“Your child has cancer.”

That’s a world stopping, life changing phrase no one ever wants to hear.

In First Corinthians 13, the Apostle Paul wrote of faith, hope and love and concluded by saying all three remained, but the greatest of the three is love.

A new chapter is being written in the youth ministry of Woodlawn Baptist Church.

In what we know as Ephesians 6:12, the Apostle Paul wrote, as found in the Good News Bible, “For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age.”

Looks can be deceiving. 

The old storefront at 412 W James Lee Blvd looks like many other old storefronts in any town in Florida or the United States.

In Matthew 17:20 Jesus told the Disciples, “If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain to move to another place, and it will be moved. And nothing shall be impossible to you.”

Pastor Curt Rainey of First Baptist Church of Holt is quick to credit the members of the church for how God is working.

In Matthew 25:35, Jesus told the Disciples, “I was hungry, and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me something.”

Later in the passage, the Disciples asked Jesus when they saw Him hungry or thirsty. Christ’s answer is found in Matt 25:40 when he said, “I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!”

Project Hope, an addiction recovery ministry, has been in Okaloosa County since 2016 and in the Crestview community for about three years.

Project Hope was founded in Houston in 2012. The location now in Crestview was the second. A third location is in Arkansas with plans underway to open a location in the Birmingham, Alabama, area.

On the first Wednesday of each month, members of local churches meet at Hideaway Pizza to meet and share how God is working within the community. They pray for the community and plan future Prayer Walks or Prayer in the Parking Lot ministries that allow people to be prayed for from the comfort of their car.