Faith and better future at Grace Place

Arlene Channell
27 Oct 2009
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They go even further than simply teaching the three R’s: Readin’, ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic. At Grace Place in Golden Gate City, Fla., volunteers strive to teach at-risk and impoverished children and families the three basic L’s: Literacy, language and life skills.  “Golden Gate City had been identified as the biggest pocket of need outside of Immokalee,” in Southwest Florida, explains Stephanie Munz Campbell, the director of Grace Place. “It’s a very under-served area.” After 20 years in Christian education, Stephanie felt God’s pull to reach out to this area of great need. Five years ago, when the struggling Golden Gate […]

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Pray America to be One Nation Under God

Arlene Channell
23 Oct 2009
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Do you know which televangelist said, “It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible?” OK, it was a trick question. America’s first president, George Washington, said that, not a televangelist. In Naples, Fla., a God-fearing, patriotic group has sprung up, with the hope of reinstating the truth that America was founded as a Christian nation, and needs to continue to be one to survive. They call themselves, “One Nation Under God,” or ONUG. Alarmed and dismayed at many of the changes he has seen taking place in the United States, ONUG Founder Bob Brown felt […]

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‘Miracle on the Hudson’

Arlene Channell
13 Oct 2009
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Some sentences you just never forget. They get etched into the hard surfaces of your brain like a stony epitaph. For Lisa Hood, those words likely are: “Mark’s OK. He’s in the Hudson.” Dubbed the “Miracle on the Hudson,” the nation was amazed when on Jan. 16, 2009, U.S. Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing in the Hudson River, after taking off from LaGuardia airport just moments before. No one was seriously injured. No one acted wrecklessly; the dark side of human nature was strangely absent. Mark Hood, a businessman on board that flight, came to  Naples, Fla., last […]

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