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By: Pastor Roel D. Camarillas

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During one of the most sacred weeks for two faiths -- Christians, who are preparing for Easter this Sunday, and Jews who will observe the start of Passover on Friday -- burglars struck the building site of a new church in Miramar.

"The irony is that it happened during Holy Week and our neighbor is the police [sub] station," said Mark Rodriguez, executive pastor of Calvary Fellowship.

The 1200-member congregation worships at Everglades High School in the city and had hoped to celebrate services in May in its new church that is rising at 2951 SW 186th Ave., Rodriguez said.

"These people don't care about God and they don't care about the law," Rodriguez said. "That's how bold they are. That's what is scary."

Thieves burglarized a large tool box that was inside the church and held hydraulic and electronic tools. They also stole 14,000 feet of copper wire for an estimated total loss of $5,000, Miramar Police Officer Natasha Richardson said of the break-in that happened Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.

The burglars also tried to move a piece of heavy equipment blocked the entrance to an outdoor storage trailer, but were unsuccessful, she said.

"It would have been a bigger loss if they had been able to get into that trailer," Richardson said.

Also targeted by thieves overnight was a gas station under construction at 16961 Miramar Pkwy. It had about $16,500 in losses after two generators, a compressor, tools and 30-feet of wire were stolen, according to police.

"The two incidents are possibly related because they both happened overnight and are close by," Richardson said. "It could be the same people."

Richardson said crime scene investigators will look for fingerprints or anything the burglars may have dropped as well as footprints or tire tracks, "Any kind of clues that might help solve the case. Sometimes people leave their burglary tools at the location. Some people have actually dropped their driver's licenses. It's surprising."

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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) April 03, 2015

Building God's Way (BGW), a national leader in church design and church building, will host the next in its spring series of Momentum Summit seminars at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday, April 8 from 8:30 am - 12:30pm. The event is free to all ministry leaders and will be followed by a complimentary lunch. More than 900 ministry leaders attended a Momentum Summit event in 2014 and this year's events are expected to draw even more.

Churches and other non-profits are facing ever-increasing financial challenges to sustaining their ministries, including cultural shifts in attitudes toward church, changing tax legislation and generational changes in charitable giving. The focus of the Momentum Summit is to introduce new paradigms and to transform the way ministry leaders think about how their facilities are designed and utilized, how they can effectively reach all generations and how they can integrate for-profit enterprise to expand ministry opportunities.

The speaker panel will feature experts and consultants who have worked with hundreds of ministries across the country in the areas of church leadership & growth; church design, construction & remodel; capital fundraising; for-profit integration, biblical entrepreneurship, A/V technology and more.

The keynote speaker for the seminars will be Pastor Eric Bahme, a cutting-edge entrepreneur, passionate preacher and author of the book, The MBE (Mission-Based Entrepreneur) Revolution / Developing Economic Engines that Drive Mission-Based Movements. Eric and his stories of successful for-profit integration with churches have been featured on the 700 Club, Harvest Show, and in several local and national publications and television broadcasts.

A representative from BGW Architects will present sessions on designing authentic, flexible and community-based church buildings as well as a revolutionary & biblical approach to the church construction process. S&B Construction, the exclusive BGW contractor for the state of Texas, will also have representatives on hand during the seminar to answer questions and share their expertise on church construction & remodel.

For more information or to register for Momentum Summit, visit the website at http://www.bgwservices.com/seminar or call 866-249-8484.

About Building Gods Way (BGW) - BGW has become a recognized leader in ministry design and construction through its extensive experience in working with hundreds of churches, Christian schools and colleges across the U.S. BGW's trademark programs based on Biblical stewardship and ministry on the construction job site have set them apart in the industry. BGW clients typically save 20-30% compared to average construction costs (based on RS Means construction cost data). BGW's broad network includes the most experienced church architects, church builders and engineers, as well as experts in the areas of funding, leadership & church growth, for-profit integration, A/V technology and more.

