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by Shereen Scheuneman Elda Mae Reichard, is a special 100-year-old member of Prayers & Squares Ministry at Forest Lake Church, Apopka. Quilting ministry is her hobby, her passion! At home, she carefully hand sews the perimeter bindings of each quilt top before...

by Martin Butler With help from several surrounding churches and businesses, Lighthouse Mission Group members of Altamonte Springs spent Sabbath morning, August 22, uplifting Christ to the 300 families who live in the Remington Inn and Suites community. The mission...

by Betty Kossick On September 12, 1965, when Apopka was a small Florida town of 4,000 residents, Florida Living Retirement Community (FLRC) opened its doors to a community within a community. The two grew together and, 50 years later, with the City of Apopka pushing...

by Robert Broome The Learning Tree Academy, an outreach ministry of Apopka, Fla., Church, offers the community a complete preschool curriculum for children ages two months to five years. On May 30, the school held its annual baccalaureate program. Most of the 30...

by Lynell LaMountain Ron Halvorsen was born January 18, 1938, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended William E. Grady vocational high school which had a delinquency rate so high that a book, The Blackboard Jungle, was written about it and later made into a movie. One day...

by Jeffrey Thompson A near-capacity crowd gathered at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Church on July 25 to witness a powerful play, "At the End of Time." This play, based on Matthew 24:9-14, dramatizes the effect of faith, love, and commitment to Jesus. The story line features...

by Dan Forbes In a time when first responders are often maligned, South Orlando Church chooses to recognize these individuals. Each year, the church sets aside a Sabbath to honor the police, firefighter, and emergency medical service (EMS) personnel in the community....

by Angela Baerg Jeffrey Brownlow, a member of Spring Meadows Church in Sanford, felt convicted to go overseas as a student missionary during his junior year at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee. One night, he prayed before going to bed and asked...

by Rudy Alvir and Broward County Park Staff "Thank you again; your group is amazing," wrote Peter White, a grounds-keeper from the Broward County Park System. With his letter, he also enclosed a web site where an official thank you was posted for those who...

by Audrey Folkenberg Her husband had betrayed her many times. Her son, overwhelmed by ongoing conflict, chose to leave home. Despondent, she moved to a new city in order to start a new life; a life where her path intersected with ours, and we began studying the Bible...

by Mike Cauley, D.Min. Florida Conference President I have always loved public evangelism: the energy in preparing for the opening night, getting to know those whom the Lord has brought through advertising and member invitations, building a prayer list of those who...