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Churches Pitch in to Fund Computers for Elementary School

The Good News
3 Mar 2017
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Churches Fund Elementary School

Six churches in the I-595 corridor area of Broward County joined forces to meet the tangible need of students at Flamingo Road Elementary School in November, raising enough funds to purchase laptop computers for the third grade class. Pastors from Crossway Church, Greenhouse Church, Metropolitan Baptist, Hope Fellowship, Pioneer Community and Vertical Church (aka Iglesia Vertical) have been getting together to pray month for the last 2-3 years, according to Virgil Sierra, lead pastor of Vertical Church. “There is a group of us that have a great camaraderie, so we got together and asked, ‘What would it look like if […]

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“Facing Darkness” Shines Light on a Dark Disease

Finley Walker
1 Mar 2017
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“Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand” (Isaiah 41:10, NLT). What do you do when faced with a crisis the world has never seen before? What do you do when your only heroes on the frontline have started to fall? What do you do when the darkness creeps in, fear overwhelms and your faith is pressed from all directions? These were questions that Samaritan’s Purse was faced with during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in […]

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Who Will Rescue Us?

Daniel Ebert
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Refugees often experience fear, confusion and shame. Their plight is a picture of the broken human condition. We all live in a time of danger — none are immune. The life and death questions we face desperately need answers. Our brokenness, and the brokenness of our nation, can rob us of our dignity. We, too, can feel shame, like the world’s refugees. Who will rescue us? The question is risky. The wrong answer, in a time of fear, can lead to violence and tyranny, especially if trust we in human saviors. The right answer can finally bring us safely home. […]

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Maria Found Life

Tewannah Aman
22 Feb 2017
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Maria Found Life Tewannah Aman Good News It was late on a Sunday night last September. We were wrapping up our 40 Days for Life kick-off rally at the Spanish church next door to Fort Lauderdale Women’s Center, a late-term abortion facility. We were preparing to leave. That’s when a young woman named “Maria” who looked in distress, arrived at the church. She had seen online that the abortion facility was open 24 hours a day. She said she was seeking information for a “friend” considering abortion. Tom Walker, the 40 Days campaign director, explained the dangers associated with abortion […]

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Hope Women’s Centers Celebrates 30 Years of Service

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Hope Women’s Centers Celebrates 30 Years of Service January 17, 2017 marked 30 years since Hope Women’s Centers opened its doors and hearts to women and men facing unplanned pregnancies. Hope offers free and confidential services including pregnancy tests, limited obstetrical ultrasounds, options counseling, and referrals for women and men who find themselves in unplanned pregnancies. Hope has been a trusted source for pregnancy counseling throughout the past three decades because they do not financially benefit based on the decisions of their patients. “We are a trusted and safe place — for men and women — where they can process […]

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No Vacancy

Elizabeth Mitchell
20 Feb 2017
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“And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no place for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7). “No room in the inn” would become a signature piece for how the Son of Man would be regularly excluded from the world he came to save. Repeatedly throughout the Gospels, a “No Vacancy” sign was extended to Christ as he journeyed toward the cross. In the synagogue of his hometown of Nazareth, he stood and read Isaiah from the scrolls and then informed the audience of their […]

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BiG Cardio is Back Celebrating 10 Years of Doing Good

The Good News
15 Feb 2017
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BiG Cardio returns on Saturday, May 6 celebrating its 10th anniversary and organizers say it will be better than ever. Produced by BiG Children’s Foundation (BCF), a non-profit organization that provides opportunity and support for at-risk youth, the annual BiG Cardio is a unique blend of all things fitness, sports, cycle and fun. With 10 fitness activities and sports to choose from, and dozens of other attractions, it’s become one of South Florida’s favorite events. Setting it apart from other events BiG Cardio is designed to make fitness a fun activity for everyone at every age. “Perfect for the entire […]

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Porn Kills Love: Fight the New Drug Events Planned

Shelly Pond
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Live the Life, an organization dedicated to changing young lives and strengthening marriages, will host a Community Conversation for adults only entitled “Fight the New Drug” on March 30 at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. Students are invited to their own presentation on March 31st at First Baptist Church Fort Lauderdale to discuss how “porn kills love” and to encourage students to “fight for love.” Lisa May, vice president of Live the Life in South Florida, said students on average are now being exposed to pornography around the ages of 7 to 9-years-old, and studies have shown pornography can be highly […]

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The Faith Center Hosts International Believers Conference

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The 2017 International Believers’ Conference is coming to The Faith Center in Sunrise on February 23 and 24. Joining Bishop Henry Fernandez, of The Faith Center, for this two-day conference will be special guest Pastor Steven Furtick from Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC, as well as minister Dave Martin and psalmists Hezekiah Walker, William Murphy, Mary Mary’s Erica Campbell and Micah Stampley. The event is designed to take your faith to a higher dimension, help you get a fresh perspective on what God is saying to the Church, and prepare you to walk in his blessing like never before. Fernandez, […]

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What’s In Your Heart?

John Hawkins, Sr
14 Feb 2017
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February, Valentine’s Day and love – these thoughts are associated together at this time of year. We assign a wide array of meanings to this word, love. Love carries us to the heights of ecstasy and to the deepest valley of despair. The Bible tells Christians our number one duty is to love God with all our heart as well as loving others as ourselves. Love is to be the purest of motivations (1 Corinthians 13). How can we develop a heart that loves more?   The source of love All human love no matter how sincere is tainted by […]

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