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Faith Archive

Jul 1, 2024

Rocky Bayou Christian a journey in faith and education

Dr. Mike Mosley is a product of the class of 1977 at Fort Walton Beach High School. But he has spent his career at Rocky Bayou Christian School.

Starting as the school’s upper-level math teacher in 1980, Mosley served as the school’s baseball coach, taught throughout the school and is now the superintendent. And he still teaches math.

Jun 25, 2024

Live Oak Baptist hosts Vacation Bible School

Vacation Bible School has changed a lot through the years. 

The simple Bible lessons, perhaps illustrated on a flannel board, are now delivered by high-tech methods. Simple crafts have become more elaborate. Depending on one’s taste, snacks today might taste better than the old standard of graham crackers or cookies and Kool-Aid so common to those of another generation.

Jun 19, 2024

First Baptist filled with the sound of music

First Baptist Church of Crestview was filled with the sound of music last week as it hosted the Music and Arts Camp.  

Close to 250 kids and more than 100 adult helpers participated in programs as diversified as sewing to playing the violin.

Jun 17, 2024

Southern Baptists narrowly reject formal ban on churches with any women pastors

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in their constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination already has a way of ousting such churches.
Jun 10, 2024
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Wesleyan Child Care Center serves local families

Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way they should go and when they are old, they will not depart from it.”

Training children in the ways of God is just what the Wesleyan Child Care Center does. The childcare, on the campus of First Methodist Church, is located at 599 8th Ave., in Crestview.

Jun 3, 2024

Goodness of God reflected at Prayer Breakfast

As the longtime chaplain of the Florida State University football and baseball teams, Clint Purvis has had a front row seat for many historic moments in Seminole history.

Purvis told the almost 300 people gathered at the inaugural Crestview Prayer Breakfast on Thursday that they were also a part of history.

May 28, 2024
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Camp Cheyenne honors a child’s dying wish

Paul Hughes will tell people his Christian walk hasn’t been easy, but as the Apostle Paul wrote, the grace of Christ is sufficient and made perfect in our times of weakness. 
May 20, 2024

Faith, meeting the needs of Wonder Kids

Tenna McKinney is a paraprofessional at Richbourg School and a faithful member of High Praise Church. And while she works with special needs children every day, it took High Praise pastor Chelsea Gay to birth the idea of a setting for special needs children.
May 14, 2024

Jesse Jernigan settling in as Milligan Assembly senior pastor

It has been almost nine months since Jesse Jernigan was installed as the senior pastor of Milligan Assembly of God on Sept. 23, 2023, replacing Mike White. And as quickly as a school year passes, Jernigan is preparing for his first summer as the senior pastor. The first several months have gone well for him.
Apr 30, 2024

Helping carry the burdens of others

More than 40 years ago, Contemporary Christian Music song writer and recording artist, Gary S. Paxton, penned a song, “Only Christians Kill Their Wounded.”
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