Reseeding America
at Pensacola Christian College
By Bob Larson
I appreciated the invitation from Pensacola Christian College (PCC)
to participate once again in a Church Planting Seminar held on their
beautiful campus in Pensacola, Florida. The seminar is held every oth-
er year in April, and this was the fourth time I have had the opportu-
nity to teach and challenge the students for church planting and the
restarting of churches in decline.

Preaching in the seminary chapel was an added blessing this year and
it allowed me another opportunity to encourage the students to be
motivated and mobilized for the Lord while they are in school and as
they come to the end of their training. It is encouraging to see a good
number of men training for the ministry at PCC. The spirit was excel-
lent, and it is obvious that God is at work in hearts.

I always enjoy the one-on-one time with the students during the
Church Planting Seminar. Between my sessions, the students will
come and will introduce themselves and share what God is putting
on their hearts to do after college. It was a joy to hear several of them
talk about starting churches after they receive some practical “on the
job” experience in ministry and church planting. Others wanted to
know about possible intern programs where they would be able to
gain experience in ministry, working under an experienced pastor.

The question-and-answer time this year was one of the highlights of
the seminar. Please pray for these students that God will use many of
them to start churches in many needy areas of America.

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Miami Missions Trip
A New Church Plant Helping a New
Church Plant
By Bob Larson, USA Director, Baptist International Missions, Inc.

It was our privilege to help coordinate
and to participate in a USA missions trip
in mid-February. Open Door Baptist
Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
contacted us early in 2022. This new
church was interested in taking their
first ever missions trip. We contacted
Life Baptist Church in Miami,
Florida, which is also a new church
plant, about the possibility of a group
coming to help them do evangelism
and canvassing in the Miami area. The
dates were set and Reseeding America
provided door hangers for canvassing
and funding for water bottle labels for
a park ministry that the group would
also be able to conduct while in Miami. Our ministry arranged housing for the
group from Philadelphia by renting a large Airbnb facility in Miami. It was a fast-
moving trip, but God did an amazing work in all our hearts as we presented the
Gospel to the community and encouraged a new church plant, a church planter,
and his family. Luis Briceno, pastor of Life Baptist Church, was a real blessing
and help to the group from Philadelphia as he and his family
worked alongside us and shared many things concerning their
ministry. Pastor Briceno also did an excellent job of helping us
understand the culture of the metro
Miami area. Pastor Joe Delp, who
pastors Open Door Baptist Church
in Philadelphia, later shared with us
that his missions team came home
excited about what they were able to
do in Miami and they want to take
another missions trip soon!
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