Paul Provost was born in the Florida Keys in 1965. His family moved to central Florida in 1970 where he attend Orlando Baptist Temple and then Palm Spring Drive Baptist Church. After his mother's death in 1974 he moved back to the Keys to live with his grandparents where he attended Key West Baptist Temple. At the age of ten he went through the motions of a conversion but did not accept Christ as his Savior. His father remarried in 1977 and Bro. Provost moved back to central Florida and attended Palmetto Ave. Baptist Church.
In the fall of 1987 Bro. Provost started attending Atlantic Baptist Bible College. He was saved in his second year of Bible College in November. In July of 1989 he married Cindy, and had his first child, Rachael, one year later. A few months after graduating in May of 1991 he moved to Miami, began attending Grace Baptist Church and working at Grace Baptist Academy. His second child, Ruthanne, was born in 1993. He has been on staff in various roles of church and school ministry and in February 2023 was chosen to be Pastor.
MUSIC DIRECTOR / DEACON
Jeff Allen was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. He trusted Christ as his Savior when he was sixteen years old. He attended Massillon Baptist College in Massillon, Ohio, where he met his wife Janet. In 1986, he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sacred Music.
Jeff and Janet returned to southwestern Ohio and served in various churches’ music ministries for the next twenty-six years. They have two married daughters, who serve the Lord alongside their families in their local churches.
After moving to Florida in 2012, they started attending Grace Baptist Church in 2020. Shortly after that, Jeff became the church music director, as he continues to serve the Lord with his life and to worship Him with God-honoring music.