Palm Beach

Revealing the Foster Care Crisis Close to Home

Shelly Pond
1 May 2018
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If a child was in trouble in your backyard, would you help? Every day, 7 to 11 kids are removed from their homes in South Florida due to abuse and neglect. Their lives are turned upside down as they enter the foster care system with no place to call their own. These children and teens live in your neighborhood. You pass them by in grocery stores and in your schools. Their crisis is Close to Home. Divulging the Foster Care Crisis In our community, there are not enough foster homes for kids. Children are often separated from their siblings, sent […]

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Get Connected: Local Ministries for Young Adults

Tori Sollars
3 Feb 2014
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So you’re a young adult, living in an era of tech, tech, tech, and busy, busy, busy. This fine age, this journey into adulthood, has a sure way of making life feel consumed with responsibilities – jobs, assignments, projects and careers. Amidst the to-do lists and the distractions, however, we must remember that today is a precious gift. It is essential for us to connect, to grow, and to be sharpened together with our neighbors through local ministries. South Florida offers countless ministries, outreaches, events, and group involvements that will specifically connect you with other like-minded, college-age and career-age young […]

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Emmazing Grace: Answering the Call

Cresonia Hsieh
7 Sep 2012
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Have you seen a 12-year-old girl lately? If so, they were probably texting on their shiny new cell phone, watching a movie at the movie theater, shopping at name brand stores with their mothers, or belting out lyrics to the latest Billboard Hot 100 song from the car next to you at the red light. But, have you ever met a 12-year-old girl attempting to change the world? Well, if you have had the pleasure of meeting Emma Rice, then you certainly have. Emma Rice is a normal 12-year-old girl who enjoys dancing to music, making arts and crafts, hanging […]

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Changing Lives of Inner-City Kids for Christ

Dabney Hedegard
1 Mar 2011
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Fleeing police at age nineteen, Terryon was shot twice; once in the chest and another in the arm during an attempted armed robbery. He spent a month in the hospital, then three years in prison. Although an unfortunate story, Terryon’s situation is not uncommon in the area he’s from: the inner-city. However, there is hope for kids and teens in downtown West Palm Beach. Urban Youth Impact (UYI) is an organization founded by Bill Hobbs (known as Mr. Bill on campus), whose mission is to love, equip and empower inner-city youth and their parents to fulfill their God-given purpose. Terryon’s […]

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Serving Aces for the Christ

The Good News
2 Feb 2011
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David Wheaton was one of the top professional tennis players in the world. During his 13 years on tour from 1988-2001, David reached the semifinals or better in singles or doubles of every Grand Slam tournament (including the semi-finals of singles at Wimbledon), attained a career-high singles world ranking of  #12, won the prestigious Grand Slam Cup, represented the United States in Davis Cup competition and scored victories over notable players such as Andre Agassi, Jimmy Connors, Stefan Edberg, Ivan Lendl, Jim Courier and Michael Chang. David is still involved in tennis; he plays professionally part-time (he won the Wimbledon […]

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Hope and Encouragement on the front lines

Marisa Zeppieri Caruana
3 Dec 2010
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When we step out in faith, asking God to bless our hands in our endeavor to give Him glory, it is not surprising to be met with an unimaginable outcome. Lynelle Chauncey Zelnar, of Palm Beach, knows this firsthand, as she has watched her initial desire to help others be transformed into a well-known national organization that touches men and women on the front lines in the war overseas. It all started back in 2003, when Lynelle was working as a full-time property manager. She remembers one of her co-workers living with the daily stress of having a son who […]

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The story behind the songs at Christmas time

Anitra Parmele
25 Nov 2010
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It’s the moment when the phrase captures you…”O come, O come Emmanuel and ransom captive Israel” as you’re standing in the coffee aisle at the grocery store. It’s the CD where you listen to the whole thing and not just cherry pick your favorites off iTunes because this is Bing Crosby. It’s the neighbor’s little boy dressed up in his dad’s bathrobe as he tilts back his head and belts out We Three Kings. It’s the recognition that regardless of our church attendance record, most of us know the words to Silent Night’s second verse. It’s the realization that the […]

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Churches do missions “in-house”

Bryon Mondok
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How churches do missions is changing. Traditionally, prospective missionaries leave their church families to join mission organizations to execute the vision and tasks of the organizations. But here in South Florida, churches themselves fulfill the role of the mission agency. Calvary Chapel Boynton Beach, First Baptist of Fort Lauderdale, Calvary Church in Jupiter, Grace Fellowship in West Palm Beach Florida, Calvary Chapel Port St. Lucie, and Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale, are planning projects, training missionaries, and staffing their own cross-cultural mission ventures with people from their own church communities. “The possibilities for churches and their missions involvement are endless,” says […]

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