Anita Thorstad, a deacon at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church in Boca Raton, has led
the church’s joint efforts with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Delray Beach to open
and operate a K-6 school in Bondeau, Haiti, which now serves 275 students.
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Church members paint the exterior of the Journey Church in Boynton Beach.
They are scheduled to be in the building in time for Easter.
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A crew member from FLS Painting scrapes,
paints and waterproofs the steeple
of Ca
The Rev. Mark Leondis stands at the pulpit below some of the iconography that adorns the ceilings
at St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church in Boca Raton.
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St. Vincent Ferrer is preparing for its annual Parish Festival, set f
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (left) and the Rev. Andrew Sherman
participate in a baptism ceremony with Mazie Baker, 1, who was
accompanied by her parents, Jonny and Sember Baker.
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INSET BELOW: The Rev. Pam Cahoon
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Father David Toups (left) leads seminarians Joe Plesko, Jonathan Emery, Felipe Gonzalez and Elixavier Castro in a 12-mile Central Florida obstacle course called the Tough Mudder.
Toups currently serves as seminary rector and president at St. Vincent
Scott Dingle (back row, from left), Pastor Andy Hagen, Susan Hagen and Debbie Dingle were among
the Advent Lutheran Church team who visited Good Shepherd Church and School in a Mumbai slum.
It was part of a mission against sexual slavery.
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Bishop Gerald Barbarito sprinkles holy water on one of the four new classrooms
at St. Vincent Ferrer School in Delray Beach. Father Tom Skindeleski (left) accompanies him on the tour.
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BELOW: Volunteers pack rice and bea
The Rev. Canon William Stokes of St. Paul ’s Episcopal Church is surrounded by his family, including, from left, daughter Erin Potter, wife, Susan, and son Richard, as The Very Reverend Kathleen P. Gannon, curate, prays over them as Stokes begins his
Journey Church is raising the roof on the former Grace Community Church. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
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The arrival of the Journey Church in East Boynton is raising the roof.
The original $2 million project announced last year to
CROS Ministries members Carolina Martinez, 27, (left) of West Palm Beach and Tracy Tenore, 28, (right)
of Boynton Beach paint the house of Delray Beach resident Willie Lee Thomas, 89, with the help
of SonCoast Church member Dot Bast (center) of Delra
Retired Navy Stanley Gavlick, front, of Delray Beach,
and others salute the flag during The Immortal Four
Chaplains Memorial Service put on by The Boynton
Veterans’ Council at the Ascension Lutheran Church
in Boynton Beach on Feb. 3. Tim Stepien/
Mary and Joseph, played by Alice Robinson and Hunter Gregg, were surrounded by wise men, angels and shepherds during dress rehearsals for a telling of the Christmas story at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic School in Delray Beach. Jerry Lower/The Coastal
