NORTH PORT, Fla. — Troy Gramling, lead pastor of Flamingo Road Church, Cooper City, will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Pastors Conference during its June meeting in Orlando, John Cross, pastor of South Biscayne Church, North Port, announced March 18. Cross said he will nominate Gramling because he embodies the Great Commission Resurgence “we’re praying and believing God for … in our churches and convention.”
Gramling is the first announced nominee to lead the Pastors Conference, which meets two days prior to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Flamingo Road has led the Florida Baptist Convention in baptisms during the last four years, with 1,535 in 2009, according to the Florida Baptist Convention. The church ranked fifth in baptisms in the Southern Baptist Convention in 2008, according to LifeWay Christian Resources.
According to the church Web site, Flamingo Road exists in six campuses: three in South Florida — Cooper City, Doral and Hallandale Beach; Pensacola; Lima, Peru and an Internet-based campus. “Today Flamingo Road Church is running after an ambitious goal called ‘50, 100, 150’: 50 campuses; 100,000 in attendance and a $150 million budget,” the Web site reports.
Information from the 2009 Annual Church Profile (ACP) for Flamingo Road lists 1,535 baptisms and primary worship service attendance of 10,000 with 8,200 resident members. According to the Florida Baptist Convention, the congregation gave $12,500, or 0.18 percent, through the Cooperative Program from total undesignated receipts of $6,800,000, as reported in the church ACP.
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