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New building opened at Park Street<br />
St. Petersburg, FL<br />
Park Street <strong>Baptist</strong> Church, pas<strong>to</strong>red<br />
by Dan Jeffers, celebrated the grand<br />
opening of their new 27,000-square-<br />
foot Family Life Center on November<br />
9. The building includes a gym, kitchen,<br />
books<strong>to</strong>re, exercise room, game<br />
room, and classrooms. “Thanks <strong>to</strong> a<br />
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lot of hard labor from the church folks<br />
and some of the BBF Builders, we<br />
were able <strong>to</strong> get in this building at $63<br />
a square foot, well below the average<br />
in this area. It<br />
is our hope that<br />
this will open a<br />
new avenues and<br />
possibilities in<br />
ministry <strong>to</strong> the<br />
community,” said<br />
Jeffers.<br />
Mid-Way <strong>Baptist</strong> <strong>to</strong> host ministry workshop<br />
Raleigh, NC<br />
Mid-Way <strong>Baptist</strong> Church will host a<br />
PLACE workshop for church pas<strong>to</strong>rs<br />
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and leaders April 2-3. The workshop is<br />
designed <strong>to</strong> help church members discover<br />
how best <strong>to</strong> use their abilities and<br />
gifts in ministry.<br />
Gene Schuyler,<br />
membership/<br />
ministry pas<strong>to</strong>r<br />
of Mid-Way <strong>Baptist</strong>,<br />
says attending<br />
a PLACE<br />
workshop is the<br />
“greatest investment<br />
of time and<br />
money.”<br />
PLACE Ministries<br />
offers<br />
<strong>to</strong>ols <strong>to</strong> help pas<strong>to</strong>rs<br />
and church<br />
leaders intentionally<br />
move<br />
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church members<br />
in<strong>to</strong> ministries.<br />
Mid-Way <strong>Baptist</strong>,<br />
whose pas<strong>to</strong>rs<br />
and members recently<br />
hosted a<br />
national BBFI meeting, is well known<br />
for its very active membership. Schuyler<br />
says, “The PLACE process has had a<br />
tremendous impact in helping our members<br />
at Mid-Way <strong>to</strong> better know their<br />
abilities and spiritual gifts and <strong>to</strong> develop<br />
them <strong>to</strong> a greater service in knowing<br />
where they fit in<strong>to</strong> God’s Work.”<br />
At the workshop, one of the <strong>to</strong>ols<br />
leaders receive and learn <strong>to</strong> use is an<br />
assessment <strong>to</strong>ol that combines spiritual<br />
gifts with four personality types, abilities,<br />
passions, and experiences of life.<br />
Each leader will discover that effective<br />
ministry is a summation of personality,<br />
skill sets, passions, and life experiences.<br />
Those interested in attending the<br />
National PLACE Assimilation Workshop<br />
held at Mid-Way <strong>Baptist</strong> Church<br />
in Raleigh, North Carolina, April 2-3,<br />
2009, may register online at www.<br />
placeministries.org or call PLACE Ministries<br />
<strong>to</strong>ll free 877.463.2863. Registrants<br />
can save up <strong>to</strong> $70 by booking early.<br />
More information about the April<br />
workshop is available from Pas<strong>to</strong>r<br />
Gene Schuyler<br />
at Mid-Way<br />
(919.772.5864) or<br />
by emailing gene@<br />
mid-way.com.<br />
<strong>Baptist</strong> <strong>Bible</strong> <strong>Tribune</strong> [ January 2009 ] 41
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