New Adventist Center Opens

By THE TAMPA TRIBUNE | Tbo.com
Published: December 18, 2007

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TAMPA - First University Seventh-day Adventist Church has opened a new worship center.

The church, which has English- and Spanish-language congregations, bought the building, at 2225 E. 109th Ave., for $1.67 million from the New Life Tabernacle Pentecostal Church.

First University's Spanish-language congregation remains at 1212 E. 139th Ave., which is in a largely Hispanic community.

First University Seventh-day Adventist started as a tent effort 12 years ago by six people working in street ministry in the community west of the University of South Florida.

That group and those it had baptized were chartered in 1996 as the 114th congregation of the Southeastern Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

About 200 people now attend the English services, and about 125 attend Spanish services. The pastor is Shimon M. Taylor.

Lenora Lake