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State invests in faith-based organizations to help communities

| Ken Garner
The Northwest Florida Health Network told church and faith-based nonprofit leaders last week that it can fund their community-based social services without interfering in how those services are provided.

“Governor DeSantis has had his people do all the legal work,” the Rev. Rick Hazelip of First City Church said Thursday, Oct. 19, at a “Faith Summit” at Brownsville Church. “All we have to do is open up our services to anybody, regardless of their beliefs. And then we do what we do.”

The Northwest Florida Health Network on Thursday, Oct. 19, presented awards of $5,000 each to 16 faith-based organizations, including Bible Way Baptist Church in Milton, to help teach teen methamphetamine prevention.

 

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