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Billy Graham Rapid Response Team Deployed Chaplains to Florida After Shooting at MSD

Shooting at Stoneman Douglas High! The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team deployed crisis-trained chaplains to Parkland following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14. “Our hearts break for the parents who sent their children to school, and are now with them in the hospital, or living a parent’s worst nightmare,” said Jack Munday, international director of the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team. “So many lives have been forever changed by this evil act. As we pray for the students, faculty and families, we know God can bring hope and comfort, in Jesus Christ, in the […]

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Adopt-A-School Tailgate Party Raises Over $90,000

  Gregg Wallick, President of Best Roofing, received an Award of Appreciation for his service as the Chairman of the Board of the Broward Chapter of Fellowship of Christian Athletes during their Adopt-A-School Tailgate Party held at Banyan Air’s Hanger at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on February 27. The Legend Bobby Bowden was the featured speaker at the event, which encouraged supporters to support FCA as they minister to student athletes in Broward schools. Over 500 people attended the event, which raised over $90,000 to sponsor coaches and student athletes in summer camp programs.

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Place of Hope Staff to Educate Young People on Human Trafficking

  Place of Hope, Palm Beach County’s largest children’s organization; the Boca West Children’s Foundation; and other partners are fighting to interrupt the recruitment of more young people into the human trafficking system with another weapon – face-to-face education. With a $25,000 grant from the Foundation’s Dream Maker Society, Place of Hope added a Human Trafficking Prevention and Education Coordinator to its staff. Laura MacFarland’s job is to talk directly to youth about how to avoid becoming a statistic. Additionally, MacFarland is educating and training Palm Beach County residents, Place of Hope volunteers, corporate partners and other nonprofit agencies on […]

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Boca Raton Christian School Seniors Sign Letters of Intent

Boca Raton Christian School senior, Emily Smith, signed a National Letter of Intent to play soccer with Nyack College in New York in a ceremony on February 8, 2018. Emily started playing soccer in 5th grade and has long held the goal of continuing to play at a Christian college. Emily captained the Boca Christian soccer team all four years, playing midfielder/defender. She has also played for Wellington Wave Travel Club, Team Boca and guest played for Boca United, East Islip Storm and Cooper City Cobras, in addition to participating in Florida’s Olympic Development Program. She is a top state […]

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Westminster Academy’s FIRST Robotics Team 744 Advocates for STEM Education

  On Tuesday, February 13, Westminster Academy’s FIRST Robotics Team 744 traveled to Tallahassee to participate in STEM Day at the Capitol with leaders from science centers and museums from around the state, the Orlando Science Center, and the Motorola Solutions Foundation. The team demonstrated their 2017 robot in the Capitol Rotunda and the Capitol Courtyard to an audience of state senators and representatives. They worked closely with Sandra Contreras, Regional Director of FIRST South Florida, to create an awareness of the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education and FIRST Robotics and to lobby for increased funding […]

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Church United Hosted A Community Prayer Vigil for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Speaking as one voice, representatives of Church United, hosted a community prayer vigil for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Thursday, February 15. Students, friends and family gathered on the lawn at Parkridge Church located just one mile from the scene of the horrific shooting that took the lives of 14 students and three adults so abruptly and left our community in mourning. Parkridge Church originally met at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when it was founded in 1992 and Pastor Eddie Bevel, its founder, said many of their church families have students who attend the local school. Church United […]

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First Priority Responds to MSD Shooting

On February 14, 2018, a day that is usually filled with celebration turned into tragedy as a gunman stepped onto the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and brutally took the lives of 17 students and faculty. Most everyone in our community has felt the weight of this, but for First Priority Club leaders and students, it was very personal, as one of their club members, Helena Ramsay, 17, of Coral Springs, was among the victims. First Priority’s mission is “connecting the Church to reach the campus for Christ.” Their team, in conjunction with area churches, has been actively […]

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Columbine Survivor Shares a Message of Hope in the Aftermath of Parkland Tragedy

As the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School began to play out in the media on Valentine’s Day, the world took notice. For Crystal Miller, a survivor of the shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado 19 years ago, the events were far too familiar. Having survived the scene of the most intense violence, she now speaks from a place of understanding and has authored Marked for Life: Choosing Hope and Discovering Purpose in the Midst of Suffering. Crystal came to South Florida to meet with students, faculty and families from Douglas and spoke at several venues, including […]

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Billy Graham, Evangelist to the World, Dead at Age 99

Evangelist Billy Graham died Wednesday, February 21 at 7:46 a.m. at his home in Montreat. He was 99.   Throughout his life, Billy Graham preached the gospel of Jesus Christ to some 215 million people who attended one of his more than 400 Crusades, simulcasts and evangelistic rallies in more than 185 countries and territories. He reached millions more through TV, video, film, the internet and 34 books.   Born Nov. 7, 1918, four days before the armistice ended World War I, William Franklin “Billy” Graham Jr. grew up during the Depression and developed a work ethic that would carry […]

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40 Days of Prayer Encouraged to End Abortion

People in Broward and across the world will be praying for an end to abortion during a special 40-day campaign of prayer, fasting and community outreach, February 14 to March 25. It’s called 40 Days for Life, a peaceful, highly-focused, non-denominational initiative during which participants enlist God’s aid to end abortion through peaceful vigil outside abortion facilities, fasting, and by pro-life witness to their local community. The local expressions of 40 Days for Life will feature prayer vigils in the public right-of-way outside Fort Lauderdale Women’s Center, 2001 West Oakland Park Blvd., and A Woman’s Center of Hollywood, 3829 Hollywood […]

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