Cloudy skies couldn’t hold back the power of prayer last Thursday. Despite the weather forcing the National Day of Prayer celebration on the courthouse lawn to be moved indoors, the event — which included numerous local officials — was still a standing-room only event.
“He’s a changed man,” said Santa Rosa County Tax Collector Stan Nichols of his youngest son, Bryce, who recently returned from a mission trip to Nicaragua.
First Baptist Church Navarre is hosting the third annual community Military Appreciation Day from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. May 4 at the Soundside pavilions at Navarre Beach.
The story begins with two men walking down the road to the village of Emmaus after Christ was crucified. The men, feeling rather depressed because they had lost their Savior, came upon a stranger. The stranger struck up a conversation with the men and dined with them. It was only after the stranger departed, did the men realize they had been speaking to a risen Christ, their Savior.
Jim Pennington, First Baptist Church Navarre senior pastor, recalls a woman who dropped her head and covered her mouth every time she laughed, especially in church.
