Ministry Staff

Meet our pastors

Senior Pastor Tim Grosshans

“Pastor Tim” as we like to call him has been our churches Valentine since his arrival on Valentine’s day 2009.

Just prior to coming to First Baptist he had been working as a Ministry Catalyst with numerous ministries and churches around the country. This exposure and experience has given him great insight into leading our church in this new century. Prior to that he served as Executive Director at Student Leadership University and on several church staffs as well. He has lead ministry in churches whose size varied from 12 to 12,000.
He says the greatest compliment he ever receives is when people say “you are not like any Pastor I have ever known!”.

The church has come to love his straight forward and challenging messages. He has brought the simple but life changing message of the two reasons we are alive: “To love God and to share Gods love with others”.
He also brings a great sense of humor. He likes to say: “if we can’t giggle every few minutes then someone is doing something wrong!”

His wife Carol works as a Middle School Principal and they have 5 children one daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. They all attend our church.

Pastor Tim loves the challenge of leading a historic church in a historic setting to be a place that both honors the past and stays on the cutting edge of contemporary church ministry.

You can contact him at pastortim [at] fbcwg [dot] org

Executive Pastor Keith Yarborough

Pastor Keith has been touted as the oldest living youth pastor but that can’t be true. He has all his hair and it’s not white.

Keith in addtion to being executive pastor is also student pastor and senior adult pastor. He is married to Susan and they have three children, a son-in-law and a wonderful granddaughter who definitely takes center stage.

He is passionately seeking to develop Godly leaders among teenagers, among adult youth leaders and also works with other churches and youth leadership organizations to see the believing youth of this world make an eternal Kingdom difference in reaching the lost. He not only seeks to do this on the local basis but has taken youth on mission projects to Hungary, Israel, Romania, Mexico, Italy and the Bahamas as well as bringing in youth from the United Kingdom as a “reverse” mission project.

You can contact him at kyarborough [at] fbcwg [dot] org

Will Blaine Pastor to families

Pastor Will grew up in Winter Garden, graduated from the Florida State University , and then graduated with a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

He and his wife, Kerry met at Southwestern. God is good…they grew up thirty minutes from each other in Central Florida, but met over a thousand miles away in Fort Worth, Texas. They have three children.

Pastor Will leads the children’s ministry, uses his graphic artist degree in many areas of church publications, and ministers to the whole family of church members and in the community. He also leads the recreation ministry which varies from Upward children’s programs to men’s basketball. One of his passions is surfing so he gives leadership and input to the surf expo held in Orlando and Christian Surfers.

You can contact him at wblaine [at] fbcwg [dot] org

Scott Fleming Pastoral Associate

Scott Fleming, raised in our church, now serves as one of our Pastoral Associates. Prior to coming home to First Baptist, Scott served bivocationally as a Youth Pastor at an Orlando congregation and as a professional chaplain at one of our local hospitals. He continues his service as a chaplain in various institutions and organizations as well as a Substitute Teacher at Foundation Academy and at his college alma mater.

Scott received his theological education from The Baptist College of Florida, and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Scott is a scholar of practical pastoral theology, and believes that the church is in the “people business”. He claims that his greatest privilege and responsibility is to love God, and share His love with others.

You can contact him at sfleming [at] fbcwg [dot] org

Scott Homan Pastoral Associate

Scott Homan a recent graduate of Liberty University and an alumni of Foundation Academy, is a young man who has a solid reputation for living the Christ-Life. Scott stood out among his peers while a student and continues to do so as a young adult. Scott desires to see teens come to know Jesus and grow in their relationship to Him and one another. Scott brings great energy to our already famous student ministry leadership team.

You can contact him at Homan [dot] Scott [at] Gmail [dot] com

Worship Leaders

Jimmy Freeman

Music has always been a part of Jimmy’s life whether singing with the family or with praise teams. He sang for many years with a group directed by Dave Andreone.

For the last few years Jimmy has led the adult choir and worship time for the traditional worship service here at First Baptist.

Jimmy has a heart to serve as he ministers to the choir and a heart to worship as he leads the congregation.

Jimmy is married to JoAnn who also sings with the choir and praise team. They have two daughters and a son-in-law.

Derric Johnson

Mark Byrd

Mark is the director of the worship music for both services. He is all about music and all about worship. He plays key board and piano, and leads the worship for the 11 a.m. service.

He also has a band, Stone Road Band, which plays locally at various restaurants. He owns Mark Byrd Green Houses a business in Apopka.
He has two sons, Seth who graduated from high school this year and Nick who is a 10th grader at Foundation Academy.