Faith Archive

Students gather their desks in a circle in a Navarre High School classroom early Friday morning.

A Navarre church is inviting the community to experience an Easter journey: a live reenactment of events from the Holy Week leading up to Christ’s resurrection.

Momentum Church will host its third annual community-wide Easter gatherings on Sunday, April 5, at two locations: Gulf Breeze Middle School at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.; and Navarre High School at 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Enjoy live music with a band, an inspiring message by lead pastor Tim Payne, and a day of celebration as a community.

Pope Francis says nothing can justify the use of the death penalty and there is no “right” way to humanely kill another person.

With yarn in their fingers and skeins at their feet, three women sit in a quiet church parlor. Loop by loop, they add to the prayer shawls in their laps.

Hours after learning about last week’s fatal Black Hawk helicopter crash, which took the lives of 11 servicemen, Navarre First Assembly of God on U.S. 98 announced it would host a candlelight ceremony open to the public.

Navarre resident David Jeffers’ only son, Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, was killed in Iraq in 2007. During his struggle with grief, Jeffers began writing devotionals – more than 1,000 of them – which he’s now publishing in a series of books.

Just before the last session of prayer chaplain training, one of the Rev. Debra Bissell’s students called to cancel. Bissell learned that the woman had just lost her pet and she was too upset to attend class.

On a recent Sunday, a couple of hours before their kids were supposed to come over, Robert “Smitty” Smith called his wife to his bedside and told her, “I’m sorry. I don’t think I can make it.”

The 18th-century Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra is expected to be elevated to sainthood this fall in Washington, D.C.