. After the roof had been finished, it rained during the night. For the family who owned the home, it was the first time in many months, they said, that the rain had not poured into their home. A second team renovated an elderly woman’s home that was riddled with mold, without running water, and that had holes in the walls and ceilings. The students rolled up their sleeves, demolished walls, hung sheetrock, and repaired the holes throughout the house. On their final day of service, they moved in an oven and cooktop, giving the woman a functional kitchen. A third team of students gave the home of a retired teacher a fresh coat of paint. They brought in new appliances and, as a result of this ministry, the teacher able to move into her home two weeks early. In addition to providing administrative support, CBF Florida sends a portion of its Annual Missions Offering to Stetson’s BCF to assist in events like its Spring Mission Trip.
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YOUNG BAPTIST ECOSYSTEM
MINISTERIAL SCHOLARSHIPS CLAIRE’S STORY It takes a Fellowship “It is hard to imagine where I would be now without the support of CBF Florida,” says Claire Kermitz Chinn, one of nine CBF Florida scholarship recipients in 2015. Claire’s family found Hendricks Avenue Baptist (HAB) and knew it was a special place. Her parents taught her about her family that, “We know good people.” And, she says, “HAB is filled with good people that have always seen the best me.” Between HAB and CBF Florida, Claire was given countless opportunities to succeed. After graduating from college, she spent a year exploring her call to ministry. She spent time as a student intern with Student.Go (pronounced “Student-Dot-Go), a CBF Global young Baptist program. As a Student.Go intern, Claire was assigned to Touching Miami with Love for a summer. Following that, she spent a year working with Susan Rogers, the founding pastor of The Well in Springfield. Susan, by the way, was CBF Florida’s first “strategic” church planter.
$8,515 for 9 CBF FL Scholars in 2015
Claire’s ministry at TML and The Well confirmed her calling to ministry. Her hometown faith community, HAB, affirmed that calling and encouraged her to prepare for ministry at seminary. Claire chose to attend McAfee School of Theology, a CBF partner school in Atlanta. Although she left Florida to attend seminary in Georgia, Claire is clear that CBF Florida’s support did not stop when she packed her bags for McAfee. In her own words, she says it best: “Investing in my future meant more than a scholarship check each semester from CBF Florida. It meant that the thousands of congregants at all CBF Florida churches said. ‘I believe in you.’” From beginning to end, it takes a Fellowship to call, equip, and send the next generation of young Baptist leaders.
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PEER LEARNING GROUPS
RACHEL GUNTER SHAPARD DAVID’S STORY Grace and Growth in Peer Learning Groups One of the many responsibilities of Rachel Shapard, CBF Florida’s Associate Coordinator, has been to facilitate a peer learning group for pastors, chaplains, and educational ministers in the Jacksonville area. Under her guidance and leadership, the Jacksonville Peer Learning Group formed in January 2015. The group has become a place of grace for eight ministers from Jacksonville, Orange Park, and St. Augustine. David, a palliative care chaplain with Baptist Health, is among those who joined the group. His life’s story includes a less-than-desirable exit from local church ministry, but he has found a vocational home in chaplaincy. Peer Learning Groups (PLG) offer pastors and other ministers a safe place to process the challenges of ministry, a place to avoid the dangers of isolation, a place of grace and growth. That is exactly what David found with the group in Jacksonville. Through the Jacksonville area PLG, David was introduced to the pastor of The Well at Springfield, Susan Rogers. The Well, one of four CBF Florida strategic church starts, is now David's church, and he and his wife Sara regularly lead the music in worship. Then in 2015 David was endorsed as a CBF chaplain. He has found a true home in this Denomi-Network, as Suzii Paynter has referred to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The Jacksonville PLG and The Well at Springfield are two rooms in his newfound spiritual home. David’s past hardships in ministry are being transformed into beautiful experiences where he is blessed by being a blessing.
30 clergy in
3 Peer Learning Groups
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CALLED TO BE THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST
RAY JOHNSON CBF FLORIDA’S STORY Celebrating Twenty-Five Years Cooperative Baptists in Florida were conceived in November 1990 but they didn’t receive their birth certificate until March 1991. For 25 years, Florida’s Cooperative Baptists have been serving and celebrating together – here in Florida, around the Caribbean, and throughout the world. Our story includes chapters set in south Florida following Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Out of that disaster, Pat Anderson, CBF Florida’s Coordinator at the time, envisioned a ministry center and long-term presence in Homestead. That vision produced Open House Ministry center. Shortly after that, CBF Florida purchased a building in downtown Miami and began a partnership with CBF Global to serve the diverse population of urban Miami. That ministry center became Touching Miami with Love, which has now merged with Open House to form a single ministry with two locations. From ministerial scholarships to Passport Mission Camps, Floridians were instrumental in helping secure the next generation of Baptist leaders. Without a doubt, a part of the enduring legacy of Carolyn Anderson, the second coordinator of CBF Florida, will be the future generations of Cooperative Baptists. Carolyn, who still serves on the Passport Board of Directors, set out “to help prepare a new generation of leaders for the CBF movement in our state . . . who will tell the story of God’s grace through CBF.” Throughout the years our story has been told in English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, and Portuguese. The themes of our story have included racial reconciliation, separation of church and state, freedom of the local church, God’s calling of God’s sons and daughters to all forms of ministry. Our story includes hundreds of characters who have given sacrificially and scores of churches with whom we have shared ministry. We have provided scholarships to more than 50 ministerial students; missionaries have been called both from our churches and to our state. What can best sum up CBF Florida’s story are the words of one of its true characters, Bud Strawn, who passed away in May of 2105: “What a Fellowship!”
