Our Director

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Kevin Baird is the Director of Pastoral Ministries at Florida Family Voice, and a veteran minister for over 40 years. His educational background includes undergraduate degrees in religion and philosophy, as well as graduate degrees in both Historical Theology (M.Div.) and History of Christian Thought (D. Min.). His ministry experience has been extensive through the years as a lead pastor, church planter, national conference speaker, college professor, talk radio host, biblical worldview advocate in public policy, and media analyst on politics and culture. He has been an invited contributor to Fox and Friends, as well as other national media outlets including numerous newspapers, radio, and cable news networks.

In addition to his pastoral experience, he has been highly involved in activating pastors towards greater civic engagement and public policy advocacy. In 2008, he was one of a group of national pastors who challenged the constitutionality of The Johnson Amendment of the IRS Code 501(c)3, which restricts a pastor’s First Amendment rights in the pulpit. In 2013, he was the founding director of the South Carolina Pastors Alliance, a group of nearly 500 pastors networking together to influence legislation especially in the areas of life, marriage, family, and religious liberty. He has been a featured speaker at numerous rallies, conferences, and seminars representing the pastor’s role in important cultural conversations. Along with these speaking venues, he has spent significant time in the college classroom teaching aspiring pastors his course, “A Theology of Civic Reformation: Engaging the Culture with a Biblical Worldview.”

Most recently, as the Director of Pastoral Ministries for Florida Family Voice, his role is to connect the 12,600 self-identified, evangelical pastors in Florida with their civic leaders for prayer, partnership, and public policy engagement. This mission is called, The Florida Capitol Project. Through this project, he educates pastors concerning their historic and biblical role as civic influencers. Secondly, he equips pastors with leadership tools to be effective with their spiritual influence. Finally, he empowers pastors with opportunities for connection and ministry to their civic representatives. This mission is quickly spreading and becoming a powerful template to impact civic representatives not only in Florida, but numerous states across the nation.

He has been married to his wife Tracie for 42 years and has 3 children, 2 “daughters-in-love,” and 3 amazing grandsons.

Barry Webster has lived in Tallahassee since 1998 and has been a member of Celebration Baptist Church for over 23 years. He is a lay leader in his church and has served in a number of leadership roles as a deacon, ministry leader, discipleship leader, missions committee chair and member of the trustees.  He has a heart for missions and has led many trips to Ethiopia, India, Thailand, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Haiti.  In addition, he is active in numerous ministry initiatives around Tallahassee in the Big Bend Region.

Barry has worked in the business world since 1984 and has had a successful career in management and technology consulting, specifically with Government agencies at both the local and state level.  After taking an early retirement from his Global Consulting company of almost 30 years, Barry is spending more time pursuing his passion for the gospel of Jesus Christ in missions and ministry.

Barry now leads Celebration’s Salt & Light Ministry helping his church and churches statewide shine the light of Christ into the public square and the culture around us through prayer, equipping people in a Biblical Worldview, standing for Biblical truth, and engaging the issues we face as a culture. Celebration’s Salt & Light Ministry has been an active partner with the Florida Capitol Project since its inception and he is currently the Assistant to the Director.

Barry has been married for over 35 years to his wonderful wife Tiffanie. They have two beautiful daughters, Hannah and Liz.

Pastor Eli Hendricks is a regional influencer, Share Your Heart Ministries, Tallahassee coordinator, and the founder of LifeWay Church in Tallahassee, Fl.  He is passionate about equipping leaders to move into the marketplace for community impact and generational transformation. Eli is Kingdom-minded and sees the civic mission field as an important door for pastors to walk through and engage with the power of the Word and His Spirit. He is an avid supporter of the State of Israel and the Jewish people and has hosted trips to the Holy Land for many years. Eli has been happily married to his beautiful wife Kelly for 33 amazing years. They have three grown children and two beautiful grandchildren who are a constant source of love and support.  

Pastor Manuel (Manny) Arisso is the North Florida Director for Victory for Youth and Share Your Heart Ministries, a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing Christ’s heart and compassion to the neediest of Florida residents. Through the years he has been in leadership for a number of important ministries dedicated to reaching people through the challenges of life. He graduated from IBAO Bible School and was ordained through Latin Mission Ministries and Alpha and Omega Church in Miami, FL. He, along with his wife Clara, have been senior pastors and leaders of local churches and ministries for many years. They currently reside in Tallahassee and have great influence in their region and the state. Manny is a consistent and vital team member and partner in the work of the Florida Capitol Project for the last several years.