A mix of military, family, friends and patriotic motorcycle riders gathered at Plant City's First Baptist Church on Saturday to honor and mourn the loss of Army Spc. Eric Lembke, who was killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb Oct. 23. ...more

November 8, 2009

St. James United Methodist Church is changing with the times. Starting Sunday, the congregation at 16202 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. is breaking with one of its oldest traditions: The church is dropping the 8 a.m. Sunday service. ...more

March 28, 2009

St. James United Methodist Church is changing with the times. Starting March 29, the congregation at 16202 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. is breaking with one of its oldest traditions. The church is dropping the 8 a.m. Sunday service. ...more

March 18, 2009

Elvis crooned about it. "You'll be doing all right, with your Christmas of white, but I'll have a blue, blue Christmas." ...more

December 5, 2008

Hundreds attended the funeral this morning of a popular Plant High School senior who was killed in wreck during the weekend. ...more

November 19, 2008

What was once a barren, cream-colored wall is now an elaborate backdrop for a replica of one of history's most revered paintings: "The Last Supper." ...more

September 24, 2008

The ceremony, celebration and rites were ancient, and included incense and solemn chanting, with roots that could be traced back to the era of Jesus Christ and the 12 Apostles. ...more

September 24, 2008

It was just the sort of celebration their gregarious pastor and his fun-loving, guitar-playing son would have enjoyed. ...more

May 18, 2008

It was just the sort of celebration their gregarious pastor and his fun-loving, guitar-playing son would have enjoyed. ...more

May 17, 2008

Cassandra Serine and her two teenage children already were planning to leave Thomasville, Ga. They say they wanted more from their lives and their church. They found it on God TV, live from Lakeland. ...more

May 10, 2008