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Lubbock couple takes church to troubled children
___By Russ Dilday
___Buckner News Service
___LUBBOCK--When Joel Edgmon got the call for his next assignment as a Mission Service Corps missionary, it wasn't by phone--which was a good thing, because he couldn't have answered it anyway. He was in the shower.
___But God needs no phones, and Edgmon clearly heard God calling him and his wife, Judy, to teach and lead worship at Buckner Children's Home in Lubbock.
___No one was more surprised than Edgmon himself.
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PULPIT POWER: The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
___By Ben Johnson
___Religion News Service
___HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (RNS)--Ask the average person to recite two or three lines from a sermon by Martin Luther King Jr. and you're likely to hear a familiar refrain: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
___Those are the noted last three sentences from King's "I Have a Dream" speech delivered during the 1963 March on Washington. Considering the major role King played in the civil rights movement in the 20th century, it's easy to forget he was a preacher at heart, said Mervyn Warren, a professor at Oakwood College in Huntsville.
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DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXANS: East Texas businessman Bo Pilgrim
___Since 1946, Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim has built Pilgrim's Pride from a small feed store in the East Texas village of Pittsburg into an international Fortune 500 corporation. Through it all, he has remained a faithful husband, father and grandfather, provided steady leadership in his local Baptist church and supported numerous Baptist causes.
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