Send South Florida

03/07/2026

We’re joining together in prayer and celebration for Church Planter Oscar Ortiz and his family as they plant Iglesia Bautista Esperanza Eterna in Río Grande, Puerto Rico. God is on the MOVE! Florida Baptist Convention North American Mission Board (NAMB) Send Network Send Network Español Send Network Florida

🇵🇷 WEEK OF PRAYER DAY 7
Meet Oscar and Wendy Ortiz
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico

🎉 Their church plant is small. But their vision is big. When Oscar Ortiz started Iglesia Bautista Esperanza Eterna in Río Grande, Puerto Rico, he knew one new church would not be enough.

🚨“Here, there are 46,000 people and almost no gospel witness,” Oscar says. “We can’t wait until we have lots of people and resources. We need to plant more churches now.”

⚠️ Fortunately, Oscar and his wife, Wendy, have help. Send Relief, Southern Baptists’ compassion ministry arm, is sending volunteer mission teams to Loíza, a needy community where Oscar and Wendy hope to plant another new work. “Loíza is a spiritually dark place,” Wendy says, “but by serving the community, Send Relief is helping open doors for us there. They’re repairing homes and enabling us to build witnessing relationships.”

⛪ Now, a foundation is being laid for what will one day be a new church in Loíza. “We want to be a church plant that plants churches,” Oscar says. “And even though we’re small, now we’re seeing how God is able to do so much more with us than we can imagine.”

➡️ PRAY FOR:
📌 Send Relief teams to connect Oscar and Wendy to more people in Loíza who are open to hearing the gospel.
📌 God to raise up leaders in the church plant who can help start and grow a new work in Loíza.
📌 Doors to open in other nearby communities that need a gospel presence.

03/06/2026

Wow! I love these Kingdom stories!

‼️ WEEK OF PRAYER DAY 6
Meet Leon and Javon Every
Marrero, Louisiana

🚗 It was the parking lot that got their attention. Leon and Javon Every had been driving by the Baptist church on Ames Boulevard for years, but they’d never seen anything momentous happening there.

It wasn’t until one morning when they noticed a suddenly packed parking lot that their curiosity got the better of them.

“Out of the blue,” Javon says, “we said, ‘We should go to that church.’ So the next Sunday, we went. And the rest is history.”

✨ That new life at an old church was the result of God calling church planting missionaries Troy and Chanel Gause. They joined with the struggling congregation of what had been Ames Boulevard Baptist Church, and together, they birthed Cross Community Church to reach people like the Everys.

“The Everys were unchurched,” Troy says. “We got to know them and learned that even though they’d been together for 35 years, they weren’t married.”

💍 “They gave us a beautiful wedding, and we kept going back every Sunday,” Javon says.

“We brought our family, and seven of our kids and grandkids got saved. It’s amazing. I always wanted us all to follow Jesus, and this new church—this is how it happened.”

➡️ PRAY FOR:

📌 More of Leon and Javon’s family to hear the gospel and give their lives to Christ.
📌 God to draw more unchurched families from the surrounding community to the new church.
📌 Troy and Chanel to continue to faithfully represent Christ and His kingdom.

03/06/2026

God is on the Move!!

✨ WEEK OF PRAYER DAY 5
Troy and Chanel Gause
Marrero, Louisiana

👉 Church business meetings are not normally fertile ground for happy accidents. But Ames Boulevard Baptist Church’s tiny remnant of elderly members unintentionally set a miracle in motion when they voted to hire Troy Gause to mow their grass.

🌱 “That’s how I got to know the church,” Troy says. “I started taking care of their property and learned how they’d dwindled down to just a few faithful members. They were probably just a couple months away from closing their doors.”

⛪ When longtime Ames members like Linda Morrow realized “Troy Gause, Landscaper” was also “Troy Gause, Church Planting Missionary,” they began to pray. “He’d just started a church but needed a place to meet,” she says.

“When we met, it was so clear God was putting us together to replant something new.” Now, the sign out front says Cross Community Church, and the name is not the only thing that’s changed. “There’s life back in this building,” Troy says, “Baptisms are happening, salvations are happening, and this church has been raised from the dead.”

➡️ PRAY FOR:
📌 Humility and understanding as members of Cross Community Church face change.
📌 The new believers Troy has baptized to grow in their faith.
📌 Growth and a gospel witness that the surrounding community will see and be drawn to.

03/04/2026

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Andrew Mark and Petra Adil got strange reactions when they went onto the streets of Montreal and shared Christ with people. That was to be expected in a place where less than 1% of the residents identify as evangelical. And yet God used those downtown gospel conversations to grow a new church in one of the most unchurched cities in North America. 
PRAY FOR
• More fruit to come from Friday night on-the-street gospel conversations
• God to call and equip church planting interns out of Andrew Mark’s church who will help plant more new works
• More Christians to come and share Christ with the 99% of people in Quebec who are lost

03/03/2026

We are praying for Pastor Will Buchanan. God is on the Move!

