Team Dryer Headed to Fifth Street Baptist Church!

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Team Dryer is excited to announce that I accepted the call to serve as the next Senior Pastor of Fifth Street Baptist Church in Key West, Florida! This new ministry opportunity causes us to be both excited and saddened.

We are excited because this transition is the culmination of several months of prayer, wise counsel, and seeking the Lord for His will in our lives. After much consideration, we felt like the Lord was drawing our family back into the pastorate. Fifth Street is a church in a ministry context for which we believe our family is specifically equipped to serve by Jesus. They are a multinational congregation comprised of folks from around the world. Many of the people there are "Conchs," which is the name for a person who was born in the Florida Keys, others serve in the Navy and Coast Guard, while others moved down for work or a fresh start. The church has a unique opportunity to reach the nations for Christ through the training and deployment of the servicemen and servicewomen who attend the church while assigned to Key West by the Navy or Coast Guard. This also happens through the church's outreach efforts focused on the snowbirds and tourists who visit the island. We believe Fifth Street is a church with tremendous potential to make a God-sized impact in this world and we feel blessed to be called by Jesus to go and serve alongside them for His glory.

We are saddened because our acceptance of the call to go and serve there means we will leave Jacksonville and resign from our ministry at the Jacksonville Baptist Association. We have always considered Northeast Florida to be our home. I was saved and baptized here, received my call to ministry here, ordained here, met and married my wife here, and had two of my children in this area. God has been gracious to me in this place. Some of our best friends live here and have served alongside of us planting churches, evangelizing the lost, and equipping the saints. I cannot count nor will I ever be able to repay my pastor buddies, friends in ministry, and prayer warriors for helping me and my family become the ministry team into which Jesus developed us. Thank you for your gracious service to us. The Lord knows what you have done and how much it means to us.

So dear friends we must say goodbye and head south to a new adventure for the glory of God. We covet your prayers as we embark on this journey and look forward to God's continued blessing as we co-labor for Him (1 Cor 3:5-9).

In His Service,

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