Divisions within a church can happen. Individual churches, or entire denominational affiliations, can splinter for a variety of reasons including irreconcilable differences over ministry, goals of the church and personal relationships.
Every year, Pregnancy Resource Center of Navarre (PRCN) puts on their annual benefit event to raise money for their mission – saving babies, one mother at a time. This year’s event was a Marital Bliss Comedy Night featuring pastor and comedian Phil Gungor from Green Bay, Wisconsin. The sanctuary at Community Life Church in Gulf Breeze was packed August 24.
Since the ninth century, Christian pilgrims have journeyed along a network of paths across France, Portugal and Spain to visit the shrine of the apostle James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain.
The pilgrimage, known as the Way of St. James or Camino Santiago, encompasses hundreds of miles of trails through cities and countryside. According to some scholars and historians, it is also the route James the greater took into Spain, where he preached the gospel. He is said to have been buried in Santiago de Compostela.
Like father, like son. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Following in your father’s footsteps.
Whatever expression you want to use, Rev. David Morris, 36, certainly embodies it. Morris was named as the new lead pastor at Navarre United Methodist Church a few months ago and officially took over the position July 1.
Living in faith as a Christian can be difficult unless you have a firm foundation in Christ upon which to stand. At the Rock United Pentecostal Church, pastor Jonathan Arneault and others are trying to provide that solid place to stand for everyone who walks through their doors.
Jim Waters is the “associational mission strategist” for the Santa Rosa Baptist Association.
What does he do? Whatever he can do to help the association’s 38 member churches and their pastors.
A recent survey by the American Bible Society concluded that Christians who are actively engaged in studying their faith’s scriptures “flourish in every domain of human experience.”
Casting Crowns, Tauren Wells, for KING & COUNTRY, and Passion will join evangelist Scott Dawson on stage for UNITE: Gulf Coast beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 21-22, at the Pensacola Bay Center. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
To reserve free tickets or reserve tickets and donate to the UNITE Movement, go to unitesdea.org.
During the summer, churches typically send out volunteers on mission trips to places like Central America or Africa. For Risen Savior Lutheran Church in Navarre, they became the destination.
The church welcomed seven teenagers and two chaperones from Wisconsin Lutheran High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Saturday, June 24.
Billory Baptist Church in Holley is constantly striving to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ in this world. Part of that mission is ministry work, namely the ‘Bread of Life’ Food Pantry and Clothing Closet, which is ran directly out of the church.
