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by Audrey Folkenberg, Phil Bond Eighty-six Chinese Bible workers sponsored by Florida Conference members, Sabbath School classes, and churches have baptized 1,056 people and are currently conducting 1,271 Bible studies. One couple left their home earlier this year to...

Rudy Alvir Named Associate Youth Director for South Area Rodolfo (Rudy) Alvir-Abraham was voted Associate Youth Director for South Florida on June 11, 2013, by the Florida Conference Executive Committee and began his new position October 1, 2013. He joined Pedro...

by Sandra Doran More than a dozen teachers chose to spend one week of their summer vacation at Walker Memorial Academy in Avon Park learning new ways to use technology, according to Frank Runnels, Florida Conference Vice President for Education, who made the...

by Olivia Smith A little more than a year ago if you asked me how I felt about my life, I would have told you I was perfectly fine. I felt that God and I had a pretty stable relationship, although I probably could have highlighted some strong areas for improvement....

by Cheryl Rilea, Herb Pritchard The Apostle Paul encourages us to "...be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;" ---Ephesians 5:18-19 Ocala Church's newly elected...

by Karleen Edwards Purposeful In-Reach, Urgent Out-Reach is Lehigh Acres Church's focus for 2014. With more than 400 members, the congregation has embraced the task of connecting with their community in practical ways that meet the needs of individuals and families....

by Kae Borrero Alger and Josephine Oster, warmly known as Al and Jo, celebrated their 65th anniversary with a Caribbean cruise. Both were born in Colorado and attended Campion Academy where they met. One year after graduating, they were married in Sterling, Colo., on...

by Abel Paulín Adriana and Jorge Guarisma, and their three children, responded to a friend’s invitation to visit Davie Spanish Company one Sabbath morning. Afterward, feeling well-received and comfortable, the Guarisma family decided to return. Pastor Demetrio...

by Audrey Folkenberg When MaeLi and Shouling started their missionary work in their assigned unreached area, they first went door to door and visited every family. In the process, they found that many young girls, age 13-14, had been left alone at home as parents went...

by Angela Baerg During his senior year at Forest Lake Academy (FLA), Ryan Becker lost his father to a heart attack and discovered that his mother had Stage 4 lung cancer. “Suddenly, I realized there was a very real possibility I could be attending my graduation as an...

by Kristy Williams Don, an education major from Oklahoma, and Ardyce, a nursing student from Colorado, met while working in the bakery at Union College, Lincoln, Nebr. They married on July 28, 1954. Upon graduation from college in 1956, Platte Valley Academy in...