Category: faith

This past week, Okaloosa County said a final farewell to Deputy Bill Myers. As Crestview Police Department senior chaplain, I attended Myers' funeral with law enforcement officers from all over the s…

CRESTVIEW — Local kids, families, churches and groups will celebrate the upcoming collection season for Operation Christmas Child, the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind, which has a goal …

CRESTVIEW — A women's conference for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be broadcast via satellite for viewing at Fort Walton Beach Stake churches.
The one in Crestview is at 7 a.m. S…

CRESTVIEW — Emmanuel Baptist Church's new programs ensure hearing impaired and deaf members won't be lost in the flock.
Joe and Daphne Cox, along with their daughter, Charity, are helping the East …

Genesis 2:5 states that in the beginning it did not rain, but a mist would rise every day to water the garden.

We have no mention, that I can recall, of rain before the events of the biblical floo…

CRESTVIEW — Women of Valor, a group of women dedicated to mentoring females of all ages, will have a conference at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 19 at the Crestview Community Center.
Sherrell Compton, Women of V…

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WOMEN'S BIBLE STUDY: The Eglin Chapel Protestant Tuesday Ladies' Bible study begins 9:30-11 a.m. Sept. 15 at the West Gate Chapel An…

CRESTVIEW — A Southern gospel group performing here this weekend has roots that started in 1921.
The LeFevre Quartet will perform at 6 p.m. Sept. 12 at Central Baptist Church, 951 S. Ferdon Blvd., …

While I was writing this column, there was a storm brewing south of us.
It dissipated and did not affect Northwest Florida, but please pray for the Island of Dominica, which was devastated.
It go…

LAUREL HILL — Folks in present-day Okaloosa County have been attending area churches since the early 1940s. One of the earliest churches in the entire state was Yellow River Baptist Church, constitut…