by Jim Campbell, First Baptist Church of Melbourne, Florida I think we’ve all done something that we would deem “stupid”. At some point, we may have shaken our head, took a deep breath and thought, “I know better than that”…and we probably did. We’ve watched a leader or a celebrity or a professional athlete make a mistake that severely tarnishes their image or destroys their career, and thought “they should have known better.” They had

  Pastor Lorenzo Laws and the members of Greater Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church proudly invites the community to join us at its 1st Annual Crane Creek Founders Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 28, 2016 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. The festival will be held on the north end of Lipscomb Street and Prospect Avenue in South Melbourne. The one-day festival will showcase dance, arts and crafts, music of all types, informational booths, and vendors displaying their

Spotlight Magazine: May 2016

Here are the statistics: the State of Florida reported heroin killed more people in 2014 than any year on record.  For a more local statistic the number of heroin related overdoses increased in almost every Central Florida county during 2013 and 2014. Orange and Osceola counties (which are very close to Brevard county) were hit the hardest with an 84 percent increase. A reason for heroin’s popularity is cost. Due to Florida’s recent crackdown on

Graduation is an exciting time in the lives of students. After years in the classroom preparing for life after school, graduation marks a time when students are finally ready to enter the “real world” and land their first professional job. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics advises that earning a college degree can greatly improve a person’s chance of landing a job. The more education a person receives, the lower his or her prospects of