Faith Archive

First Baptist Church of Crestview’s sixth annual walk-through event called “Experience Christmas” will include a dazzling display of over 100 decorated Christmas trees in the church’s historic stained-glass chapel.

Chevon Corlew-Coleman, a Crestview gospel singer, songwriter and musician who has sung the national anthem at several major local events, opened for gospel artists such as Larnell Harris, Donnie McClurkin, and Marvin Sapp, and written for Grammy Award-winning gospel singer CeCe Winans, will highlight the upcoming FOR THAT Benefit Concert.

A full congregation of members and guests showed up to sing and worship God’s praises and listen to His word at the recent Pine Terrace Baptist Church Revival in Milton.

After earning his associate’s degree, he worked as a pastor at First Baptist Church Chattahoochee before coming to Baker to become the youth pastor at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in 2012.

Jeff Spooneybarger, a Northwest Florida native, has spent his entire life at the front of the church.

Growing up, he would sit in the front row and attend every Wednesday and Sunday.

Benjamin Donnell and his wife, Alley, are both entrepreneurs. The pair, who have been married for almost nine years, talked daily about what kind of business they wanted to open.

“We would think about what it would look like to open a café with maybe sandwiches and coffee,” Benjamin Donnell said. “We were always talking about something, and the Lord opened the door for us to do something with ice cream and that is the direction we decided to go into. We knew this is what we needed right now.”

Dallas Davidson, Hub City Church children’s ministry leader, grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. While she attended church with her family when she was younger, she did not understand the church’s purpose until she was 12 years old.

She went with some friends to a youth group, and it had a profound impact on her.

Joy Fellowship Church in Crestview is hosting two community events on July 9, July 16 and July 23.

The event, starting at 5:30 each night, will have a pot-luck style dinner followed by worship and words from Cameron Pierce.

Healing Hoof Steps CEO Narissa Jenkins grew up in Fort Walton Beach with a military family.

Her father was a combat search veteran who served in weather reconnaissance operations during the Vietnam War and met Jenkins’ mom in Thailand.

For its entire existence, Joy Fellowship Church in Crestview has had elder Fred Jordan show them the way.

Jordan started the church with five other families in 1975.