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Planning Commission approves South Shores Church project after seven years of hearings and plan modifications

South Shores Churchs plan to expand its Crown Valley Parkway campus in phases over 10 years was unanimously approved by the Dana Point Planning Commission on Monday. Photo: Andrea Swayne

By Andrea Swayne

Since 2009, South Shores Church has been pursuing approval of an expansion plan that would more than double its size. With a packed house at the Community Center gymnasiuma vast majority of the seats filled with people showing support for the project by wearing bright green T-shirtsthe Dana Point Planning Commission on Monday approved conditional use, coastal development and site development permits and the final Environmental Impact Report for the project.

Project opponents, most living in adjacent neighborhoods, have long criticized the project; fearing impacts of such a large and lengthy project would include excessive noise, traffic, debris, pollution and runoff, as well as concerns related to the stability of the slope below the 6-acre site at 32712 Crown Valley Parkway.

The campus currently has a chapel, sanctuary, administration building/fellowship hall, a preschool and a 28-space parking lot. Plans will require the demolition of three of the churchs existing buildingsnot to include the sanctuary buildingand the construction of four new ones along with a new parking structure.

The original 2009 proposal included a preschool/administration building, a Community Life Center, two education buildings and a 421-space, two-level, semi-subterranean parking structure. In total, the church was planning a 46,817-square-foot increase in size to 89,362 square feet. The 10-year-long construction schedule was also a source of concern.

A public scoping meeting was held in March of 2010 for the then-in process Draft EIR being prepared by LSA Associates. In 2011, the deadline for the EIR completion was extended to 2013 to allow adequate time for the extensive geo-technical evaluation of the site, according to city officials. Further extension of the deadline brought the final EIRs official completion date to March 2015. City staff reported to commissioners that the final EIR identified no significant impacts.

During the public review period for the project, in addition to comments at public meetings, city staff reported receiving 118 letters61 letters raised concerns, 53 were in support of the project, two from state agencies (the Office of Planning and Research and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife), one from Orange County Public Works and one (or possibly a few more from the public) were duplicates.

The Community Center Gym was packed with South Shores Church expansion plan supporters in green shirts Monday night when the Planning Commission approved permits and the EIR for the project, which has been in the works for seven years. Photo: Andrea Swayne

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BENWOOD - Still in shock from seeing their church damaged by a massive fire, members of the St. John Catholic Church on Wednesday said they hoped the 140-year-old building can be saved.

Engineers could be seen assessing the damage on Wednesday morning, hoisted to the top of the church in a crane from Savage Construction. Bryan Minor, spokesman for the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, said the diocese is waiting for the engineer's report before making a decision about whether the church can be saved.

"The work by the structural engineer will take time. They have to check on how strong the walls are and how strong floor is under the pews. The fire department told us on Monday there was a foot or more of water lying on the floor - that's a lot weight," Minor said. "We're preceding with an abundance of caution until we get the full engineering report."

Photo by Shelley Hanson A charred timber pokes through a stained glass window at the St. John Catholic Church in Benwood on Wednesday morning.

Photo by Shelley Hanson Engineers check on the condition of the St. John Catholic Church in Benwood on Wednesday.

Minor said the parish school's students are on spring break next week and are scheduled to come back to class April 13. Even though damage to the school was minimal, Minor said if the students cannot use the building, other possible structures are being looked at for them to finish out the year in.

"The problem is with the walls. With the school there, we have to know if it's in danger of falling," he said.

Also at the scene Wednesday were agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as well as officials with the state Fire Marshal's office. Minor said ATF officials told the diocese it was "standard procedure" to assist the fire marshal in investigations. He said the fire marshal's office said the cause still is being determined, but no one believes it was arson.

Several city residents were seen walking along Main Street on Wednesday, talking to each other about the fire and the fate of the church.

