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2021 Graduates March Into The Future With Flexibility and Resolve

Shelly Pond
3 Jun 2021
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Kudos to the Class of 2021! Having completed their senior year in the midst of a global pandemic, they will walk across the stage to receive their diplomas and step into a culture evolving at breakneck speed. This class has demonstrated “dedication, determination, flexibility and resolve. They maintained amazing attitudes, did not complain and worked hard to make this a meaningful year,” said Dr. Ron Farrar, Upper School Principal at Westminster Academy. AS CDC Guidelines changed throughout the year, “We had to adapt to teaching students on campus and online simultaneously,” explained Christy Chipman, Upper School Principal at Sheridan Hills […]

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Lisa May: The Pace of Grace

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Each season (winter, spring, summer, fall) has a brief window that we look forward to. It’s appreciated, and then at some point we arrive at a place that we are thankful for the next season to come along. For me it’s summer leading into fall. There is something about those dog days of summer that can seem grueling here in the tropics. But when the first whiff of cool air comes or the humidity drops as you exit your house that first morning of fall, you sense a change of seasons. Oh, how good it is! Whatever your preference, the […]

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Lisa May, Live the Life South Florida, Good News Media Group, June 2021

Dr. Gene L. Green: Seek the Welfare of the City

Dr. Gene L. Green
27 May 2021
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Dr. Gene L. Green, Trinity International University – Florida, Good News Media Group, May 2021

“Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers” (Galatians 6:10).   “Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the emperor as the supreme authority or to governors as those sent out by him to punish those who do what is evil and to praise those who do what is good. For it is God’s will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good” (1 Peter 2:13-15).   Both Paul and Peter encouraged believers of their day to “do good” […]

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Homeless Individuals Are Receiving Their Stimulus Checks Thanks to Hope South Florida

The Good News
19 May 2021
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More than $900,000 of non-filer applications over a six month period were submitted to the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of the homeless through assistance from HOPE South Florida. Of those submitted, homeless clients received stimulus checks valued at over $401,000. Stimulus Check Process The effort was coordinated in conjunction with Customer Assistance, Relationships and Education, Field Assitance (FA) along with Stakeholder Partnerships, Education & Communication (SPEC), Hope South Florida and Floridian Richard Campillo. There are many reason that some did not receive Economic Impact Payments (EIP checks) including due circumstances such as identity theft, change of address and bank […]

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HOPE South Florida, Good News Media Group, May 2021

Dr. Debra A. Schwinn: Cancer Survivor Shares Message of Hope and Service

Dr. Debra A. Schwinn
13 May 2021
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Dr. Debra A. Schwinn, Palm Beach Atlantic University, Good News Media Group, May 2021

Nursing professor Dr. Kathy McKinnon serves students and patients as an ambassador of hope. She communicates not with empty platitudes, but with the voice of experience, as one who truly has known hopelessness. Students at Palm Beach Atlantic University listened in rapt attention recently as Kathy shared her story in a special chapel service brought by the university’s Student Wellness Committee. They came for the topic “Hope in the Midst of Uncertainty,” their own uncertainties ranging from exam grades to relatives facing cancer. “I wanted to give you a little insight into my story with cancer,” Kathy told them, “so […]

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Trinity International University Adopts HyFlex Education Model

The Good News
11 May 2021
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Higher education is evolving. Trinity International University – Florida continues to advance, making sure that it serves its students, faculty, partners, and community well. For that reason, this past January the university adopted a HyFlex model of education. This provides students with the option of taking courses face-to-face at either its North Lauderdale or Kendall sites, or via Zoom from wherever they are in the world.  The effects of Hyflex Jessica Waddell, a student in the MA in Leadership program, considers that the main benefits of this new model are the comfort and flexibility it provides to both students and professors, […]

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Trinity International University – Florida, Good News Media Group, May 2021

Tommy Boland: Living Letters

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Tommy Boland, Cross Community Church, Good News Media Group, May 2021

“You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts” (2 Corinthians 3:2-3).   There were many false teachers in Corinth who, in trying to defend their position of authority in the church, produced forged letters of recommendation. Paul had a very simple and supernatural response – the letters that defend my position of authority in the church are […]

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Americans Unite to Pray on May 6

The Good News
5 May 2021
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Americans from all walks of life will gather on May 6th to lift up our country in prayer on the National Day of Prayer. Our nation has endured a year marked by unprecedented challenges, but we know prayer has carried us through these days and the hand of God will move us into a brighter future. History of the Day to Pray This year marks 70 years since Reverend Billy Graham stood on the capitol steps in February 1952 and called for congress and the president to establish a day of prayer. By April of that year, President Truman signed […]

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Edwin Copeland: Pastoring Our City

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Edwin Copeland, Church United, Good News Media Group, May 2021

While it’s undeniable that the pandemic is having adverse effects on the social, emotional and spiritual health across every sector of the marketplace, our community’s educators have been disproportionately affected. Not only have teachers, principals, administration and support staff had to care for themselves, deploy new technology and pivot to new methods of classroom facilitation, but they have also had to ensure their own safety and that of their students in the midst of regularly changing guidance and CDC mandates. Fast forward 14 months to today and things have yet to return to any real sense of normality for those […]

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Christopher Schunk: Calvary Christian Academy Grad Develops Faith-based Film “Death of an Artist”

Christopher Schunk
9 Apr 2021
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When we think of faith-based filmmaking, we often think about the content of a film and rarely stop to question the process behind making one. My name is Christopher Schunk, I am a graduate of Calvary Christian Academy’s (CCA) class of 2017, and I am in my final semester of film school at Biola University, a small Christian university in Southern California. God called me to pursue filmmaking around the beginning of my high school career at CCA. I accidentally took a film class due to the cancellation of another class, and I can only say this was the hand […]

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Christopher Schunk, Calvary Christian Academy, Good News Media Group, April 2026