The Miami Lakes Optimist Club will be holding its summer basketball registration for boys and girls on consecutive Saturdays, April 12, 19 and 26, from 9:30 to noon at Miami Lakes Middle School. Registration cost is $145 for each player from ages 11-18. The season starts Monday, June 9. Games will be played at Barbara Goleman High School and Hialeah Gardens Senior High School. Parents must bring their kids to the registration along...

  Dixieland music greeted worshippers on Mach 2 as Miami Lakes Congregational Church celebrated Mardi Gras, “the last hurrah” before Lent. Congregants wore masks and beads in Mardi Gras colors of gold, purple and green. Newly installed interim senior pastor, Rev. Richard Sparrow, said, “The Spirit blew through our midst and brought us to life.” Sparrow delighted the congregation when he stepped into the sanctuary...

  New Testament Baptist Church is bringing the community a new weekly program called Equipping U. The new Wednesday night series is designed to offer free tools and resources needed to succeed in a fast pace and ever changing culture. This will be a learning environment where participants can grow into an authentic relationship with Jesus.  Classes began April 2 and will be held on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at New Testament Baptist...

  Ten Florida churches participated in the T&T (Truth and Training) AwanaGames that were held on March 8 at Grace Baptist Church in Pompano Beach. New Testament Baptist Church’s younger team, which includes 5, 1st and 2nd graders, won 3rd place in the Sparks-a-Rama. They competed in the Sparky Crawl, Sparky Bowl, Bean Bag In and Out, Rabbit Hunt, Sparky Train and Balloon Pop. New Testament took first place in the boys and...

  Miami Lakes Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, welcomed and installed interim senior pastor Rev. Richard Sparrow in late January, following the retirement of longtime, beloved senior pastor Dr. Jeffrey E. Frantz. Sparrow has extensive experience at both the local and national United Church of Christ levels in Massachusetts, New York, Illinois and Ohio. He concluded a 15 month interim at Sarasota, Florida in December. A...