Lifelong Benwood resident David Branicky attended St. John's parish school as a child and was an altar boy for the church. He remembers how nervous he was the first time he had to read the epistle in front of the congregation. It was something usually reserved for adults, he said.

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SALT LAKE CITY Last April, LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson opened general conference with unusual news: He would not announce any new temples that day or in the near future.

In fact, as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathers for another general conference on Saturday and Sunday, two years have passed since the last announcement of a new temple, in April 2013, when President Monson revealed plans for temples in Cedar City, Utah, and Rio de Janeiro.

A two-year lag between temple announcements is rare for what President Monson has called a temple-building people.

The last time Latter-day Saints saw more time pass without a new temple announcement was the six years between 1984 and 1990, a span that straddled the church presidencies of Spencer W. Kimball and Ezra Taft Benson.

In the 25 years since 1990, the church's membership doubled from 7.7 million members to more than 15 million.

At the same time, the number of completed temples jumped from 44 to 144.

Many more will be built. President Monson suspended announcements of new temples to allow the church's temple department to concentrate efforts on a backlog of 28 previously announced temples.

Two of those 28 opened by the end of 2014 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Phoenix.

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The Payson Utah Temple will be dedicated in 2015.

LDS Church

SALT LAKE CITY Last April, LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson opened general conference with unusual news: He would not announce any new temples that day or in the near future.

In fact, as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathers for another general conference on Saturday and Sunday, two years have passed since the last announcement of a new temple, in April 2013, when President Monson revealed plans for temples in Cedar City, Utah, and Rio de Janeiro.

A two-year lag between temple announcements is rare for what President Monson has called a temple-building people.

The last time Latter-day Saints saw more time pass without a new temple announcement was the six years between 1984 and 1990, a span that straddled the church presidencies of Spencer W. Kimball and Ezra Taft Benson.

In the 25 years since 1990, the church's membership doubled from 7.7 million members to more than 15 million.

At the same time, the number of completed temples jumped from 44 to 144.

Many more will be built. President Monson suspended announcements of new temples to allow the church's temple department to concentrate efforts on a backlog of 28 previously announced temples.

Two of those 28 opened by the end of 2014 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Phoenix.

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Coptic Christians pray at a symbolic funeral for the 21 Egyptian Christians who were beheaded in Libya by Islamic State last month. (Reuters)

Relatives of the Coptic Christians beheaded last month by jihadists in Libya their deaths immortalized in a gory video set against the backdrop of a Mediterranean beach are facing new extremist-Muslim violence as they seek to build a church to honor their murdered loved ones.

An angry mob in the Upper Egyptian village of Al Our the proposed site of the church because it was home to 13 of the 21 Christians murdered in the mass beachfront decapitation descended on the communitys current church after the midday Islamic prayer Friday and chanted that theyd never allow construction of the new place of worship to begin, witnesses told Egyptian activists in the U.S.

- Mina Abdelmalak, Coptic Christian

Things turned far uglier after nightfall, the witnesses said, as a smaller number of individuals threw Molotov cocktails and stones at the church, injuring several people, and setting cars ablaze, including one that belonged to a relative of one of the victims of the Libyan massacre.

The police came, but after the attack, said Mina Abdelmalak, a Coptic Christian living in Washington who is in close contact with the witnesses to the events in Al Our. There were already cars on fire. People had been bloodied. Stones and bricks had been thrown.

Some protesters also appeared at the family home of massacre victim Samuel Alham Wilson, but, in a gesture that provided some hope, were chased off by Muslim neighbors when the protesters started throwing stones.

Copts are the native Christians of Egypt, accounting for about 10 percent of the countrys 88 million people.

While they have traditionally faced varying levels of persecution in the mainly Muslim country, the Copts of Al Our -- a village on the Nile about 125 miles south of Cairo -- have additionally been in deep mourning since the Islamic State released its video Feb. 15 showing the beheading of the Christians -- 20 of them Copts, the other from Ghana.

