BOOK SIGNINGS Monday, Nov. 26, 4-6 p.m. at Texas Star Trading Co., Gary McCaleb, former Abilene mayor, is the co-author of Treasured Places: Celebrating the Richness of America’s Cities & Towns ($18.95 paperback). Saturday, Dec. 1, 10 a.m.-noon at Texas Star Trading Co., Charles Lynn Russell is the author of the novel, Coming Home ($15 paperback) Pre-signed — Playing for More: Trust Beyond
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By LORETTA FULTON It felt and looked more like Christmas Day than Thanksgiving Day, with the temperature hovering around 55 and the sky gray and wintry, but it didn’t matter. The first Thanksgiving Day dinner served in the Aldersgate United Methodist Church community garden was a success. All it took was an exchange between a church member helping host
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Dr. Sandra Hazelip, a world traveler, was honored Nov. 9 at Hillcrest Church of Christ for her numerous trips to one particular spot on the globe, Zambia. Hazelip and her good friend, Ellie Hamby, who spends part of the year each year helping with the Namwianga Zonal Health Center in Zambia, plan to go around the world in 80 days
Read moreBy NANCY PATRICK I enjoy Thanksgiving more than any other holiday. Its position between two of the most publicized holidays of the year—Halloween and Christmas—offers a chance to breathe and focus on something other than commercialism. Thinking about Thanksgiving actually makes me feel good. It reminds me of the plans for my fall wedding back in 1968. Enrolled in Hardin-Simmons
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By DANNY MINTON Frederick Langbridge died in 1923. The one thing that he left behind that has had a lasting impression is a short poem he wrote. It simply says: “Two men look through prison bars;One sees mud the other stars.” It’s a simple little poem with a powerful message. Some people are never happy. They are always looking at
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By LORETTA FULTON Jeff Childers got plenty of feedback from the Carmichael-Walling Lectures at Abilene Christian University–and that was before the lectures were even given. It’s no surprise, considering the title of the annual lecture series: “Friends and Drunks: Two Glimpses into the Social History of the Early Christians and Their World.” Childers joked that the feedback was in the form
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A panel of 10 McMurry University students, professors and the university chaplain will present the program Tuesday for the monthly meeting of the Abilene Interfaith Council. Title of the presentation is “Interfatih Immersion: Learning Through Experience.” The panel will talk about connecting what they learned at the recent Parliament of the World’s Religions to interfaith work in West Texas. The
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You know Thanksgiving is just around the corner with the annual Mission: Thanksgiving is announced by Love & Care Ministries. The 20th annual event will be held 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, in the drive-through parking lot of Arrow Ford, 4001 S. First St. At the same time, a similar Mission: Thanksgiving will be held at the Merkel and Clyde
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National collection week for Operation Christmas Child is Nov. 12-19. Many local churches, organizations, and individuals are participating. Filled boxes are shipped to more than 100 countries through Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical and charitable organization operated by Franklin Graham. Filled boxes can be dropped off at your church if it participates or at First Baptist Church, 1133 N. Third St. or
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