
THE ROOF of First Baptist Church in Corsicana collapsed about 8 p.m. Saturday June 5. Had it happened 15 hours later, more than 600 people would have been in the worship service. (Photo by Loyd Cook, Corsicana Daily Sun)
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Mavericks and Spurs players
line up for God on TV special
___By James Dotson
___SBC North American Mission Board
___FORT WORTH (BP)--Critical fans may think professional basketball players are only concerned about laying up treasures of gold, but a network television special to be broadcast this summer highlights players who are laying up heavenly treasures.
___Hubert Davis of the Dallas Mavericks and David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs will be featured in "Layup Treasures," a production of the North American Mission Board's broadcast communications group in partnership with Dallas-based production company VisionQuest Communications Group. The show will be distributed to NBC network affiliates June 23 as part of the "Horizons of the Spirit" series. Individual stations determine whether to air the program and when.
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First Kosovo refugees arrive
___By Dan Martin
___Texas Baptist Communications
___CORSICANA--A Kosovo refugee family of four departed American Airlines flight 229 at 3:08 p.m. last Thursday and entered a new life in small-town Texas, half a world away from the war-torn land they were forced to flee.
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Schedule cleared; Youth Evangelism Conference will be in Alamodome
___By Dan Martin
___Texas Baptist Communications
___SAN ANTONIO--A potential scheduling conflict between the National Basketball Association finals and the Texas Baptist Youth Evangelism Conference has been cleared, and the conference will happen as scheduled June 25-26.
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