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HISTORY Lindsay's father, Homer G. Lindsay Sr., began pastoring the First Baptist Church Of Jacksonville , Florida , in 1940 . At the age of 16, Homer Junior felt the call to become a Preacher , and later graduated from Stetson University in Deland, Florida, going on to study ministry at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas . In September 1952 he married Shirley Tillman in Jacksonville, and began pastoring a 42-member church in Miami, Florida . By the late 1960s, the church had grown to 3,200 members. In January 1969 , Lindsay returned to Jacksonville to co-pastor the 2,600-member First Baptist Church with his father, who later retired in 1973 and died in 1981 . In 1982 , Dr. Jerry Vines joined Lindsay as the church's new co-pastor. Vines became the President of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1988 , a major victory for conservative Baptists who were fighting to safeguard the doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy . By the time of Lindsay's retirement in 1999 , the church had a Sunday morning attendance of about 7,000, eighteen ordained ministers, an annual budget of over $9 million, full-time staff of 142, and land and other assets valued at about $6 million. {Link without Title} QUOTES ABOUT LINDSAY
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