Good News - July 2022

On The Cover BransonAcademy for theAdvancement of Music and Theatre (BAAMT) board members gather in the studio at Meadows Images, in Branson, Missouri. (Marshall Meadows, photographer) Pictured from left to right: Bob Nichols, President, BAAMT; Lena Hughes, Director, Hughes Brothers Theater; Sheila Dutton, Director, The Dutton Family Theater; Mike Patrick, Director, Grand Country Music Hall; Brandon Mabe, Director, Branson Famous Theatre, BaldKnobbers; Not pictured: Larry Wilhite, Director, Mansion Theater for PerformingArts; Jeannie Horton, Director, Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Theater, Home of Legends in Concert; and Marshall Howden, City of Branson Board of Aldermen Representative. These are some of the leaders who are making a global impact through the BRANSON CARES initiative by raising funds and awareness to provide wheelchairs for children with severe disabilities. Read the Cover Story on pages 28 and 29. PUBLISHER 6 JULY 2022 www.goodnewsfl.org Good News • South Florida Edition We go through life, and it can be a wonderful journey if we take in the sights. Sometimes we are in such a hurry to reach our destination we don’t notice things along the way. Ahectic life is like that. My curiosity often gets the best of me, and it’s the journey, not the travel. I’ve spent the majority of my life in and around the allied fields of entertainment. It’s an industry that moves the needle. I like that. When in reflection or in Bible Study, my mind does a 360⁰ and I seek the lesson, not somuch the story. How can I use or learn from this?What’s my takeaway? Not themeaning in life’s cliches. God puts the pieces together. We know this, but are we aware of it while it’s happening? Our cover feature “BRANSON CARES” is about motivation. It’s about encouragement. It’s about engagement. For the past fifty years I’ve loved being in and around the Arts and Entertainment world; it’s the creative “can do” where people constantly create music, plays and movies. Use me. I get it and I relate to it. It’s a beautiful thing when you have a vision and can see a finish line. In 1981 one of my best friends and mentors at that time was theatrical producer Zev Buffman. Zev was producer at the Parker Playhouse and was 10 years deep into getting the Broward Center built before they actually broke ground. Zev was a visionary and the actual creator of what is now called BroadwayAcrossAmerica and founder/owner of the Miami Heat in the National Basketball Association. I met Hollywood movie star Elizabeth Taylor, who was just cast by Buffman to play the Parker and star in “The Little Foxes” prior to her NYBroadway debut. Now I could dispense with all the name dropping, but by eliminating that, it would suggest that this story is about something I did and not what I learned from others and how God used me to put some of the pieces together. Between 1981 and 1984 Miss Taylor’s follow up to Foxes was to again star on Broadway with Richard Burton in “Private Lives” another Buffman Production. Miss Taylor had enormous empathy for what was totally devastating Hollywood and Broadway at that time and that was HIV/AIDS. Taylor founded amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. Taylor’s huge unparalleled star power helped morph what later became the seed for “Broadway Cares.” I was there. I watched. I interjected through my publishing endeavors at PLAYBILL ®, and we all learned together when an industry, in this case a village pulls together without ego of authorship and digs in. Please read the cover story by Good News Editor Shelly Pond on pages 2829. I’m simply a vessel who recognized an extraordinary village called Branson, Missouri, where you’re likely to see more white church vans than passenger cars loaded with God’s finest coming in from seven surrounding states, for a few days of Gospel and Country Music. That I first discovered in 1995, when Theater owners invited me in and wanted a PLAYBILL program for Branson. I get Theater people, I like Theater people, and I embraced Theater people. God found the right time to inspireme to engage, and that chapter is currently being written as an entire city is passionately embracing BRANSON CARES to provide for Hope Haven International, a Global Wheelchair Ministry providing pediatric wheelchairs for children with severe disabilities. BransonCares.com Let this be a moment to observe how a city inspired can do wonderful things together. Motivate. Inspire. Engage. We are alive. We are blessed. Les South Florida Edition • Good News • July 2022 • Volume 24, Issue 4 Advertising: We reach over 110,000 readers each month. 80,000 in print and 30,000 via our online digital edition. Placing an ad in our publication is affordable and effective to help grow your business. Call us today! Distribution: Available inmore than 800 locations throughout South Florida. To become a free distribution point for the newspaper, please contact Shelly. The Good News is published by Good News Media Group, LLC, Reproduction in whole or part strictly forbidden without the consent of the publisher. Copyright 2022. All rights reserved. Good News Media Group, LLC. PO Box 670368, Coral Springs, FL 33067 954-564-5378 • www.goodnewsfl.org Publisher: Leslie J. Feldman [email protected] Editor: Shelly Pond [email protected] Art Director: Milton McPherson [email protected] Advertising & Marketing: Robert “Buddy” Helland Jr. V.P. Sr. Marketing Manager [email protected] Al Lehman Sr. Marketing Director [email protected] Vice President: Michael Denker Corporate Engagement [email protected] Social Media Manager: Ariel Feldman [email protected] Editorial Assistant: Eric Solomon [email protected] Cover Photography: Justus Martin [email protected] Use me, Lord PERSPECTIVE . . . . . . . . . . .8 Hiking with Tequila – by Stephan N. Tchividjian IN THE WORD . . . . . . . . .10 Franklin Graham: Triumphing Over Evil – by Franklin Graham CHURCH UNITED . . . . . .12 Roe v. Wade Overturned. Now What? - by Edwin Copeland OPINION . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 OVERTURNED! Leaders Respond to the Historical Reversal of Roe v. Wade YOU ASKWHY? . . . . . . . .16 Living In-Dependence– by Dr. Tommy Boland LIVE THE LIFE . . . . . . . . . .18 Is the Destruction of our Families Fostering Mental Illness? – by Lisa May PARENTING . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Some Assembly Required – by Dr. Bob Barnes & Torrey Roberts HEART AND SOUL . . . . .22 Reflections on the Meaning of Independence Day – by Dr. Debra A. Schwinn GOOD NEWS WANTS TO KNOW . . . . . . . . .24 - 26 What TV show character (past or present) would be the most fun to change places with for a week? COVER STORY . . . . . .28 - 29 How the Entertainment Industry is Leading a Community to Make a Global Impact – by Shelly Pond THE CODE . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Stress: Five Fascinating Facts – by Dr. O.S. Hawkins VILLAGE HYMNS . . . . . . .32 Why We Worship – by Ryan Galloway OPINION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Don’t Worry; Get Busy Living! – by Newton Fairweather LEGAL Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . .36 New Insurance and Condo Reforms – by William “Bill” C. Davell and Matthew Zifrony FAITH AND VOCATION .38 The Dreaded D Word – by Dr. Tracy Timberlake OUT OF ZION . . . . . . . . . .40 The Blessing of a Little Shabbat Shalom – by Susan Michael CALENDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . .44 - 47 Leslie J. Feldman C O N T E N T S Good News • July • Volume 24 Issue 4

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