More than 520 Associates Trained in CPR

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29 Jun 2016
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To celebrate CPR Week in June, TBC Corporation, one of North America’s largest marketers of automotive replacement tires through a multi-channel strategy headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, offered CPR Training to all associates. Training was offered in partnership with Palm Beach County Fire Rescue and the American Heart Association. More than 520 associates completed training to support the company’s commitment to creating a culture of health and heightening awareness. Through worldwide operations spanning retail, franchise and wholesale, TBC provides customers best in class brands and automotive maintenance and repair services with the underlying mission to exceed customer expectations. TBC responds […]

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Church in the Park

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An outreach discipleship ministry, the 180 Project team has been hosting Church in the Park outreach events on Saturday evenings once a month in the Hollywood Arts Park since April. Initiated by Jerry Vega, Terrance Douglas, Alex Duenas, Andre Carrero and Clayton Van Dyke, the vision behind this outreach is to reach the community of Hollywood with the message of the Gospel at Arts Park in Downtown Hollywood. They have had many ministries partnering with them, including Restoration Outreach Center, Grace and Faith Academy, Christian Worship Outreach Center, The Answer Church, Calvary Chapel Hollywood, Stephens Pantry and Goodnews Apparel Collection […]

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ChildNet Celebrates Graduating Students

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ChildNet held its annual Transitional Independent Living (TIL) Program Graduation ceremony and celebration at its Palm Beach County office on June 9. The event honored 34 students who were in foster care and have achieved their high school/college degrees or their GEDs. “While graduation is a major milestone for any student, it is especially gratifying for this group of students,” said Larry Rein, Executive Director of ChildNet in Palm Beach County. “Many of whom have had to overcome obstacles most of us have never faced”. At the celebration, AT&T Pioneers of Florida presented 25 graduates with brand new laptops, valued […]

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Camp Identify Students Serve at Hepzibah House

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Forty-two students from Camp Identify participated in a camp-related service activity on June 23. The students painted, cleaned up debris, planted shrubs and cleaned. This group project was for a faith based nonprofit ministry called Hepzibah House located in Boynton Beach, Florida. Hepzibah House rehabilitates women who have been enslaved in the sex industry. During their season of abuse, many of the women also become addicted to alcohol and drugs. At Hepzibah House, women in recovery are lovingly brought back to wholeness through an encouraging supportive staff. Camp Identify is a five-day leadership training camp that specializes in inspiring teen […]

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Broward College Holds Groundbreaking for New Aviation Facility

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Broward College and Diversified Companies celebrated the groundbreaking for a new aviation facility at North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines on May 26. Broward College will lease three hangars for its Aviation Maintenance Management Associate of Science program, and will house four classrooms, faculty offices, and shop space in its 13,500 square feet. Broward College President J. David Armstrong Jr. joined Broward County Board of Trustee David Maymon, Dean of Transportation Programs Russ McCaffery, Nancy Botero, Vice President of Advancement and Executive Director of the Broward College Foundation and elected officials at the ceremonial turning of the earth to officially […]

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Few Syrian Christians Get Asylum in U.S., Despite Genocide Declaration

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7 Jun 2016
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(WNS)–Two months after the Obama administration called out militant terror group Islamic State (ISIS) for committing genocide against Christians in Iraq and Syria, refugee data show those finding a safe haven in the United States are not the ones suffering the most persecution. Last year, President Barack Obama set the goal of bringing 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States in fiscal year 2016. So far, the State Department is on track to fall well short of that number, with only about 2,700 successfully resettled. State Department figures show 499 Syrian refugees have resettled in America this month, but not […]

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Massive Prayer and Worship Event Expected to Draw Huge Crowd to National Mall in July

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  Crowds will gather in Washington, D.C. this summer. The sound will hit high volume. But this event won’t be a ball game, a superstar’s performance, a political protest, or a presidential debate. Those who travel to the nation’s capital won’t be there for pleasure or rebellion or politics. They will come together and pray. They are seeking to worship together. They are hoping to experience God’s love together. On July 16, in the National Mall of Washington, D.C., followers of Christ from around the world will meet for Together 2016. Their plans? To pray for a new revival to […]

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Fight to End Child Sex Trafficking Comes to the Big Screen

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  Posing as American sex tourists wanting to buy children, the Operation Underground Railroad’s (O.U.R.) jump team, led by Tim Ballard, meets with traffickers. They negotiate. Dozens of hidden cameras capture the darkness of human trafficking at a party with girls — 12, 13, 14 years old — in Cartagena, Colombia, with younger girls and boys at an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In “The Abolitionists,” the action is real. Light comes into the darkness as seven traffickers are arrested. Hope comes to the hopeless as 57 victims are rescued. “Some people lose their faith over such evil,” said Tim Ballard, […]

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Ways Students Can Use Summer Vacation to Prepare for the Future

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Is your family thinking about the skills and experience your child needs for college and future success? The majority of college admission officers recommend that students start preparing before or by ninth grade. Yet, more than half of middle level students haven’t started prepping for college, according to statistics from the National Honor Society (NHS) and National Junior Honor Society (NJHS). Experts say that summer is the perfect time for children to get ahead in building skills and experience for the journey to and through college and lifelong success. “It’s never too early to start building your future,” says Jonathan […]

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Mentor Programs Help Former Foster Youth Soar

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  Racquell Perry, a former foster child and newly-minted lawyer, is on a mission. The 26-year-old earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) in Tallahassee in just three years, a law degree from FAMU three years later and soared past the Florida bar exam last month. What’s her new quest? To help other young people from foster care, and the adults involved in their lives, learn about campus-based programs to help former foster youth excel in college. “Growing up I was surrounded by poverty, and I was not happy about how things were […]

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