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.

“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.”

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.

The first bridge to span Pensacola Bay between Pensacola and Gulf Breeze was opened June 13, 1931.

An account of it appeared in the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway’s company magazine “The Frisco Employees’ Magazine,” dated July 1931.