Can Multisite be Missional?

Multisite churches must have carefully sorted priorities. Over the past 15 years, the concept of multisite churches has moved from a rare yet novel blip on most pastor’s ecclesiological radar to the dominant trend most growing churches consider in efforts to sustain continued momentum. Without delving into the ecclesiological issues that some assert as intrinsically problematic with the multisite model (because most common issues can be addressed through careful and creative... Read More

Pastrami pop-up: Katz’s Delicatessen of New York coming to Boca for charity event

If you go crazy for New York’s famed Katz’s Delicatessen the way Meg Ryan did in “When Harry Met Sally,” have we got a one-night stand for you. Katz’s will bring a pop-up version of its Lower East Side restaurant — complete with hand-sliced pastrami and corned beef on rye — to Boca Raton on April 18 for a special charity event. The dinner, dubbed Katz’s Delicatessen Comes to Boca, will take place 7-10 p.m. at Excell Auto Group, 1001 Clint Moore Road. Tickets are available... Read More

Entire church stolen when trailer is towed away, pastor says

Members of the Square Root Church in Cooper City are praying for help to find a trailer that was stolen with the entire contents of their church. On Facebook, Pastor Daniel Rios Jr. posted surveillance video of the theft, which happened about 9:40 p.m. Friday in a parking lot at 12323 S.W. 55th St. The video shows someone driving up in a light-colored, 4-door pickup truck, then walking around the trailer, cutting off the locks, and hooking the trailer to the pickup before driving away. Rios... Read More

Entire church stolen when trailer towed away, pastor says

Members of the Square Root Church in Cooper City are praying for help to find a trailer that was stolen with the entire contents of their church. On Facebook, Pastor Daniel Rios Jr. posted surveillance video of the theft that happened about 9:40 p.m. Friday in a parking lot at 12323 S.W. 55th St. The video shows someone driving up in a light-colored, 4-door pickup truck, then walking around the trailer, cutting off the locks, and hooking the trailer to the pickup before driving away. Rios... Read More

Second arrest made in failed armed robbery of four Spring Breakers who fought back, cops say

A second arrest has been made in the failed armed robbery of four men who were celebrating a birthday during Spring Break. Travis Jones, 31, was arrested March 26, just two days after he and Kevin Lavon Campbell, 33, confronted two pairs of brothers who were getting gas in Oakland Park, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. Aric Wisbey, 21, and Alex Wisbey, 23, and Jacob Tanoos, 27, and Alec Tanoos, 21, were returning from a night in Miami Beach. They had stopped at the Mobil gas station at... Read More

Girl, 17, and her grandmother killed when another car veered out of control, cops say

Two people were killed and four others injured in a violent weekend crash in Deerfield Beach when a car veered across a road into oncoming traffic. The Broward Sheriff’s Office Tuesday identified those involved in the four-vehicle collision that happened shortly before 6:30 p.m. Saturday on the 4300 block of West Hillsboro Boulevard. Driver Breanha Free-Baker, 17, of Coral Springs, and her grandmother Robyn Underwood, 61, of Plantation, died in the crash. The teen’s mother, Michele... Read More

Woman, teen granddaughter killed, three hospitalized in four-vehicle collision

Two people were killed and four others injured in a violent weekend crash in Deerfield Beach when a car veered across a road into oncoming traffic. The Broward Sheriff’s Office Tuesday identified those involved in the four-vehicle collision that happened shortly before 6:30 p.m. Saturday on the 4300 block of West Hillsboro Boulevard. Driver Breanha Free-Baker, 17, of Coral Springs, and her grandmother Robyn Underwood, 61, of Plantation, died in the crash. The teen’s mother, Michele... Read More

Second body recovered this week from Lauderdale Lakes waterways

For the second time this week, divers have pulled a body from a waterway in Lauderdale Lakes. On Tuesday morning, the Broward Sheriff’s dive team, homicide detectives and crime-scene technicians were at 2690 NW 35th Terrace, where human remains were recovered, spokeswoman Joy Oglesby said. The neighborhood is south of West Oakland Park Boulevard, between State Road 7 and Northwest 31st Avenue. After a car crashed into a canal Saturday in Lauderdale Lakes, Broward Sheriff’s divers... Read More

God Saved Me From Suicide

I wanted nothing to do with faith. That changed the night I tried to take my own life. I grew up with idealistic missionary parents who wanted more than punch-a-clock and pay-the-mortgage normalcy. They pursued a ministry life abroad, but after I was diagnosed with leukemia as a child, we were left stateside and struggling financially. We moved a lot—Hawaii, then Nepal, then back to Hawaii, then New Mexico. For most of my teen years, we lived in Albuquerque, and during that time, I... Read More