{"id":127046,"date":"2023-03-09T17:38:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T22:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=127046"},"modified":"2023-03-09T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T22:38:58","slug":"samuel-maxwell-sr-retires-after-42-years-of-pastoral-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=127046","title":{"rendered":"SAMUEL MAXWELL, SR. RETIRES AFTER 42 YEARS OF PASTORAL LEADERSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-127047\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-5.38.00-PM-640x285.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-5.38.00-PM-640x285.png 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-5.38.00-PM-1280x570.png 1280w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-5.38.00-PM-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-5.38.00-PM-1024x456.png 1024w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-5.38.00-PM-1536x684.png 1536w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-09-at-5.38.00-PM.png 1966w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SAMUEL MAXWELL, SR. RETIRES AFTER 42 YEARS OF PASTORAL LEADERSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last month, the First Baptist Church of Progress Village hosted a celebration for the retirement of their pastor, Dr. Samuel L. Maxwell, Sr. The event recognized his 42 years of Pastoral Leadership. The celebration was held at the West Shore Grand Hotel. Dr. and Mrs. Samuel (Gerri) Maxwell, Sr., center, are holding a Proclamation presented to them from the City of Tampa. Joining them from left are: Executive Pastor Todd Hammond, Mrs. Stacia Hammond, City of Tampa Fire Rescue Chief Barbara Tripp, and City of Tampa Senior Executive Aide, Tampa Police Department, Ida Walker. (Photograph by George Streets)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAMUEL MAXWELL, SR. RETIRES AFTER 42 YEARS OF PASTORAL LEADERSHIP \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last month, the First Baptist Church of Progress Village hosted a celebration for the retirement of their pastor, Dr. Samuel L. Maxwell, Sr. The event recognized his 42 years of Pastoral Leadership. The celebration was held at the West Shore Grand Hotel. Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":127047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-articles","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}