OBC 68th Ministry Anniversary is this Sunday October 12th! Remember to come and let's celebrate.
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I hope you are as excited about Missions Week as I am! November 2-9, 2025 will be a celebration of all that God is doing through OBC around the world. I pray that this week will help us refocus on our mission to be a people empowered by the Holy Spirit to make a difference in our community and around the world for God's glory.
During our annual missions week, we connect with missionary families from all over the world. This year we will partner with five families who serve in Portugal, the Philippines, Asia, and Sanford, FL. Through these partnerships, we see the Gospel shared in every corner of the globe.
During missions week, I am praying that we will all be challenged to grow in personal ministry in our schools, homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces. I am praying that God will call some to give their lives and surrender to go as missionaries to places that need the Gospel. I am also praying that God will challenge us to give our resources to His Kingdom's work.
For many of you, giving to Faith Promise Missions will be new. We have put a special section at the bottom of this web-page to help explain how we give to missions here at Orlando Baptist Church. When we all give, we accomplish so much more. After all, we are better together! I love you, church. Please be praying with me that God would move in a big way during Missions Week 2025.
Dustin
Aaron and Lani Stephens were approved as Baptist Bible Fellowship International (BBFI) missionaries in 2022 and moved to the Philippines in the spring of 2024 to begin church planting. Aaron, originally from Somerset, Kentucky, and Lani, from Fort Worth, Texas, surrendered their lives to missions while attending Baptist Bible College. After completing their internship in Raleigh, North Carolina, God confirmed His call to reach the Filipino people with the Gospel. They have two children, a son named Shiloh (born 2023) and a daughter named Harley (born 2024), and are passionate about sharing Christ, making disciples, and planting churches in Metro Manila.
Spanish Ministry
Andrew and Kelsey have been serving as missionaries in the Philippines for the past two years, sent out by Granbury Baptist Church in Granbury, Texas. Andrew and Kelsey have been married for five years and are blessed with a cute and energetic two-year-old daughter, Pippa, with another baby girl on the way in December. As a family, they enjoy spending time together in coffee shops, browsing through thrift stores, and savouring Japanese cuisine. Their heart and prayer is to see 200 churches planted in their lifetime, both locally in the Philippines and globally through missionaries sent out. The Perez Family is grateful for the opportunity to share what the Lord has been doing in their lives and wishes to thank you for welcoming us into your church family.
Senior Adults: Caraballo, Majors, Pipes, and Fowler’s groups
Jacob & Sydney Mulford are Baptist Bible Fellowship International (BBFI) missionaries to the people of Lisbon, Portugal. Their desire is to see the people of Portugal worship Christ. He uses His church to spread His Gospel message. For these reasons, they are stepping out in faith with God’s calling on their lives to evangelise, disciple, and plant churches. Although both Jacob and Sydney made professions of faith when they were young, it wasn’t until they were teenagers that they fully realised the truth of the Gospel. When they received Jesus as their Saviour, they knew He was calling them into ministry, which led them to Mission University. While there, they developed a burden for the Iberian Peninsula. After graduation, they got married and took a survey trip to Spain and Portugal, where God confirmed in their lives that this is where He wants them to serve. He opened more doors to lead us to Portugal, where we could share the Gospel.
Traie and Savanna Odom live in Sanford, Florida, where they serve the Lord through Freeway Sanford, a Christ-centered recovery and discipleship ministry. Traie is the Director of Freeway Sanford and an elder at Restoration Church of Sanford, leading a ministry that reaches those struggling with addiction, crime, and homelessness with the hope of the gospel.
Their family story is one of redemption and calling. After years of personal struggle and nearly a decade in jail and prison, Traie surrendered his life to Christ in 2020 while part of the Freeway program in Missouri. God radically transformed his life and called him to preach the gospel and lead others out of bondage into freedom in Christ.