🙏 Week of Prayer Day 3: Meet Will Buchanan
Tappahannock, Virginia

Once addicted to pills & he**in, Will Buchanan thought his life was over. But God had other plans. Today, Will is a pastor in Hanover, VA, one of many transformed through The Fix, a church plant & recovery program. Only Jesus makes this kind of change possible.

“Will’s like an altar of remembrance. People see him and say, “Wow, look what God’s done in his life—I know he must have a purpose for me too.” Fred Weymouth

Every Sunday morning, Will, shows up wearing his best gray suit. He’s definitely not what he once was.

“I used to be lost in addiction,” Will says. “First it was pills, then he**in. And if I could’ve found anything worse, I would’ve done that too. But then God radically changed me, and now I don’t even look like the person I used to be.”

They met when Will was at his drug-addicted worst, not long after Fred, along with his wife, Casey, started The Fix, a church plant and residential recovery program aimed at reaching people who are struggling with homelessness, drug addiction, and alcoholism. But after completing the program God called Will to preach!

“We spend a year with people,” Fred says. “We walk them through recovery, we teach them about Jesus, and now we also make sure we introduce them to Will. When he came here, God made him a new person. Our students see him pastoring and can know God has a plan for their lives, too.”

Our mission statement is, “Reach, teach, and send.” The only reason we can do that is because people give to Annie Armstrong.

➡️ Prayer Requests:
📌 God to thoroughly equip Will so he can lead his church well.
📌 The men and women at The Fix to discover the gospel purpose God has for their lives.
📌 Fred and others at The Fix to build witnessing relationships with people who need healing and hope.

03/02/2026

Love our Family of Southern Baptist Churches—planting churches everywhere for everyone. We are better together.
Praying for Fred & Casey Weymouth and their family today. Florida Baptist Convention North American Mission Board (NAMB) Annie Armstrong Send Network Send Network Español Send Network Florida

Step into the story

03/02/2026

Thankful to have the Adams family planting a church here at Purdue University. Florida Baptist Convention North American Mission Board (NAMB) Annie Armstrong Send Network Send Network Español Send Network Florida

⚠️ WEEK OF PRAYER DAY 1

“I’m seeing things I’ve never seen before.”

That’s what Jordan Adams said the morning after a three-hour, standing-room-only worship service where his church plant baptized 38 college students.

👉 “When we came in 2023, I knew God was going to work,” he says. “But I never imagined auditoriums overflowing, all these people getting baptized—this is more than anything we ever could’ve dreamed up.” Jordan and his wife, Jessamy, are church planting missionaries in West Lafayette, Indiana, the home of Purdue University.

“There are 41,000 students here,” Jessamy says, “and most of them are at that stage of life where they’re looking for something to live for. That makes this a perfect place to plant a church.”

Now, students can leave Purdue with something more valuable than a college degree. “We have students meeting Christ, getting discipled, then graduating, saying, Where’s the next church plant? I want to move there,” Jordan says.

➡️ “We’re sending them out as ambassadors for Christ. Now, I’m certain God’s going to change our world, and He’s going to do it through college students.”

PRAY FOR:
📌 Thousands of students to meet Jesus at Purdue.
📌 God to send mature adults to the Adams’ church plant who can disciple new believers.
📌 God to equip and send graduating students to other communities where they can help plant more new churches.

03/01/2026

The need for the gospel in North America has never been greater. But God is moving in powerful ways
through more than 3,000 missionaries supported by the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. When you
give, it’s more than a gift; it’s fuel for the Great Commission. Florida Baptist ConventionSend NetworkSend Network Español

02/28/2026

We are praying in South Florida! We are very Thankful for our Southern Baptist Churches who partner through your prayers and sacrificial giving!

02/11/2026

🔥 THE KINGDOM!🔥
The past *two days* in Orlando were nothing short of extraordinary. In just **24+ hours**, the Send Network Florida Church Planter Training brought together **28+ South Florida planters** for equipping, encouragement, and genuine care — and God moved in a powerful way! 🙌

This wasn’t “just a training.”
It was teamwork. Unity. Kingdom collaboration and Scripture feed Prayer.
A vibrant gathering of Church Planters learning and sharpening one another to Engage the City, Make Disciples and Plant a Church.

We ran dual‑language tracks (English + Spanish) so every planter could learn and strategize in the heart‑language that serves them best. ❤️🌎

And the nations represented? 👇
Haiti 🇭🇹
Romania 🇷🇴
Brazil 🇧🇷
Cuba 🇨🇺
Vietnam 🇻🇳
China 🇨🇳
Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Colombia 🇨🇴
Bolivia 🇧🇴
Guatemala 🇬🇹
Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

THIS is the Kingdom on display.
A global mosaic God is weaving together to reach Florida with the gospel. 🌍✨

Grateful. Energized. Expectant for what’s ahead.
Adelante. 🚀