Casting Crowns, Tauren Wells, for KING & COUNTRY, and Passion will join evangelist Scott Dawson on stage for UNITE: Gulf Coast beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 21-22, at the Pensacola Bay Center. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
To reserve free tickets or reserve tickets and donate to the UNITE Movement, go to unitesdea.org.
A recent survey by the American Bible Society concluded that Christians who are actively engaged in studying their faith’s scriptures “flourish in every domain of human experience.”
Carl Gallups’ energy is infectious and seemingly unending; it has helped him build a diverse ministry over almost 50 years as pastor at Hickory Hammock Baptist Church in East Milton.
Gallups has written 13 books about the Bible, ghost-written several others, and contributed to numerous compilations and publications.
About 30 years ago, several Milton-area churches began worshiping together monthly.
Today, the Fellowship of Churches Santa Rosa County guides a variety of activities designed to inform, empower and serve people.
Jim Waters went on his first mission trip in 1985. He was a sophomore at Milton High School, and he traveled with a group from First Baptist Church to serve the people of New Orleans.
This week, he’s leading about two dozen teens from Friendship Baptist Church on a mission to the city; he’s led more than 20 missions to “the Big Easy” over the years.
The United Methodist Church is navigating a historic schism, a division into two groups caused by a disagreement about ideas.
On May 7, the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the UMC approved final “disaffiliation” of 193 congregations, bringing the number of defections to 240 since 2021.
The Gospel Projects Youth Athletic Club has been doing things differently since 1958.
“This program is about the Lord Jesus Christ,” said Todd Brainard, pastor at Milton’s Grace Bible Church. “That has been our focus from Day 1. We’re not perfect, but we do our best to create a good environment for our kids and their parents to experience God’s love and Christian fellowship.”
The Rev. Deacon John Kendall of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Milton has been in and out of prisons for years now; twice a week these days.
Kendall, an ordained vocational deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast, leads worship services at the Blackwater River Correctional Facility in East Milton and the G.K. Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama.
The people who developed the Coming Clean addiction recovery program at West Florida Baptist Church aren’t trained substance abuse counselors, but they are qualified.
