Faithful supporters of Urban Youth Impact joined Founder, Bill Hobbs, and President/CEO, Chris Tress, at The Breakers Palm Beach on November 2nd to celebrate the launching of Urban Youth’s Legacy Foundation. The Foundation will be solely focused on financially supporting Urban Youth Impact and adding designated funds like our kindergarten to college fund, capital improvements, and staff development. In addition, Urban Youth’s Legacy Foundation will help Urban Youth Impact bring a firm financial foundation no matter what the world brings. The evening was filled with commemoration, compelling stories of impact, and heartwarming memories. Bill Hobbs and Urban Youth Impact Bill has grown Urban Youth Impact from a small sports outreach to a widely recognized non-profit that is changing the inner-city community in Palm Beach County. Approaching 25 years of committed service to the urban pockets of West Palm Beach, Urban Youth Impact is seeking long-term partners that are passionate about seeing real transformation in the inner-city. Urban Youth Impact exists to love, equip, and empower inner-city youth to fulfill their God-given purpose. Founded […]

Palm Beach Atlantic University has signed a first-of-its kind agreement with the Republic of Honduras and the Marea Foundation, kicking off a three-month long initiative in Honduras to help improve quality of life for the locals by preserving a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Palm Beach Atlantic University and Honduras For the first time, Palm Beach Atlantic University in partnership with the Marea Foundation, led by former West Palm Beach Mayor Rick Reikenis, are launching a program to benefit the people of Honduras through the restoration of its Copan Ruins, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The goal is to benefit the […]

Trinity International University-Florida entered a team to compete in the Goliath Gauntlet obstacle race, sponsored by Sheridan House Family Ministries on October 30. Sheridan House’s Goliath Gauntlet The Goliath Gauntlet rolled out new obstacles on the 2.75 mile course located on the Sheridan House Davie campus. The 20+ obstacle course race has participants crawling through the mud, trekking through the lake, and pushing their limits. Some of the obstacles to be tackled include the collateral damage, totally tubular, the purge, the goliath, tower of babel, cave of adullam and in the spirit of obstacle racing there are a few surprises. […]

More than 500 prayer walkers representing more than two dozen local area churches, worshipped God and prayed for an end to abortion and the orphan crisis in South Florida to and from the Aastra Women’s Center in Plantation on November 13th. The prayer walk event was a celebration culminating 40 weeks of prayer walks for Love Life South Florida, which launched its regional ministry in the tri-county area this year, in a campaign which mirrored the 40 weeks of a general, pregnancy gestation period. The event highlighted the unique nature of Love Life’s ministry, which is apolitical as a pro-life organization, […]

Abe Ng, CEO of Sushi Maki, announced the opening of a new restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, introducing a first-of-a-kind concept he calls “Polished Fast-Casual Dining.”  The restaurant, which represents the company’s first stand-alone location in Broward County, occupies a 2,500-square-foot, Class A space at 200 East Las Olas Boulevard, which previously was occupied by Beehive Kitchen. Plans call for hiring over 25 full- and part-time team members from the surrounding neighborhood. Ng, a well-known restaurateur and business leader noted for expanding his family’s Canton Chinese Restaurants since the late 1990s to become an award-winning, go-to regional sushi brand, is responding to […]

A new church in Fort Lauderdale named Everlasting Life Church recently held a service honoring those who have served our nation, U.S. Military Veterans.  Everlasting Life is a new church in South Florida and is pastored by a Shawn Bower, former Special Forces Officer who has a heart for veterans, our community and the homeless. They are supporters of the Good News! They have an English service at 11 am every Sunday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post, 350 SW 25th St, Fort Lauderdale, FL  33315.  They are doing outreaches to our homeless and veterans in the Fort Lauderdale area.  […]