About the author:
About the author:
For thirty years, Floyd Rose was among the most sought after preachers in the Churches of Christ. In 1978, at the age of forty and the height of his popularity, he was conducting an average of twenty-six gospel meetings a year and featured on Regional and national Lectureships through the United States.
To the surprise of his family and friends, in 1979, Rose left the Church of Christ, and with his wife and one other man, Rose founded the Family Baptist Church in Toledo, Ohio. In just six months, the Family Baptist Church grew from three to five hundred members. It was Toledo's fastest growing church, and had become the center of spiritual, political and economic power in Toledo's African American community. Among its guests were Rosa parks, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farakan, and T.D. Jakes.
In 1994, two years after the death of his father, Rose returned to the Church of Christ of his childhood and again his popularity soared. Between April of 1997 and April of 1998, he traveled more than 75,000 miles accepting invitations to preach, lecture and conduct workshops in thirty different cities in as many states.
In spite of his ever increasing popularity, Rose was troubled by what he saw as a parallel between how blacks were treated by a white dominated society and how women are treated in a male dominated church. So, he established the Church of Christ At Pine Hill; a church without wall-without denominational, cultural, class, race or gender walls; a congregations of Christians where women participate in all of the ministries of the church, without restrictions or reservations.
"An Idea Whose Time Has Come" can be ordered from the following address:
F. Rose Ministries
4001 Foxborough Blvd
Valdosta, Georgia 31602
(229) 241-0705
The cost is $10.00 for the book and $2.00 shipping.
Make checks payable to "Save our Children, Inc".
Free downloadable copy of "An Idea Whose Time Has Come" in pdf. (Requires Adobe Reader)
The pdf version is made available with the permission of Floyd Rose.