GOOD NEWS WANTS TO KNOW… – Favorite Quote

The Good News
6 Feb 2023
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Good News Media Group, February 2023

As we launch into this New Year, Good News Wants to Know… What is your favorite quote – or words you live by – that may inspire others? Seek first to understand is a very simple yet guiding principle for me. Repeating this to myself when the world is swirling around me with its many pushes and pulls, keeps me focused and humble — allowing me the space to truly listen and be intentional in words and actions.   Germaine Smith Baugh, Ed.D, President and CEO, Urban League of Broward County  The quote that I live by: Live beyond yourself! This I believe is the key […]

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Heart Month Focuses on Affairs of the Heart

The Good News
2 Feb 2023
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, claiming the lives of more than 650,000 people each year. Since February is American Heart Month, we’re featuring one man’s journey to heart health at Holy Cross, Broward’s only Catholic hospital, serving our community for 67 years and a leader in the prevention and treatment of cardiac and vascular diseases. When Doug Wilkins, a 70+ year-old longtime active athlete in overall good health, began having chest pains, he took himself to the emergency department at Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale, where they ran a stress test. The […]

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Holy Cross, Good News Media Group, February 2023

Candlelight Ceremony Held to Remember the Homeless

The Good News
4 Jan 2023
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First United Methodist Church, Good News Media Group, January 2023

A Homeless Persons Memorial was held on December 20 at First United Methodist Church in Fort Lauderdale. The public gathered for the annual candlelight ceremony to remember and recognize the lives of persons who died this year in Broward County while experiencing homelessness. During the service, names of the 98 homeless persons who died in 2022 were read aloud, a bell rang and an ornament was placed on a memorial tree to recognize and pay tribute to our neighbors who died on the streets. Candlelight for the Homeless Broward’s Homeless Persons Memorial Ceremony, an annual event commemorated across the United […]

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Good News Wants to Know… – Super Bowl

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Looking ahead to the Super Bowl season, Good News Wants to Know…. If you were given a 30-second ad slot during the Super Bowl, valued at upwards of $6.5 million in 2022, what would you do with it? I would work with the best creative minds to produce a message that would bring the American people together in a way that we were on September 12th, 2001 – one people, one country. We have much more that unites us than divides us, and we can be a better country if we have a shared love of country first. Chip LaMarca, […]

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Good News Media Group, January 2023

Guardians of Hope Holds Inaugural Huddle

The Good News
19 Dec 2022
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ELITE Foundation, Guardians of Hope Impact Brotherhood, Good News Media Group, December 2022

ELITE Foundation’s Guardians of Hope Impact Brotherhood held its Inaugural Huddle on Saturday, November 19 at Coconut Community Center, featuring Stephan Tchividjian, president of the National Christian Foundation, as the keynote speaker. The ELITE Foundation is on a mission to End Lost Innocence to Exploitation. They are committed to serving the needs of the voiceless victims in our community and vulnerable men and women worldwide that are victims to sexual exploitation.  About Guardians of Hope According to Hamish Reed, treasurer and chairman of the Board, the Guardians of Hope Impact Brotherhood was launched November 19th by a group of men […]

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4KIDS celebrates 25 Years with Benefit Concert

The Good News
8 Dec 2022
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On Friday, November 11th 4KIDS celebrated 25 years of serving over 30,000 lives! It was a memorable evening to honor our past, while reaching to grow beyond! We paid tribute to our founders, heard stories of success and enjoyed musical performances by Mike Donehey and Austin French. It was a beautiful celebration to propel 4KIDS into the next 25 years of impacting thousands more children and families in need. Learn more at 4kids.us For more Good News, read the GOOD NEWS December 2022 issue at: https://digital.goodnewsfl.org/2022/december/  

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4KIDS, Good News Media Group, December 2022

Palm Beach Atlantic University Unveils Plans for New Marshall and Vera Lea Rinker Business Building

The Good News
7 Dec 2022
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Palm Beach Atlantic University, Good News Media Group, December 2022

On November 17, Palm Beach Atlantic University announced the largest single gift in the university’s history along with a capital campaign and plans for construction of a stunning six-story Marshall and Vera Lea Rinker Business Building. Plans for the Future The $26 million gift comes from John J. and Sheila Rinker ($20 million) and the Marshall & Vera Lea Rinker Foundation ($6 million), of which he is the president. University leaders announced the gift Thursday at The Breakers during the launch of a $75 million capital campaign. Rinker’s father was the namesake of the business school and a key benefactor […]

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Gianluca Cueva: What is Faith and Vocation? A Theology of Work

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Will you work in heaven? Day after day we clock in and out from work. But perhaps in the busyness of our days, we don’t tend to think of what our life with the Lord will look like when He returns. What will heaven be like? What will we spend eternity doing? Will we only be singing praises to God endlessly? Or will we be doing more? Will we work in heaven? Depending how we answer this question will determine how much we understand what “Faith and Vocation” truly is. So, before we look to the end and consummation of […]

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Gianluca Cueva, Trinity International University-Florida, Good News Media Group, December 2022

Dr. Joe Saviak: My God Story

The Good News
15 Nov 2022
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Dr. Joe Saviak, Good News Media Group, November 2022

There I sat alone in my office at the college on a Friday night 15 years ago this December.  I’d work late and then head home to try to relax and forget the questions which still bothered me. I had acquired so much knowledge, yet I was certain that I lacked the answers to the most important questions. I had achieved worldly success but felt like a failure. No matter what the world offered, it was always a temporary and ultimately empty solution. I asked myself “Is this all there is to life?” in terms of the earthly things I’d […]

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Habitat for Humanity Kicks Off “Women Build”

The Good News
14 Nov 2022
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Business leader and philanthropist Rita Case challenged other extraordinary South Florida women to meet a dire need in our community—and those leaders rose to the occasion. Rita Case Women Build During the recent groundbreaking ceremony at “The Rita Case Women Build”, this powerhouse group committed to sponsor eight new homes at “A Rick Case Habitat Community” in Pompano Beach, bringing the total number of completed homes in the community to 66. The women are united in their commitment to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing to the underserved in the area. Since its launch in 2002, Habitat Broward’s “Women Build” […]

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Habitat for Humanity, Good News Media Group, November 2022