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted
Total 2015
ASSETS CURRENT ASSETS Cash Other Total Current Assets PROPERTY & EQUIPMENT, net INVESTMENTS
TOTAL ASSETS
$69,311 500
---
$69,311 500
69,811
--
69,811
1,051,437
--
1,051,437
265,881
125,701
391,582
$1,387,129
$125,701
$1,512,830
$1
--
$1
335,691
--
335,691
1,051,437 1,387,128 -1,387,128
--125,701 125,701
1,051,431 1,387,128 125,701 1,512,829
$1,387,129
$125,701
$1,512,830
LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS LIABILITIES NET ASSETS Unrestricted Undesignated Net investment in property and equipment* Total Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Total Net Assets
TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS
*Includes properties and equipment at Touching Miami with Love (Overtown and West Homestead sites), as well as 217 Hillcrest Street in Lakeland.
$728 Average individual donation in 2015
$6,300 Average church contributions in 2015
$29,600 Given to CBF Florida’s Annual Missions Offering
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted
Total 2015
SUPPORT & REVENUE Contributions Investment Income Realized Unrealized Events, meetings, other
TOTAL SUPPORT & REVENUE
$315,190
$342,430
24,502 (29,739) 6,686
316,639
$657,620 24,287 (29,739) 6,686
342,430
659,069
$102,800 Given to CBF Global in 2015 by CBF FL churches
EXPENSES Program New Church Starts South Florida Missions Fellowship Meetings/ Promotions Missions & Ministry Total Programs Supporting Services Management & General Fundraising Total Supporting Services
TOTAL EXPENSES CHANGE IN NET ASSETS NET ASSETS (START OF YEAR) NET ASSETS (END OF YEAR)
58,900 106,348 100,541
267,789
58,900 106,348 100,541 289,181 289,181
73,549 47,571 121,120
554,970
$1,325,400 Foundation investments for CBF FL missions
73,549 47,571 121,120
386,909
289,181
676,090
$(70,270) 1,457,398 $1,387,128
$53,249 72,452 $125,701
$(17,021) 1,529,850 $1,512,829
$138,600 Given to all mission causes in 2015
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2015 REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLY
LEADERSHIP & VOLUNTEERS Suzii Paynter, the Executive Coordinator of CBF Global, has described CBF as a “denominetwork.” We’re not just a denomination and we’re not just a network. We’re both. A part of what that means is that CBF Florida depends upon a network of supporters and volunteers to make possible the stories in this report. Lives are being transformed; communities are being healed; the Good News of Jesus is finding its way into the hearts and minds of the next generation. How? Through the support and work of a network of hundreds of volunteers. One team of volunteers gives their time and talent to help guide the work of Florida’s Cooperative Baptists: our Representative Assembly. They come from the far flung corners of the state – from Pensacola and Miami, from Jacksonville and St. Petersburg – to do good for God’s Kingdom. For their service and sacrifice, we are grateful. OFFICERS Ramona Reynolds-Netto (Moderator) Ken Boutwell (Moderator-Elect) Rubén Ortiz (Past Moderator) Ron Rooks (Treasurer) Gary McCall (Recording Secretary) Christi Matteson (Nominating Committee Chairperson)
DISTRICT 1 (PANHANDLE) Ned Couey (Pensacola) Hazel Rosser (Tallahassee) Clint Akins (Ft. Walton Beach) Jennifer Hendrix (Tallahassee) Andy Creel (Monticello)
DISTRICT 2 (NORTHEAST) Kevin Collison (Orange Park) Laurie McDonald (Neptune Beach) Thomas Sanders (The Villages) Lynn Williams (Gainesville)
DISTRICT 3 (EAST CENTRAL) David Medley (Apopka) Bob Mulkey (DeLand) Don Pratt (Grand Island) Garth Jenkins (DeLand) Sally Rivera (DeLand)
DISTRICT 4 (WEST CENTRAL) Lyn Payne (Sebring) Paula James (Seminole) Allan Bendert (Palm Harbor) Aubrey Smith (Tampa) Phil Miller-Evans (St. Petersburg)
DISTRICT 5 (SOUTH) Allan Mitchell (Venice) Barbara Briggs (Venice) Ouida Wyatt (Vero Beach)
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THANK YOU, DONORS
