In the winter of 1878 by request of a temporary resident of Welaka the Rev. W.H. Williams of Crescent City began a monthly service in the afternoon of a Sunday. The service was held in the public school room, which was two lower rooms thrown into one in a tumbledown dwelling.

The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd Jacksonville hosted two events for The Right Reverend Charles Lovett Keyser, Assisting Bishop of Florida, and his family this past weekend – July 7-9, 2017. On the evening of Friday, July 7, The Rev. Ron Owen assisted Bishop Keyser in the Blessing of a Civil Marriage and Eucharist for Charlie Keyser and Erin Ball, Bishop Keyser’s grandson and his wife. They are the parents of young Charles Warren Lovett Keyser, Jr. who was baptized with Father Owen’s assistance on Sunday, July 9.

In 2001, Ben Hill retired as a Senior Vice President from CBS. He and his wife Dot left Washington D.C. and bought a home just outside Gainesville, Florida with the thought of enjoying a quiet life in the country. However, in 2010, the folks at CBS found Ben and asked him to go to the West Palm office and run their South Florida offices. Ben agreed to do that, and he and Dot kept their country oasis and commuted from office to home. A year after that, CBS asked him to also run the Tampa, Florida office.