PBBA Staff
Executive Director
Jon Huff
Jon Huff serves as the Executive Director of the Pensacola Bay Baptist Association, where he partners with pastors and churches to strengthen gospel faithfulness, leadership health, and cooperative mission across Northwest Florida. In this role, Jon works closely with local churches to encourage pastors, equip leaders, and engage the region with the hope of Christ.
Prior to joining PBBA, Jon most recently served as Executive Pastor at Village Baptist Church and previously on the Executive Team at Olive Baptist Church. Across nearly two decades of ministry, he has served in a wide range of leadership capacities, including interim pastoral roles, board president, curriculum writer, pastoral staff positions, and leadership coaching.
Jon has formal ministerial training from Liberty University and Pensacola Christian College. His ministry focus reflects a deep commitment to the Great Commission through leadership multiplication and the development of healthy, resilient pastors and churches.
Jon and his wife, Becky, have two children and consider Pensacola home. They are deeply invested in the life of the local church and the Northwest Florida community. Jon is passionate about walking alongside pastors, helping churches think clearly about mission, and ensuring that no leader stands alone.
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3/8 | Point Baptist (PM)
4/11 | Olive Baptist (Renew)
4/13 | Point Baptist (training)
4/25 | Pine Terrace (AM)
5/10 | Heights Baptist (AM)
5/31 | FBC Gulf Breeze (AM)
7/5 | Point Baptist
8/2 | Ray's Chapel
8/13 | Hillcrest Baptist
8/30 | Olive-Gift Class (8AM)
Executive Ministry AssistantCorina Lavenberg
Our Story
On September 1, 1887 five Baptist churches in Pensacola (Escambia County) and Milton (Santa Rosa County), Florida met together for the consideration of cooperating together. Formalizing this partnership on November 11th and 12th of 1887, this Kingdom work of the Pensacola Bay Baptist Association begun. Due to the growth in both counties, the churches in Milton formed their own association, Santa Rosa Baptist Association, though both associations continue to work together for the glory of God.
Since that November morning in 1887, the PBBA has partnered together to support local churches in their mission to multiply disciples, leaders, and churches through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Currently, the PBBA is pursuing MoonShot2030 - 100 Healthy Churches who together can celebrate 2000 baptisms in the year 2030. Through encouraging our pastors personally and professionally and equipping our churches toward health, we are focused engaging the mission field of Escambia County (and beyond ) with the gospel of Christ Jesus. We affirm that achieving this MoonShot will require More Healthy Churches - more healthy churches (church planting); more healthy churches (revitalizing existing churches). Through the power of prayer and partnership, we look forward to celebrating the achievement of this Moonshot Vision. We are better together and are focused on Helping the Church Be the Church as we declare the name of Jesus in the 21st Century.
Our Mission
PBBA's mission is to support local churches in their mission to multiply disciples, leaders, and churches through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We seek to do this by:
Encouraging – Providing professional and spiritual support for ministers.
PBBA to Staff (PBBA encouraging Ministers & their families)
Pastor to Pastor (Helping connect pastors for encouragement & partnership)
Church to Pastor (Helping to train Churches to Encourage their Pastor)
Equipping – Training and resourcing church leaders to build healthy congregation.
Diagnose (Helping churches identify ministry challenges)
Develop (Helping develop customizable resources & strategies that address
church needs)
Deploy (Coaching churches & leaders to a health future.)
Engaging – Cooperating and serving together in Kingdom ministry.
Pray (Helping Churches to be Houses of Prayer)
Proclaim (Helping Churches carry-out Individual & Cooperative Evangelism)
Plant (Helping churches plant new churches)
Helping the Church BE the Church