LEADERSHIP & VOLUNTEERS CHURCHES Bayshore Baptist Church (Tampa) Bluewater Community Church (Niceville) Brownwood Baptist Church (The Villages) Central Baptist Church (Daytona Beach) Christ Journey Church (Coral Gables) Church In The Meadows (Lakeland) Church of the Beatitudes (St. Petersburg) Church on the Drive: A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (Orlando) CityGate Ministries (Fort Myers) Deermeadows Baptist Church (Jacksonville) Destiny Ministries, Inc. (Orange Park) East Hill Baptist Church (Tallahassee) Ebenezer Baptist Church (Monticello) Emmanuel Community Church (Palm Harbor) First Baptist Church (Cocoa) First Baptist Church (DeLand) First Baptist Church (Gainesville) First Baptist Church (Pensacola) First Baptist Church (Sarasota) First Baptist Church (St. Petersburg) First Baptist Church (Tallahassee) First Baptist Church (Vero Beach) Hammock Community Church (Palm Coast) Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church (Jacksonville) Iglesia Bautista de Metrópolis (San Juan, Puerto Rico) Iglesia Bautista Sarón (Miami) Island View Baptist Church (Orange Park) La Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana (Deltona) New Covenant Baptist Church (Deland) New Hope Baptist Church (Port Orange) North Stuart Baptist Church (Stuart) Ocala Palms Worship Community (Ocala)
Parkview Baptist Church (Gainesville) Riverside Baptist Church (Jacksonville) South Venice Baptist Church (Venice) Tallahassee Fellowship (Tallahassee) The Church at Vilano (St. Augustine) The Well at Springfield (Jacksonville)
INDIVIDUALS Carolyn and Pat Anderson Phyllis and Ron Anderson Aaron Anderson Rod and Patricia L. Areford Doug and Jean Austin Jean Bass Robert and Sandra Bingman George and Sybil Borders Ken and Jean Boutwell Charlotte and Huey Bridgman Hal Burke Kevin Collison Dot and Lionel Cornell William and Mary Cotton Margaret and Ned Couey Lowry and Anita Daniels John and Phyllis Daugherty Everett DeHanas Gloria Devoto Robert and Laura Dietz Betty Donahue Dianne Forrest Asdrubal and Yarelis Forte Barbara and David Friedman Pat Grooms Bill and Kathy Gunter Jerry and Betty Hale Barbara and Al Hall Malcolm and Joyce Hanson Doug and Loraine Harrell Jennifer Hendrix Paula James Garth and Elmarie Jenkins Rachel Jeyaseelan Ray and Nena Johnson
Dan Lee Susi Lockard William and Donna Marr Nellie Martin Gary and Janice McCall Bruce and Candace McKibben Bob and Jan Moore Clifton and Ruby Moran James and Stephanie Neill Deena and Tom Newman Rubén and Xiomara Ortiz Jim and Joyce Page Julia Peacock Judy Pelham Carlos and Miriam Peralta David and Dianne Peterson Bettina Phagan Donn and Katherine Poole Hazel Rosser Rick and Aleida Ruano Winifred Sams Tom and Mary Lois Sanders Betty and Sam Schlegel Rachel and Tommy Shapard Bill and Kelly Shiell Shirley and Wade Smith Christine Smith Carolyn and Jim Strange Bud and Pat Strawn Madelyne Temoshchuk Heidi and James Unruh Teresa and Tim White Coralie Williams Jean and Troy Willingham Ouida Wyatt Jonathan Yost
Wanda Ashworth Valencia (left) visits with Sandra J., a supervisor at one of south Florida’s farms. Sandra’s family has been a part of Touching Miami with Love in Homestead for twelve years.
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Florida remembers with gratitude those friends and supporters who passed away during 2015. We celebrate their lives and remember their families, friends, and churches during their time of grief. Miriam Bissett (Sarasota) David Lockard (The Villages) Bob Casey (Gainesville) Julia Peacock (Crestview) Octavia Coker (Pensacola) Bud Strawn (St. Petersburg) George Hayes (Gainesville) Winifred Whitehurst (Tallahassee)
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Florida, Inc. Mailing Address: PO Box 2556, Lakeland, FL 33806 Physical Address: 217 Hillcrest Street, Lakeland, FL 33815 Telephone: 863.682.6802 Fax: 863.683.5797 Email: mail@floridacbf.org Website: http://floridacbf.org Follow us on Facebook® and Twitter® at @CBF_FL Visit CBF Florida online