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ST. LUCIE WEST • TRADITION
YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 4/ISSUE 38
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016
Tradition may be getting a new neighbor
Christ Fellowship’s new pastor extends warm family welcome
Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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TRADITION — New neighbors got a narrow nod to start building. “I think it’s a good project and I want to see it get off the ground,” Martin County Commissioner John Haddox said at a recent meeting. Whoa, wait. Martin County? Yep. There might be a bridge in Tradition’s future. Drive south on Tradition’s Village Parkway long enough and there’s a four-way stop that makes no sense. The intersection with Becker Road is now a traffic L funneling traffic north and east. Lights for the non-existent eastbound drivers on Becker make sense. Looking west, it’s easy to see how development will fill in the land and road with cars will appear. But lights are up to tell northbound drivers on the Parkway when to stop and go. But, there’s no northbound traffic going through the intersection and it seems like there can’t ever be. It doesn’t seem like there could ever be more Village Parkway south of Becker. The County Line Canal, C-23, is only about
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Photo courtesy of Christ Fellowship Senior Pastor Travis Dean and his wife, Jenni Dean join Christ Fellowship Core Staff, public officials, and volunteers in the Blue Ribbon Ceremony for their 6th campus and Grand Opening of the new Christ Fellowship Church St Lucie Campus in Tradition. Service times are Sundays 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., and 12:30 p.m. More than 4,000 visitors have participated, and new service days and times will be announced in the following months.
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TRADITION — Barna Group, an evangelical Christian polling firm based in Ventura, Calif., reports in Year in Review: Barna’s Top 10 Findings in 2015 that not only has church attendance dropped significantly, but after 60,0000 interviews conducted over a 7-year period, more than 44 percent of Americans qualify as “post-Christian,” with women taking the lead in disengaging from church culture. Opening a new church may seem risky in light of those re-
cent statistics. The United States Census Bureau of Records reported that more than 4,000 churches close their doors annually, and 2.7 million churchgoers become inactive and eventually leave. Compared to the rest of the world, The United States now ranks 3rd, trailing behind China and India in the number of people who profess to be non-Christian. However, last weekend, Christ Fellowship opened the doors of their Port St. Lucie campus, located in Tradition, with an amazing turnout. Leading with a widely successful “At the Movies” series from
2015, more than 4,000 visitors in a single day arrived on Grand Opening Day. Guests had to park at the public school parking lot down the road. Originally, church services were scheduled for 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. This week, they announced three service times. Starting July 24, church service times are 8:30 a.m, 10:30 a.m, and 12:30 p.m. Visitors can expect to be greeted at the door by volunteers, offered free popcorn, snacks, and bottled water, along with golf cart rides to cars, and ushers dressed up like movie-theater attendants.
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