We take the time today to announce the home-going of a great man of God. Brother J.B. Buffington went home to be with the Lord yesterday, August 20th. We can only imagine the welcome home this great servant of the Lord received! Only Heaven will tell how many souls came to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ through this man’s ministry. His ministry included three pastorates, the last being for thirty years at the Calvary Baptist Church in Lakeland, Florida. We are sad to see him go, but glad to know that “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” Psalm 116:15. Please be praying for Mrs. Buffington, and the rest of the family during this time of loss.
Here is an excerpt from his obituary:
Dr. Junious Bryson “J.B.” was a B-17 Pilot in the Army Air Corps during WWII. He moved to Lakeland in 1963 from Bristol, Florida. He was the pastor at Calvary Baptist Church before his retirement. He is currently a member of the Landmark Baptist Church in Haines City.
Services times and information for Brother Buffington are as follows:
Visitation:
Thursday, August 28th 5pm – 8pm
Gentry Morrison North
5245 98 N.
Lakeland, Florida
Funeral Service:
Friday, August 29th 10:00 am
Calvary Baptist Church
1945 N. Florida Ave.
Lakeland, Florida
We are excited to introduce some great new quality changes to our live services! Just this week we have updated some of our equipment here at the church that will enable us to stream a much higher quality video to those who take advantage of our streaming services. Our first test run was last Wednesday night, and you can see the difference in quality by watching the archived service. You certainly won’t be wasting your time as our missionary to Romania, Patrick Boyle, shared what God has accomplished with his work there in Romania. He also preached a powerful – soul awakening message that will surely sound off some alarms in your heart!
If you haven’t taken the time to check out any of our services online, we encourage you to do so. You can find any of our archived messages by clicking on our media link. Or if you happen to be around a computer during one of our services, click on the live services link and watch any of our services live online – completely free of charge of course! Once you have done that – shoot us an email through the contact us link, and let us know how you enjoyed it!
Well, its hard to believe, but summer is over and it’s time to get back to school. Many of the Public schools in our area will begin classes this next Monday, but already here at Landmark our Christian School has geared up and started off to an exciting new year! John Major, our new High School / Middle School Principal, and our new Elementary Principal, Mrs. Paula Carter are enthusiastic about a great year the Lord has planned for us at Landmark Christian School. We invite you to join us at Landmark this Sunday for a great time as we celebrate Back to School Sunday.
We here at Landmark are truly blessed with a wonderful and gracious Saviour. We are pleased to celebrate not only the meeting of our goal for Do It Again Sunday, but the exceeding of it by almost double! As many of you know, we were praying that the Lord would meet the need of $150,000 to keep some important projects running that would have completely stopped without these funds. God came through miraculously, once again, and brought in a grand total of just over $259,500! Praise the Lord! We look forward to putting these projects into action, and allowing the Lord to use us in mighty ways for the great cause of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
