Valero gives $200K for Texas Panhandle First Responders Memorial
Friends of AJ Swope is working toward a $1.5 million fundraising goal for the downtown Amarillo memorial and expects to start construction in 2024.
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Friends of AJ Swope is working toward a $1.5 million fundraising goal for the downtown Amarillo memorial and expects to start construction in 2024.
AMARILLO, Texas (RNS) — After all seven United Methodist churches in this city in the Texas Panhandle voted to leave the country’s second-largest Protestant denomination, an 83-year-old UMC minister became determined that the UMC wouldn't become extinct in Amarillo.
Retired pastor takes lead in founding church in a West Texas city beset by disaffiliations.
After every single Methodist church in Amarillo voted to leave the United Methodist denomination, a new UMC was officially chartered on Sunday.
Amarillo United Methodist Church to be chartered as official UMC congregation