Student athletes can lead busy lives. From keeping up with homework to attending practice to their home life, the responsibilities they have can be quite demanding.
For some athletes at local high schools, they have found an outlet through the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA).
Apostolic Lighthouse Church, which has been holding services in the Navarre community for nearly 20 years, will soon hold their third annual Forged: Men of Steel Conference Thursday, Feb. 9, through Sunday, Feb. 12.
Apostolic Lighthouse Church, which has been holding services in the Navarre community for nearly 20 years, will soon hold their third annual Forged: Men of Steel Conference Thursday, Feb. 9, through Sunday, Feb. 12.
The main focus of the conference, according to pastor Nathaniel Kallam, is to help men become better dads, better husbands and better people overall. They do this through prayer, fellowship, and listening to sermons delivered by guest speakers.
There have been a number of Christian-centered religious schools that have opened in Santa Rosa County in the past decade.
LEAD Academy, located in Chumuckla, will be celebrating 10 years as a school this year. Since that time, Gulf Pointe Latin School in Navarre has opened, as has Coastline Christian Academy in Oriole Beach.
A crowd of 100 people gathered Thursday, Jan. 19, to witness and celebrate the groundbreaking of Destiny Worship Center’s new Navarre campus. While the campus is currently an open field, people associated with the church came together to recognize the start of construction and a new chapter.
Steve Vaggalis, the founder and senior pastor of Destiny Worship Center, gave a speech at the groundbreaking ceremony letting the crowd know he was grateful to all the people who had helped make Destiny Worship Center a successful church.
For many Christian church congregations, they set out to go on mission trips across the world to make a difference in people’s lives and promote the message of Christ.
Not too many think about a church body coming to their town and changing their lives, but that is what happened at Billory Baptist Church in Holley.
Every January, people make new year’s resolutions. For some, it’s exercising more. For others, it’s focusing on their mental health.
And for members of local churches, like East Bay Church and Momentum Church, it’s about getting reacquainted in their relationship with Jesus Christ.
Even after five years as Bishop with the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Bishop William “Bill” Wack said he is just getting started.
Over the past few years, Wack (pronounced wok) and the Diocese have had to deal with several issues which have taken away the church’s ability to map out the future.
Growing up, Dylan White wasn’t very religious. When White was 15 years old, he decided to search for religion.
That journey led him to Messianic Judaism, a sect which incorporates Jesus (or Yeshua) as Messiah into the more traditional aspects of Jewish life. Now he is starting his own Messianic Jewish ministry, New Light Community, in Navarre.
