🌱 Innovation Collective 2025

Shaping the Future, Strengthening Faith (Download Insert)

📍 Gardenview Baptist Church | 🗓️ Saturday, September 20 | 🕙 10:00 AM–12:00 PM | 🍽️ Lunch to Follow

What if your church could help spark a movement of renewal and multiplication?

This year’s Northeast Florida Baptist Association Annual Meeting isn’t just for churches planting churches. It’s for every church ready to explore new ways God may be calling them to impact their community and strengthen their ministry.

Whether your next step is revitalizing a ministry, restarting outreach, forming a new partnership, or launching a new church altogether, this gathering is for you.

🔥 Why You Should Join Us:

  • Inspiring Interviews from churches finding creative ways to engage their mission field

  • Practical Breakouts to help your church identify areas of renewal or innovation

  • Strategic Table Discussions to exchange ideas and build collaborative momentum

  • Opportunities to Partner with other churches in shared mission and ministry

  • A Free Lunch and rich fellowship with your local Baptist family

🎯 Who Should Come:

  • Pastors

  • Ministry Leaders (Sunday School, Next Gen, Outreach, etc.)

  • Church Members passionate about community impact

  • Anyone asking, “What’s next for our church?”

💡 Theme Preview:

“Together, we revive and multiply.”
This year, we’ll explore how churches of all sizes and stages can reimagine what ministry could look like — not just through planting and replanting, but by reinvigorating existing ministries, launching new initiatives, and forging strategic partnerships that advance the Gospel in fresh ways.

🎤 Featured Interviews & Stories of Innovation

  • Dr. Mike Kwiatkowski - Lead Pastor, Mercy Hill Church – Yulee, FL

    • Pastor Mike has faithfully led Mercy Hill through a powerful journey of church revitalization, breathing new life into a congregation that now serves as a vibrant witness in its community. His story reflects what’s possible when courage, leadership, and the Spirit of God intersect.

  • Pastor Todd Carr - Lead Pastor, Exchange Church – Wildlight, FL

    • After years of serving at First Baptist Callahan, Pastor Todd built strong community relationships that laid the foundation for something new. From those roots, he planted Exchange Church, a mobile, gospel-driven congregation meeting in Wildlight Elementary School and reaching families in creative ways.

  • Pastor Zach Terry - Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church – Fernandina Beach, FL

    • Pastor Zach leads with a bold, forward-looking vision. His plan for church multiplication through campus expansion is designed to bring the gospel closer to where people live and work. He brings insight into leading a historic church into a future of strategic growth and innovation.

  • JimBo Stewart - Associate Director of Replant, North American Mission Board

    • JimBo equips churches across the nation for replanting and revitalization, blending theology, strategy, and humor. His heart for helping declining churches find new life is contagious—and deeply needed.

  • Dr. James Peoples - Director, Send Network Florida

    • As the director of Send Network Florida, James leads a statewide effort to plant new churches and empower leaders to reach every corner of Florida. His voice brings clarity to the mission, strategy, and support available for those ready to say "yes" to multiplication.

✅ Ready to explore what’s next?

Pre-Register Now
Reserve your seat at the table and join us as we pursue God’s next chapter—together.

📍 Location:
Gardenview Baptist Church
3139 Armsdale Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32218

For questions, contact: chris@familyofchurches.us