Welcome to First Baptist Church Zephyrhills
Pastor Led, Deacon Served, Committee Operated, People Approved
Welcome to First Baptist Church Zephyrhills
Pastor Led, Deacon Served, Committee Operated, People Approved
Samaritan Purse Operation Christmas Child
We Neede Your Help To Make Operation Christmas Child a Big Success This Year!
At First Baptist Church Zephyrhills, we are joining Franklin Graham and Samaritan's Purse to bring boxes filled with necessities, toys and God's Word to children around the world.
Won't you help us spread this joy by collecting items on the lists below, and bringing them to First Baptist Church Zephyrhills where they will be lovingly packed into Operation Christmas Child boxes by our volunteers.
The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way to children in need around the world. Through this project, Samaritan’s Purse partners with the local church worldwide to share the Good News of Jesus Christ and make disciples of the nations.
In the summer of 1993, Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham received a call from a man in England asking if he’d be willing to fill shoeboxes with gifts for children in Eastern Europe. Franklin agreed, but figured Christmas was months away. He forgot about the promise until he received a call back around Thanksgiving asking about the gifts.
Franklin asked his friend, the late Pastor Ross Rhoads of Calvary Church of Charlotte to see if he could help with the need. A Sunday shortly afterward, Pastor Rhoads demonstrated for his congregation how to fill a shoebox with simple gifts and encouraged them to include a letter to the child as well. Within weeks, the church had 11,000 shoeboxes lining their hallways.
Due to their generosity and additional gifts from Canada, Samaritan’s Purse sent 28,000 shoebox gifts to children in the Balkans that Christmas. Through these gifts, we communicated to children and their families what the angel said to the shepherds about Jesus’ birth: “I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people” (Luke 2:10, ESV).
Every year since, Samaritan’s Purse has collected shoebox gifts filled with toys, school supplies, and hygiene items for children around the world. Since 1993, more than 232 million children in more than 170 countries and territories have received an Operation Christmas Child shoebox. The project delivers not only the joy of what, for many kids, is their first gift ever, but also gives them a tangible expression of God’s love.
Tens of thousands of volunteers from local churches around the world partner with us to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ at festive outreach events where children are surprised with these shoebox gifts.
Seeking to follow Jesus’ command to “make disciples of all the nations” (Matthew 28:19), we have trained over 2.2 million volunteers from these congregations to teach The Greatest Journey, our dynamic follow-up discipleship course for shoebox recipients. Since 2009, 46 million children have enrolled in this 12-lesson program to learn how to follow Christ and share Him with others. More than 24 million of these boys and girls have made a decision to accept Jesus as their Savior during the course. Many are now praying for and sharing their faith with family and friends. As a result of this ever-expanding witness, new churches are starting and communities are being transformed!
Join Us for Essentials of the Faith Series Wednesday Evening
Beginning on Wednesday September 3rd join us for Family Night at First Baptist Church Zephyrhills for the New Essentials of the Faith Series. Pastor Rob will be continuing the series with an eight week mini-series on Revelations
Join us at 5:30pm for pizza & dessert, 6:00pm for bible study. We have groups for teens
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I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me
Galatians 2:20 KJV
Contact Us (813) 782-5574
Better yet, see us in person!
Come out and Join Pastor Rob and the Choir as they perform a program of traditional Christmas hymns to lift your spirits and inspire your soul!
First Baptist Church Zephyrhills
38300 5th Avenue, Zephyrhills, Florida 33542, United States
Office Hours
Today | Closed |
