FLORIDA
Daily Commercial
Barbara Denman Special to the Daily Commercial
Regardless of the outcome of its appeal of a $12.5 million award to a man sexually abused in Lake County by a minister convicted of molestation in 2007, the Florida Baptist Convention will continue to plant new churches, one official said.
During a recent meeting at the Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center in Leesburg, the State Board of Missions heard about a new church being planted in Miami. Gary Yeldell, the convention’s attorney of record, also brought the board up to date about the jury award appeal.
The words of a child brought a personal perspective to the new Miami church when 5-year-old Jackson Allen took the microphone.
“We moved to Miami to tell people about Jesus,” the youngster told the board, “by planting a church called Christ Centered Church.”
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