Savanna has her own powerful testimony of God’s grace, having struggled with addiction for most of her life before fully surrendering her life to Christ in 2022. Since then, she has become a devoted wife, mother, and ministry partner, actively supporting the discipleship work at Freeway and encouraging women with the hope she has found in Jesus.
Together, Traie and Savanna are parents to their sons, Dylan and Ezra, and their baby girl, Scarlet, as they build a home centered on Christ and His mission. Their heartbeat is simple: to make disciples who, in turn, make disciples. Whether through leading Bible studies, opening their home, serving their church, or ministering on the streets, the Odoms are a living testimony that no one is too far gone for the grace of God.
Middle Adults: Vincent & Marquardt’s groups
God has called Hieu and Elaina Tran to serve as missionaries in Asia. They met in a youth group and even went on their first mission trip together in high school. Soon after, they began dating and pursued their passion for global missions. Hieu and Elaina, along with their two boys, Gus and Haddon, are incredibly excited to start their ministry in Asia!
This creative access country is made up of 105 million people, where only 1% of the population would consider themselves Christians. This means that 99 out of 100 people in this creative access nation are living and dying outside of the grace of Jesus. Government restrictions present obstacles to ministry in Southeast Asia, preventing believers from sharing the good news of Jesus. Furthermore, many individuals find themselves trapped in an endless cycle of religious rituals and practices devoid of hope. Their mission is to help the people of Southeast Asia live in and out of the hope of Jesus, the only true and lasting hope. They will do this by sharing the gospel, maturing disciples, and planting churches. As they begin their ministry, Hieu and Elaina will work alongside an experienced pastor's ministry. Though there may be challenges and obstacles to ministry in this creative access nation, they place their trust in a God who is infinitely greater than anything that stands against the gospel of Jesus Christ!
ALIVE Students, College, Cooper, R Caraballo, Welch groups
During the week of November 2, 2025, we will make a commitment for 2026 to determine how far we will reach in world missions, both at home and abroad, through Orlando Baptist Church. What we do as a church will be determined by what we do as individuals and families. We refer to this as Faith Promise Missions Giving (FPMG). Let's take a moment to understand how we can share in this area. FPMG is a commitment between you and the Lord and is not a pledge to the church. Instead, it is a promise to the Lord that, as He supplies, you will give to the OBC World Missions Outreach. This principle of FPMG is found in II Corinthians 8-9. Verse 3 of chapter 8 says, "They gave to their power" or 'their ability' and "They gave beyond their power" or 'God's ability.' You quickly see this requires us to step out by faith. I love this giving! It is a partnership and a promise, based on faith in the Lord, that He who saves me and keeps me can provide through me to reach the world with the Gospel. I am a partner with the Lord, with our missionaries who go abroad in faith, and with my church family as we collectively commit to a FPMG goal that we will give together as a church.
Here is how we get involved: As God directs you in an amount to give next year, by faith, we ask you to place that amount on the FPMG card provided, and then Sunday night, at our World Missions Celebration, we will celebrate what God is going to do through us individually and as a church. Simply give, and trust that God will provide the finances. Each time you give this gift, please make a note of your donation, whether online, by check, or in an envelope, specifying the amount designated for FPMG. I know the Lord leads us from time to time to give to other mission causes and projects outside our FPMG, and I am all for our sensitivity to the Lord in this area. If you designate funds specifically to a missionary or a project, the funds will be allocated there, not to the OBC Faith Promise Missions World Outreach.
Here is what I am asking you to do: Begin praying so that the Lord will send forth more servants into the incredible harvest of the world through OBC. How does He want to use you to reach our world? Spend a few moments reading II Corinthians 8:1-9 and see how He will use you in this giving opportunity. This week, we can, by faith, become intricate parts of what the Lord is doing in building His church around the world. Here is where we will determine the future of God's blessings on our church and our lives. In Matthew 9:29, Jesus says, 'According to your faith, let it be unto you.'
May He entrust us with much because of our faith!
DUSTIN
