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Volunteers Prepare For Christmas All Year Long

Shelly Pond
6 Aug 2015
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During the steamy months of summer, Christmas is typically the furthest from our minds, but Operation Christmas Child volunteers celebrate Christmas in July and all throughout the year by connecting with the community to collect donations and pack gift boxes.   Shoe box packing party On August 15 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., Lake Worth Christian School, located at 7592 High Ridge Road, Boynton Beach, will host a “Shoebox Packing Party” to put together special gift-filled boxes to be sent to impoverished nations around the world by Operation Christmas Child to open doors to sharing God’s love. Lake Worth […]

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Back to School Tax Break Set for August 7 – 16

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5 Aug 2015
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Legislation was passed to create a 10-day sales tax holiday that will begin at 12:01 a.m., Friday, August 7 and end at 11:59 p.m., Sunday, August 16. During this period, no Florida sales tax or local option tax will be collected on sales of clothing, footwear, certain accessories selling for $100 or less per item, on certain school supplies selling for $15 or less per item and on the first $750 of the sales price for computers and certain computer-related accessories when purchased for noncommercial home or personal use. According to the law, “school supplies” means anything necessary to school […]

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Fasting for Body, Soul and Spirit

Andrea Goff
4 Aug 2015
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Fasting

  It goes against the grain for the average American to deny himself anything, let alone food. As a self-confessed chocoholic, fasting to aid in healing my Lyme disease induced arthritis was never my first option. When the side effects of conventional medications became unbearable, a nutritionist opened my eyes to the dismal state of our food chain. Pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, dyes and preservatives, all contribute towards the toxicity that our bodies have to fight on a daily basis. By taking these out of the picture and shutting down my digestive system, I diverted the energy used in digestion to […]

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Memoirs Peek Into The Life of Hazel Hoskins

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Hazel Hoskins, a missionary who shared God’s Word on every continent alongside her preacher husband Bob, passed away on June 22, 2015 at the age of 81. Never being content to just “sit there” in this temporal life, Hazel now sits at the throne of Jesus. Born October 3, 1933, Hazel grew up in Bangor, Maine, the eldest daughter of Pentecostal pastor parents Clifford and Helen Crabtree. A 1954 alumnus of Central Bible College in Missouri, Hazel married evangelist Bob Hoskins in 1959 after a long courtship. Immediately after marrying, Bob and Hazel began their lifelong service as missionaries to […]

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There’s Something Better Than A Dream

Steve Davis
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Activate your dream

  Have you noticed? Your life is changing. Typically, when we read about how to deal with life changes, we find a discussion about dreams, visions and goals. But, there’s something better than a dream. Yes, dreams are important, and should not be minimized. Dreams give us a focus, show us where to go, what to find, and what we really want to have, but dreaming is not the most important. The word better doesn’t mean that other things are not good; it just means, in a list of things, there’s one thing better. So, dreams and visions; hopes, ideas […]

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Choral Music in a World of Fading Arts

Gabriella Morris
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  As the world becomes more and more centered on technology and science, the arts seem to be fading. While math and science are necessary, it’s essential we don’t lose sight of the beautiful effect music has on people. One of the most influential ways to study music is through a choir. Chorus America launched a study in 2009 that investigated the impact group singing had on students. The results are astounding. The study shows that the percentage of children in choir getting straight A’s is higher than those who aren’t. It displays that a majority of the children who […]

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Creation Studies Institute Team Digs Dinosaur Bones in Montana

The Good News
3 Aug 2015
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Creation Studies Institute

A team of 15 from Creation Studies Institute (CSI) composed of Executive Director Tom DeRosa and participants of all ages from all over the United States participated in the 2015 Dino Dig, July 15-19 in Montana. The goal was to unearth the remains of dinosaurs that once roamed the earth while making the vital connection to God’s Word. Since 2005 CSI has brought many together to meet at the heart of the Badlands in Glendive, Montana. Dinosaurs like the famous Tyrannosaurs along with Triceratops, Pachycephalasaurs, Hadrosaurids (duck bills) and many others roamed this area, which is identified as the Hell […]

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Creating a Family Mission Statement

Vickie Estler
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  Time passes quickly. Goodbye to the hazy, lazy days of summer. Hello to getting ready for school and college. Checking items off our “to get” list and merely thinking about schedules and routines make our heads swim. A new school year calls for recommitment and is the perfect time to create a Family Mission Statement. Trust me; like any well-planned vacation or activity schedule, if we do not plan, we will miss the opportunity to establish purpose and wander aimlessly throughout the year. “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1 NLT). […]

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Veteran Receives New Home As A Gift

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Building Homes for Heroes

For USMC Lance Corporal Nick Ellis, July 17’s Building Homes for Heroes Welcome Home ceremony was both heartwarming and bittersweet. Ellis, a South Florida Marine Corps veteran, who was gifted a mortgage-free home in Oakland Park, Florida, just learned the news a few hours prior about his fellow Marine and friend, Sgt. Thomas Sullivan, being killed in a tragic shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee the day before. On the verge of tears, Ellis said, “I believe, and I’m accepting this home on behalf of Thomas as well because he’s a good man.” Sullivan helped Ellis in 2005 during the Battle of […]

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A Time Decision

John Hawkins, Sr
2 Aug 2015
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  In the words of those 1960’s philosophers, The Animals, “It’s my life and I’ll do what I want.” The life philosophy championed by them and others in this decade was “I’ll spend my life or time the way I think best.” Is the most satisfying and profitable use of our time found in doing what we want? Time is a valuable commodity. It is the essence of life and once spent is forever gone. When born into this world each of us are assigned a limited amount of time (Psalm 90:10). None of us knows when our allotment is […]

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