What’s going on in the Church.
Our Budget & Finance Committee has finished working on our 2018 budget. On Wednesday, March 21, 2018, at 7pm we will discuss and vote on this Proposed Budget. Our 2017 budget was $434,672.72 and our 2018 proposed budget is $444,574.90. Our 2018 budget is an increase of $9,902.18 which is a Read more…
Obituary of Linda Cochran Linda M. Cochran, age 98, of LaBelle, passed away March 6, 2018, in the Oakbrook Nursing Home, LaBelle. Linda was born September 27, 1919, in Youngstown, OH to the late Luther Evans and Gwendolyn (Jones) Evans. She moved to Miami, Florida as a young girl. Later Read more…
Preston’s Mom passed away on Tuesday, February 27, 2018, in LaBelle. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 10, 2018, at 11:00 am at Don’s Steak House, 93 Hall St., LaBelle, FL 33935. You are invited to this celebration of life. Memorial donations may be made in memory Read more…
Check out our new Wednesday Night Supper Rotation. Dinner starts at 6pm and $5 for adults, $4 for children and $15 for the family. Sign up each Sunday in the foyer of the sanctuary and call the church office on Mondays to make your reservation (863) 675-2171, press 1 First Baptist Church_Feb Read more…
Joseph Jay Samuel Wilson, Jr, 85, went home to be with our Lord on Friday, February 9, 2018, in Troy, Alabama. Jay was born August 5, 1932, to Joseph Sr and Mattie Pearl (Davidson) Wilson in LaBelle, Florida, where he lived for 78 years of his life. Jay was a Read more…
On Sunday, February 11th at our 106th Anniversary, we took our a special offering to pay off a long-term bond of $14,500 plus compound interest. We collected $5,100 to go towards paying our longest term bond. We still need individuals who would be willing to give to the ‘Long-Term Bond’ Read more…
Sunday, February 11, 2018, we celebrated our 106th church anniversary and Celebrated the amount that was pledged to our Future Is Now Campaign for Debt Reduction of our Education Building. We collected 37 pledges that total $111,365 for a year. On Sunday, March 4, 2018, is First Fruits Sunday. This Read more…
On Sunday, February 11, 2018, we will be observing our 106 church anniversary and celebrate the result of our “Facing the Future” Stewardship Campaign on our Education Building. Our Schedule for this Sunday, February 11, 2018, is no 8:30am service. Continental Breakfast in the church social hall from 9 am to 9:45 Read more…
God has truly been blessing us in this campaign to raise awareness of the financial needs of our education building. In 2008 we took a step of faith in building an 8810 square feet of education space. Before we were done God brought us a Daycare -Preschool which today we have around Read more…
We have a very important Work Day scheduled for Saturday, February 3rd at our church. We hope to get some of our hurricane damage repair and several other things. We want to do some soffit and facia work in the education building, we have a lot of yard work that needs to Read more…