Part of a $24 million nationwide homebuilding effort reached Tampa today as Habitat for Humanity teamed with a Lutheran group to begin raising a home. ...more

March 21, 2009

My Aunt Pat called last week to remind us we were coming to the Christmas show at her church. I remembered sighing to myself last year when she first called to invite us. I knew about church Christmas pageants, having been in enough of them. But there was no escape. ...more

December 5, 2008

The spider plant made it feel like home. "I grew that in my apartment, waiting for this day," Christine Rideout said last week as she stood on the front porch of her new house. ...more

November 17, 2008

Donating $10 to buy a mosquito net to save an African child from malaria has become a hip way to show you care, especially for teenagers. The movement is like a modern version of the March of Dimes, created in 1938 to defeat polio, or like collecting pennies for UNICEF on Halloween. ...more

June 13, 2008

Five Lutheran churches will close their doors Sunday so their congregations can join together at King of Glory Lutheran Church. ...more

November 17, 2007