Fun and Budget-Friendly Ways to Celebrate Love on Valentine’s Day

Lydia Hicks
5 Feb 2019
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Valentine’s Day is here again! Exciting, right? Ahhh….not really. You are single, without a significant other or a couple struggling to find a romantically engaging and fun way to enliven your relationship. Well, as the Beatles sing, “All You Need is Love.” Put your love into action and join me as we journey through enriching activity ideas for varying budget levels from relationship and family experts.   For Singles Don’t be discouraged. Tom Corner, motivational speaker and author of Borrowed Eyes and Feet: Finding Enlightenment After Rage, inspires singles to not “fall for the illusion that the world was suddenly overtaken […]

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“The Least of These” – The Eye-Opening Story of Missionary Graham Staines

Lydia Hicks
4 Jan 2019
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An unbelievable display of love, “The Least of These” captures the missionary journey of the late Graham Staines, an Australian missionary, whose incessant dedication to the lepers of India attracted speculative media investigation, leading to his martyrdom in 1999. Opening in theaters February 1, 2019, this movie marks the 20th anniversary of Staines’ horrific assassination for serving the outcast lepers of India – one of the most severe persecutions in the history of Christianity. “The death of Dr. Graham Staines, 58, director of the Leprosy Mission in Baripada, Orissa, India, and translator of the New Testament into the Ho tribe […]

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“The Gospel According to Scrooge” is a Rare Musical of a Redemptive Christmas

Lydia Hicks
8 Nov 2018
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“The Gospel According to Scrooge” stage production returns for its second year, bringing Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to life in ministry to South Florida’s communities this December. Revelation Ministries, South Florida’s Christian performing arts organization, will present this free Christmas production at New Covenant Church on December 1, at Community of Hope on December 7 & 9, and at St. Paul Lutheran Church on December 15 & 16. Revelation Ministries’ Director Oksana Horton shared that this two-act Christmas musical performance with vivacious acting, singing and dancing “is an unforgettable story of how a life can be truly transformed by […]

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New Mount Olive Baptist Church Celebrates 100th Anniversary

Lydia Hicks
1 Nov 2018
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Established November 25, 1918, New Mount Olive Baptist Church marks its Centennial year with a series of spectacular festivities. After its historic exhibit, senior luncheon gala, annual cookout and choir reunion concert in October, the church will host its 100th Anniversary Gala and Centennial Worship Service, November 9 and 11 respectively. Dr. Marcus D. Davidson, Senior Pastor since 2009, noted, “I have come to know New Mount Olive Baptist Church as being open to focused leadership, amenable to change, and ready to move progressively forward with ministry that impacts the lives of those within the church and community.” The ministry […]

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Rock the Universe™ 2018: A Weekend of Fantastic Music and Spectacular Thrills

Lydia Hicks
8 Aug 2018
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Florida’s largest Christian music festival, Rock the Universe™, returns on September 7 and 8 with a weekend of soul-stirring music, faith and fun! The event will showcase top GRAMMY, Dove and Billboard award-winning artists such as TobyMac and Casting Crowns. Pack your bags and get ready for a dazzling, entertaining and worshipful weekend with thrilling rides and rocking artists. You can enter for a chance to win tickets or the Grand Prize Rock the Universe™ prize pack for four at goodnewsfl.org/rtu2018. Imagine yourself riding among your favorite super heroes. Check. Then you shake hands with Optimus Prime. Check. Next thing, […]

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A “Beautifully Broken” World in the True Story of Three Unlikely Families

Lydia Hicks
2 Aug 2018
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How far will a dad go to save his family? How can a teenage daughter express her deepest nightmares and free herself from the bondage of the past? What makes a man leave his entire family in a war-torn country and follow “God’s calling” to build a new life he cannot yet see? These are three primary questions that “Beautifully Broken,” based on a true life story, answers. With major actors such as Scott William Winters (“Lethal Weapon” television series), Benjamin Onyango (“God’s Not Dead,”) and renowned Christian artists Toby McKeehan and Michael W. Smith, “Beautifully Broken” is a dramatic display of God’s […]

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Nick Vujicic Brings Hope and Healing

Lydia Hicks
3 Apr 2018
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“As a kid, I never thought that anything good could ever come from my broken pieces….you know, I went to school and kids would look at me and be like ‘what happened,’ and I go ‘cigarettes’ (audience laughs),” Nick Vujicic, evangelist, author, speaker, and president of Life Without Limbs, said with comic relief. At the March 11 Church by the Glades “Hope & Healing” special event for the Parkland community of first responders, teachers and students, Vujicic used his life experience and humor to help heal the pain still felt in the aftermath of the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman […]

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Resolution Sheds Light on Link Between Porn and Sex Trafficking

Lydia Hicks
1 Jan 2018
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Florida lawmakers are pushing for a resolution to declare pornography a health crisis. As our state advances in this process, at least five others have moved ahead and passed resolutions acknowledging the public health crisis that pornography creates, according to FighttheNewDrug.org. They are Arkansas, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia. The state legislatures of Florida, Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina, and West Virginia are currently reviewing resolutions of the same kind. Fight the New Drug, an organization that creatively educates the world about the harmful effects of pornography, stated in its 2017 NoPornovember global fight for love campaign, “When a Governor […]

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Community Brings Hurricane Relief

Lydia Hicks
5 Oct 2017
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In the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, South Floridians, nonprofits and church communities are giving intentionally to bring relief to the hardest hit areas in the Keys and Puerto Rico. As the Acts 2 Church shared its possessions “with all, as anyone might have need” (Acts 2:45), so are faith-based organizations and community leaders. While it would be impossible to recognize them all, here are a few who are making a difference worthy of support. Foster kids give back On September 18, Place of Hope, a unique faith-based family-style foster care organization, gathered a group of church volunteers and […]

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Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church Plans to Launch LauderdaleLead

Lydia Hicks
31 Aug 2017
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Businesspeople from all walks of life meet monthly at Boca Raton Community Church for BocaLead to enjoy a casual lunch and take away a few principles to help their professional life grow. This popular event, pioneered by Pastor Bill Mitchell, a businessman for 25 years, is now being offered in Fort Lauderdale beginning in September as LauderdaleLead. While BocaLead will take place September 7 at Boca Raton Community Church, LauderdaleLead will launch on September 21 at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, with Mitchell initially sharing the same lesson introduced at the earlier event. “The Heart of a Leader,” “Lead by Example,” […]

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