The 13 from Al Our like their fellow Christians with whom they died had gone to Libya to seek work because their poverty-stricken home communities offered none or little that was viable.

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At least seven people were wounded in an attack on a Christian church in the Egyptian province of Minya late Friday, in the latest incident of violence against the countrys Coptic Christian minority. The church had been established to commemorate the 20 Coptic Christians beheaded in Libya by the Islamic State militant group. Thirteen of the victims came from Minyas al-Our village, where the church was being built, Daily News Egypt reported Sunday.

Coptic residents of al-Our had obtained permission to build the church in the aftermath of the beheadings in Libya, which left the impoverished villages Christian community devastated. Thousands of people had mourned the victims following the release of an Islamic State video last month showing the men being executed. The beheadings prompted the Egyptian government to begin an air campaign in Libya targeting the militant group, also known as ISIS.

In the weeks since the massacre, plans to honor the victims with a church dedicated to their memory have been igniting sectarian tensions in the province, which is home to one of the largest concentrations of the countrys Coptic minority. Coptic Christians are estimated to make up 10 to 20 percent of the Egyptian population.

Some of al-Ours Muslim residents had protested the churchs construction and particularly its placement at the entrance of the village, DNE reported. Following midday prayers on Friday, scores of young Muslims gathered in front of the site where the church was being built to rally against its construction. While the crowd eventually dispersed without incident, a small group of men targeted the site with Molotov cocktails later in the evening.

Violence between Muslim and Christian communities in Minya has become more frequent since 2013, when Egypts first democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi was deposed in a coup by the military. In the immediate aftermath of the violent dispersal of Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo in August 2013, at least 42 churches were attacked across the country, with at least three Coptic Christians and one Muslim killed in Minya, according to Human Rights Watch. Some supporters of Morsi, who was supported by the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, believe Christians had a role in his overthrow and reprisal attacks against the minority group have become increasingly common in the southern Egyptian province.

Some attribute the root causes of the the provinces sectarian tensions to the government's neglect of southern Egypt over the past decades. [Minya] lacks the development and projects needed to sap the energy of young people and protect them from people who exploit them in this kind of strife, such as the Muslim Brotherhood or other parties with particular interests," said the provinces security chief, Maj. Gen. Osama Metwally, in a 2014 interview with Al-Monitor. We are faced with many difficulties, most important of which is that people here have highly volatile temperaments, with full-blown sectarian strife almost erupting as a result of trivial disputes that nearly become religious catastrophes.

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The construction of a Speedway gasoline station and convenience store at the corner of Route 51 and Quaker Church Road in Perryopolis will cause traffic restrictions for motorists and limit school bus movements between April 6 and April 19, according to Marathon Petroleum Co.

Stefanie Griffith, spokeswoman for Marathon Petroleum Co. public affairs, said the project will force some traffic changes because of the closure of the intersection as construction continues. Access to Quaker Church Road will be detoured over Tony Row Road from Route 51 for the two weeks of construction.

The southbound right lane of Route 51 will be closed from a point just before the intersection and just past the construction area for a total of about .25 miles, Griffith said. The left turning lane in the northbound lanes will be closed.

According to a news release put out by the company, roadway improvements and driveway installations will be completed during the closure.

The closure was originally scheduled to begin on April 1, but was delayed until after the Easter holiday.

The change may force the Frazier School District to modify some bus routes, said Suzanne Boni, district transportation director. She said she is setting up a meeting with the bus company to determine what changes should be made during the project.

Presently, a bus comes off of Quaker Church (Road), said Boni. It will have to go on Janet Street or another bus that uses Janet (Street) may pick up students that presently use the bus that picks up the Quaker Church Road students.

She said the determination will be made after a discussion with the bus company.

PennDOT officials referred all questions about the project to Marathon Petroleum Co., owner of the Speedway.

Karl Polacek is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at kpolacek@tribweb.com or 724-626-3538.

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