When UPS driver sees a need, his group springs into action
GEORGE MORRIS, The Advocate
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1of9UPS driver James Big Brown Joseph delivers boxes of hand sanitizers and masks for schoolchildren to Belfair Montessori Magnet School Wednesday April 14, 2021, in Baton Rouge, La. (Bill Feig/The Advocate via AP)Bill Feig/APShow MoreShow Less
2of9As Jeremy Noah, Physical Education instructor, right, watches, UPS driver James Big Brown Joseph, center, hands packs of masks to Shannon Johnson, school counselor, left, as he delivers boxes of hand sanitizers and masks for schoolchildren to Belfair Montessori Magnet School Wednesday April 14, 2021, in Baton Rouge, La. (Bill Feig/The Advocate via AP)Bill Feig/APShow MoreShow Less
COVID-19: Taylor County adds 1 death, 13 cases Friday
Staff report
The deceased was a woman in her 80s, health officials said.
Also Friday, the health district reported 13 new cases of COVID-19, as well as 10 recoveries.
Nine of the new cases were confirmed by polymerase chain reaction testing, and four by antigen testing.
Active cases total 232 (121 PCR and 111 antigen), up from 217 on May 1.
COVID-19 inpatients at Abilene hospitals total 11, five fewer than reported Thursday. The average age of the patients is 60. Four of the inpatients live outside Taylor County.
The percentage of COVID-19 inpatients in the Abilene trauma service area was 1.96% Thursday, compared to 2.37% Wednesday and 2.02% Tuesday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services COVID-19 website.
This is the cover of Jesus, King of Strangers: What the Bible Really Says about Immigration by Mark W. Hamilton. The book is reviewed by Agostino Bono.(CNS)
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The highly polarized political climate in the United States puts on center stage on the waves of people attempting entry from south of the border. Besides the legitimate legal issues of border security and what should be the rules governing immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees, the situation has become enmeshed in the culture wars and dicey arguments about U.S. identity: ethnically, racially, linguistically and morally.
I wanted to pursue what I feel I ve been called to pursue, Catteau, 22, said. My cousin is going to Tech and it just felt like the best fit for me.
Catteau will join about 750 other ACU graduates at ceremonies Saturday, spread out to encourage social distancing and other COVID-19-based efforts to prevent spread.
ACU also had a graduate-level ceremony Friday, presenting 360 masters and 100 doctoral degrees.
Early life a constant inspiration
Catteau didn t have a traditional path toward graduation in the United States.
Born in the Bao an district of the city of Shenzhen, China from which he gets his first name a police officer found him as an infant under a viaduct.
Max Lucado receives the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award
Honoring more than 35 years of publishing with more than 145 million products in print that are distributed in 80 countries and translated into 45 languages worldwide
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Bestselling author and pastor Max Lucado was awarded the 2021 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) Pinnacle Award today for the outstanding contribution of his writing, both to the publishing industry and to society at large.
Lucado is only the fourth recipient of this honor from ECPA, that recognizes the outstanding contribution by an author or book. It was presented at the ECPA Awards Celebration on May 6 at 1:00 pm CST, via webinar at the conclusion of the ECPA Leadership Summit.