Engineering and Information Technology students from Miami Lakes Educational Center and five other Miami-Dade Public high schools participated in the recent second annual Explore Ambition Program, a STEM career-related experience at the National Flight Academy in Pensacola, a subsidiary of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. Students in 9th through 11th grades, with varying math and science skill levels, spent their Spring Break as...

Palm Vista Community Church Easter message: Many of us have experienced the sting of death.  For some it was the death of a loved one and for others the death of a dream or desire. If you are reading these words with sorrow in your heart or even tears in your eyes over that death, I want to say how sorry I am. I grieve with you. And in our grieving, I'd like to offer you the hope of life. It’s the hope of a particular kind of...

The Church of the Epiphany Easter message: When Jesus was with his disciples before his death and resurrection, they knew that, somehow, God was with them. They struggled to understand and came to know him as the Messiah, the Christ.  After his resurrection, they knew that he was still with them and they knew that they had to share his presence with everyone who would listen.  One day, after the resurrection, two of them...

  “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!” (Ancient Christian Hymn for Easter.) The words from the above hymn, which go back to the 4th century, are chanted every Easter in every Orthodox Christian Church in every land throughout the world. For the early Christians, as for the Orthodox today, this hymn exemplifies the meaning of Pascha (Easter). We live today...

Miami Lakes Congregational Church Easter message: John 20: 11-18.  The four Gospels all have parts of the resurrection story, each a bit different but all affirming that the tomb was empty and Jesus was alive. I’ve known and appreciated those passages all my life but there is one part of John’s account that particularly moves me:  Mary, weeping outside the open tomb, looked in and saw two angels sitting where Jesus...