Volunteers came out in droves Friday morning to help find missing 2-year-old JJ Rowland, who officials say disappeared sometime between 10-11 a.m. on Thursday while his mother was sleeping.
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Greater Love Outreach Ministries, a non-denominational church on Yontz Road in Brooksville reaches into the entire community to help people in their daily lives. Reverend Yvonne Woods is the pastor to the approximately 75-member congregation.
After graduating from Eustis Vocational High School in 1963, Reverend Woods attended college in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and began teaching children in the Head Start program. She met her husband in Gettysburg and in 1979 they moved to Brooksville with their four daughters. The couple would go on to have one more daughter after moving here.
She started attending her mother-in-law’s church. After seventeen years as a member of that congregation, Ms. Woods joined another church. Later, when the pastor decided to leave, the deacons came to her and asked her to consider taking over as pastor. She was no stranger to the ministerial life, as her father had been a minister for thirty