Miami-Dade County

How has faith and your place of worship in Miami-Dade changed your life?

How has faith changed your life?
How has faith changed your life? Getty Images/iStockphoto

As you travel across South Florida, you’ll see houses of worship that have withstood the test of time. Inside these buildings, the faithful pray, attend school, get help from organizations that offer community services..

Your house of worship has likely been with you through the good and the bad, the place for baptisms, bar mitzvahs, weddings and funerals. But churches, synagogues and mosques are not only places where people gather to pray and celebrate.

They are a reflection of the community. They stand proud in neighborhoods despite all the change happening around them: development, demographic shifts, even different views of religion from when they first opened in the Miami area long ago.

We want to know how your faith and your place of worship have affected your life.

How has your house of worship helped shape your life in Miami-Dade? Have you looked to your religious community for help? Are you involved in a youth group or other faith-based group? How does your church, synagogue, mosque (and the people in them) help you practice your faith?

Let us know in the form below.

Michelle Marchante
Miami Herald
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription
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