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Mar 14, 2024

Large cross, prayer wall now a fixture at local business

If you walk into Dawn’s Cookies and Café, you might see a large cross on the wall opposite the cash register. The cross is part of what Dawn Funk calls a “prayer wall,” or a place where people can place notes asking for people to pray for them or a loved one.

Mar 7, 2024

New Life Deliverance Temple Church celebrates black history

Each February, the contributions of African Americans are recognized with Black History Month. Schools, businesses, nonprofits, churches and other organizations have used the month-long acknowledgement as a way to educate and inspire new generations.

Feb 23, 2024

Navarre resident continues help of African villages with recent visit to Togo

For the past five years, Rachel Coggins has been traveling to the African nation of Togo to help improve some of the country’s educational and agricultural infrastructure.

Feb 20, 2024

New church, same Methodist

Over the past couple of years, the United Methodist Church has been fracturing. Split over the direction of the denomination and the question of gay people being allowed to be ordained, thousands of churches have severed ties with the United Methodists.

Feb 12, 2024

What is Ash Wednesday?

With the good times and festivities of Mardi Gras over, Christians, particularly those in the Catholic tradition, turn their attention and focus on Christ for a six-week period known as Lent. Ash Wednesday, observed Feb. 14 this year, is the first day of Lent, a season of prayer and fasting. Notable as a day when believers have ashes in the shape of a cross placed upon their foreheads, Ash Wednesday has a long history.

Feb 7, 2024

Navarre Independent Chapel’s Archer has preached for over six decades

If you think 50 years in any career field is a milestone, try 65.

That’s how long Bob Archer, who turns 91 in 2024, has been preaching the Lord’s Word. Archer has been pastor of Navarre Chapel, an independent Baptist congregation located next door to Navarre’s Walmart Supercenter.


Jan 26, 2024

No date set for Destiny Worship Center opening

It has been a little over a year since Destiny Worship Center broke ground on a Navarre campus. Since then, the lot has been cleared, the framework of a building has been erected and work on the site has steadily progressed.

Jan 22, 2024

Calvary Chapel Navarre making a name for itself

When Pastor Randy Pitman planted Calvary Chapel – Navarre, he never intended or thought it would grow the way it has. According to Pitman, unlike many churches around the nation, churches around northwest Florida, especially his, have to deal with the constant ebb and flow of growth and decline in their numbers.

Jan 12, 2024

Churches respond to storm damage

“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.” – Psalm 46:1-3.

Jan 11, 2024

Navarre church leaders look to New Year

With all the uncertainty in the world today, from war in Israel and Palestine to political divisions in the United States, many people are looking at 2024 as an opportunity to begin anew and help find answers for the questions in their lives. Churches, and the people who lead them, provide that opportunity.
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