Churches unite to help others this Easter season
Easter week in Milton will be full of community outreach from One Love. One Love is a program that has been doing outreach for about 10 years. This year, 16 churches are partnering together to offer hope to Santa Rosa County.
Local churches work together to help families
Santa Rosa and Escambia County churches are partnering together to help families in need. Care Portal is a nationwide program that seeks to help children and families through meeting their needs.
My Father’s Arrows seeks funds for land purchase
About 20 miles north of town there is an idyllic home where race, age, gender, and ability know no boundaries. My Father’s Arrows is a distinctly Christian children’s home for hurting children who have been abandoned by everyone else. It takes only 30 seconds on the inside to feel the love, warmth, and acceptance that the children there radiate.
Santa Rosa County local and Christian bass player Jay Weaver passes into ‘glory’
“Anybody’s who’s come in contact with him knows how real his faith in Jesus was. I believe even though COVID may have taken his last breath, Jesus was right there to catch him. I know that he’s seeing things now that I long to see. My heart’s broke.”
Nontraditional church lives out Truth in East Milton
Every Sunday morning at 10 a.m., Living Truth Church meets at the East Milton ballpark, where they hold their service in the community gymnasium.
“We’re really nontraditional, no suit no tie,” Paster Jared Owens said. “I’ve been known to wear sneakers a time or two.”
They launched their church in March 2020, right at the beginning of COVID-19. Living Truth Church East Milton held online services for about two months and were able to finally meet in person in June.
Willing to be uncomfortable
“How uncomfortable are you willing to become to welcome someone else into your community?” That question was put to me years ago by a wise and wizened preacher, forcing me to think about the boundari…
KEEPING THE FAITH: Truth is truth
As I was coming up in the hard-baked fundamentalism of Appalachia, my religious instructors began to feverishly warn me of the dangers I would face in the world. It consisted of the obligatory advise…
COMING FROM GOD: Local author releases second book of poetry
Glenda B. Frazier has been writing her entire life. As a young girl, one of nine children, she would write in…
First Church Milton offers ’Reset’ series of sermons
MILTON — What does a reset look like for you? Do you feel like you lack significance or fulfillment? Is there a part of you that asks, "Is this all there is in life?"
Just as you sometimes have to…
Baptist Health Care Foundation receives $100,000 grant
The Baptist Health Care Foundation received a $100,000 grant from the Cigna Foundation through its World of…













