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Posted: 9/30/05
Blanche Bolling, the oldest member of First Church in Schulenburg, celebrated her 105th birthday Sept. 21. A reception was held in her honor at the Schulenburg Regency Nursing Home, where she is a resident. She is pictured with Pastor Jeff Atchison. Bolling was a part of the Schulenburg church's reorganization and has been a part of its ministry all 78 years. Even at age 100, she was driving to the nursing home where she resides to pick up residents to take them to church. At that time, she also was leading a Bible study at the nursing home. Around the State
Internationally acclaimed Bible scholar Ben Withering-ton is the featured speaker at the George Knight Bible Conference to be held Oct. 6 at Hardin-Simmons Univer-sity's Logsdon School of Theology. The theme for the conference is “Dispensational-ism and the Rapture Theology: Where Did They Come From?” The 9:30 a.m. presentation, “The Rise and Spread of Dispensational Hermeneu-tics,” the 11:55 a.m. chapel service and the 7 p.m. lecture, “Enraptured but not Uplifted,” are free and open to the public. For more information, call (325) 670-1287. Dennis Prager, a national syndicated radio talk show host, will be the speaker for the inaugural Florence Quinn Distinguished Lecture Series at East Texas Baptist University. Prager, an Orthodox Jew, will speak on “The Finest Value System Ever Devised: The Case for Judeo-Christian Values.” The lecture will be held Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. in Baker Auditorium of the Rogers Spiritual Life Center on campus. Tickets are $15 for advance individual tickets, $12 for advance tickets in blocks of 10 or more, or $20 at the door. For more information, call (903) 923-2070. A four-night crusade at Dalhart Memorial Football Stadium saw 552 spiritual decisions, including 285 first-time professions of faith. Twenty churches joined together for the endeavor. Rick Gage was the evangelist. Earl Hendrick of The Heights Church in Richardson prepares a hospital bed for shipping to Bulgaria. Cookie Slate, a member of the church who also is a board member of Bulgarian Child, Inc., spearheaded the drive to gather donations that filled a 40-foot container with humanitarian aid for Bulgarian orphans. Major donations came from Richardson Medical Center, which donated used medical equipment, and Buckner Orphan Care International's Shoes for Orphan Souls office, which donated thousands of pairs of shoes. Other contributions included computers, play equipment and new clothes. One anonymous couple donated more than 900 pairs of new blue jeans. Over the past eight years, the church has sent 11 similar containers. A group from the church will travel to Bulgaria this month to fit orphans with new shoes, socks and clothes. Gary Singleton is pastor. 09/30/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Beaumont Buckner foster family flees Hurricane Rita
Posted: 9/30/05
Nixon (right) endured a 35-hour drive with 11 foster children, she and daughter Gayle are caring for, to reach safety in Dallas. JoAnn Cole (left) executive director of Buckner Children and Family Services of North Texas, relocated Nixon and 18 others in her foster and extended family to the Buckner Children's Home campus until it is safe to return to Beaumont. (Photos by Russ Dilday) Beaumont Buckner foster
family flees Hurricane RitaBy Russ Dilday
Buckner Benevolences
DALLAS–When the mandatory order to evacuate Beaumont arrived as Hurricane Rita approached, foster parent Ellinor Nixon's motherly instincts kicked in. She prepared the 11 children she and her daughter, Gayle, parent through Buckner Foster Care to leave the next morning for Lufkin.
09/30/2005 - By John Rutledge
Internationally acclaimed Bible scholar Ben Withering-ton is the featured speaker at the George Knight Bible Conference to be held Oct. 6 at Hardin-Simmons Univer-sity's Logsdon School of Theology. The theme for the conference is “Dispensational-ism and the Rapture Theology: Where Did They Come From?” The 9:30 a.m. presentation, “The Rise and Spread of Dispensational Hermeneu-tics,” the 11:55 a.m. chapel service and the 7 p.m. lecture, “Enraptured but not Uplifted,” are free and open to the public. For more information, call (325) 670-1287. 
Dennis Prager, a national syndicated radio talk show host, will be the speaker for the inaugural Florence Quinn Distinguished Lecture Series at East Texas Baptist University. Prager, an Orthodox Jew, will speak on “The Finest Value System Ever Devised: The Case for Judeo-Christian Values.” The lecture will be held Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. in Baker Auditorium of the Rogers Spiritual Life Center on campus. Tickets are $15 for advance individual tickets, $12 for advance tickets in blocks of 10 or more, or $20 at the door. For more information, call (903) 923-2070. 
