With temperatures dipping into the lower 50s, Tom Turman is preparing the cold weather shelter at Ferris Hill Baptist Church.

“I monitor a couple of sites – weather.com and weather.gov – to keep track of conditions. If the forecast is below 40, or even if it’s below 50 or so but windy and rainy, we’ll open the shelter,” Turman told the Press Gazette earlier this month. “We’re usually open 35-40 nights in a normal year.”

The Rev. David Lewis, pastor at Woodbine Baptist Church in Pace, and his wife Susie were with a tour group in eastern Israel when Hamas militants began firing rockets into the central and southern parts of the country.

“Our first inkling that something was going wrong was when we were about to stop for lunch in Jericho, which is under Muslim control,” Lewis told the Press Gazette last week. “Our guide leaned forward to the driver and told him to keep going straight.”

The Bible commands believers to pray without ceasing, and that’s exactly what First Baptist Church of Navarre (FBCN) did October 11 in their sanctuary.

Vatican City – Pope Francis on Wednesday is opening a global gathering of bishops and laypeople to discuss the future of the Catholic Church, including some hot-button issues that have previously been considered off-limits for discussion.

The Catholic Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee will host the annual Florida Culture of Life Conference – “A Eucharistic Way of Reconciling Love” – Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13-14, at St. Sylvester Catholic Church in Navarre.

Stephen Williams, the new music director at New Life Baptist Church in Milton, comes from an accomplished musical family, but he said leading worship music “isn’t a ‘gig,’ it’s a ministry.”

“Sometimes the right thing to do is nothing at all,” the Rev. William Wright, pastor at Bible Way Baptist Church and, for about 18 months, the director for Share Your Heart’s Northwest Florida Circuit. “Sometimes people just need somebody to talk to; to vent.” According to its website, the Share Your Heart program “recruits, trains […]

St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church will host its second annual Oktoberfest celebration between 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30. It is inviting area residents to join church members for the more than 210-year-old Bavarian tradition featuring uniquely German food, beverages and music.

According to Pastor Jason Allen of Woodlawn Baptist Church in Crestview – well, according to his wife, Heather, a Christian counselor working toward a doctoral degree – what is the need that people with disabilities most want to have met?

About half of the world’s $200 billion video-gaming market is in the United States, with that share expected to grow 10 percent annually through 2030, according to industry experts. Some game publishers are turning their focus to Bible-based games to offer Christian families an option. But two Santa Rosa County youth ministers warn parents to be vigilant.