By Loretta Fulton Vacation Bible School, the unofficial beginning of summer, is back–as early as Tuesday, May 26. Other churches have VBS scheduled later this week and into June, while at least a few won’t have sessions until July. The summertime mainstay of children for generations, VBS offers spiritual growth, arts and crafts, music, refreshments, and lots of fun each
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By Glenn Dromgoole I was on Facebook the other day with some people from my hometown, people that I hadn’t seen in person in years. And I was reminded that, to them, I will always be Glenn Allen. Not Glenn. Glenn Allen. And I suspect that is true of a good many people, especially from small towns, who were called
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By Grace Sosa I have been doing children’s sermons for over ten years now, first in high school at First Baptist Church in Pecos. Now I take turns with my husband as part of our roles as associate pastors at First Central Presbyterian Church in Abilene. Most of the churches I have seen that still have a children’s sermon ask
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By Jim Nichols The thesis of this set of comments is that each of us can do certain things, but we seldom do them perfectly. Even more alarming as we age is that things we used to be able to do earlier in life have now become difficult if not impossible. If this distresses you, you and I are thinking
Read moreTHE IDLE AMERICANCommentary by Dr. Don Newbury It’s no longer likely that many sons and daughters will enter their parents’ professions. There are exceptions, of course. Seventy-six-year-old Harold Barton is one, son of the late Sonny Barton, who opened his downtown Fort Worth business in 1949, then re-located Barton’s Garage in 1963 to its current location. It could hardly be more obscure–1615
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By the NumbersJan. 1-May 10, 2026700–Families served1,129–Nights of lodging ($250,000 equivalent hotel costs) Since 2018Nights provided:14,145–Tiny Houses1,257–League House1,044–Hotel 201–Salvation Army Houses for Healing InfoLocation: 3065 Hickory St., Abilene, TX 79601Mailing Address: Box 2320, Abilene, TX 79604325-673-4673 https://housesforhealing.com/Click here to donate. By Loretta Fulton “It Takes a Village to Create a Village” That might well be the unofficial motto of Houses For Healing,
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George Levesque, executive director of the Paramount Theater, will be guest speaker at the May 27 meeting of the Abilene Association of Congregations. This will be one of Levesque’s last public presentations before he and his family move to Tampa, Florida, where Levesque will become president and CEO of the Tampa Theater. The public is invited to the luncheon meeting
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By Nancy Patrick We often think of lives as chapters of a book. Our parents document the early years for us in baby books and school milestone mementos. We feign embarrassment and roll our eyes at them, but our own day of reasoning arrives sooner than we expect. Mike and I married at ages eighteen and twenty and have been
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By Jim Nichols Do you get tired of having to make choices? We do not want our life to be completely determined for us, but having to choose everything wears us out. At Hogwarts Academy, at least one major decision was made for the students. You will remember there was a Sorting Hat that identified which one of the four
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