Posts with the category “from-the-pastor”

On Behalf of the DeaconsDear Winter Park Family, Our church has numerous balls in the air, as it should be with a vibrant and healthy congregation. In fact, to prevent me from dropping a ball, I have ...  Read More

Dear Winter Park Family, One of my early challenges is discernment. How soon in my journey with you as pastor do I introduce ideas for change? I have heard for years that you do not touch the office f...  Read More

Your Food is on the WayDear Winter Park Family, During the early months of our marriage, Lou Ann and I worked for Satterfield’s restaurant in Shelby, NC. No longer in business, Satterfield’s was a fin...  Read More

Dear Winter Park Family,I look forward to our pastor installation service this Sunday, August 13 with much anticipation. Here’s why! It is important and right to mark significant occurrences in the li...  Read More

Dear Winter Park Family,I am pleased that our congregation is enthusiastic about Wednesday night Bible study. As we prepare to gather for the first time on Wednesday night as pastor and congregation, ...  Read More

An Early Pastoral PrayerEver-present God – I offer You thanksgiving for the opening weeks of my tenure as pastor to Winter Park Baptist Church. On the one hand, the first days have been a flurry of ac...  Read More

Dear Winter Park Family,Two questions have regularly come my way over the past three weeks or so. People are interested to know what Bible translation I use when preaching and people want to know why ...  Read More

Dear Winter Park Family, I sense strongly that we are off to a good start. Please be patient with me as I learn names. It will take a while. However, I can already correctly match quite a few names wi...  Read More

Last Sunday (7-2-2023), we began our time together as senior pastor and congregation with anexamination of Acts 2:42-47. I suggested that our congregation should do now as the earlyChristians did then...  Read More

 Dear Winter Park Family,Lou Ann and I look forward to our arrival in Wilmington this week. Even so, I have enjoyed our long-distance relationship over the past month or so. I have done my best to res...  Read More

from June 14th, 2023......  Read More

Dear Winter Park Family,Last week I shared my conviction that gathered worship is the axis upon which all productivechurch activity revolves. Indeed, it is the worship of the God, revealed to us in th...  Read More