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.

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.

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.

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.

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.