Author: Austin Avenue United Methodist Church (Waco, Tex.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Ronald F. Murray
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Category : Waco (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Todd Bradford Willis
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Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Cecile Swayze Ramsey
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Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Cecile Swayze Ramsey
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Category : McLennan County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Austin Avenue United Methodist Church (Waco, Tex.)
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Category : Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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"This brief history of the Austin Avenue United Methodist Church was written for the application for an official Texas Historical subject marker and an official Texas Historical Building marker from the Texas Historical Commission. THe historical subject and building markers were dedicated as a part of the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the congregation"--Preface.

Author: John Edwin Guest
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Category : Church management
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Author: Jack Kyle Daniels
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438950934
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Under any description of the start of my life, the odds were against me. With the untimely death of my mother at age 31 in September and the suicide of my father on the following Christmas Day, I was orphaned at the age of two along with six siblings. Through the efforts of a Methodist pastor, we were placed in the Methodist Orphans Home in Waco, Texas on January 21, 1937. This is the story of my life and how I was able to overcome those gigantic odds. Who would believe that the two-year-old orphan boy would later serve for the last twenty-five years of his career as the President/CEO of the agency that rescued him and his six siblings?

Author: Eric S. Ames
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738571317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Founded in 1849, Waco is located near an ancient spring on the banks of the Brazos River and has often been a city of contrasts. It has been home to Native Americans and a place of new beginnings for pioneers. It has produced a Texas governor named Coke and a soft drink called Dr Pepper. Waco boasts the first suspension bridge across the Brazos River and the first skyscraper in Texasthe 22-story ALICO Building. It is home to the largest Baptist university in the world and once had one of the largest legal red light districts in the country. The city found itself in the middle of an 1896 Crash at Crush marketing gimmick that drew national attention and was later the site of a World War I airfield. And for more than 150 years, Wacos defining moments have been documented in photographs.

Author: Lisa J. Shaver
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822977427
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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In the formative years of the Methodist Church in the United States, women played significant roles as proselytizers, organizers, lay ministers, and majority members. Although women's participation helped the church to become the nation's largest denomination by the mid-nineteenth century, their official roles diminished during that time. In Beyond the Pulpit, Lisa Shaver examines Methodist periodicals as a rhetorical space to which women turned to find, and make, self-meaning. In 1818, Methodist Magazine first published "memoirs" that eulogized women as powerful witnesses for their faith on their deathbeds. As Shaver observes, it was only in death that a woman could achieve the status of minister. Another Methodist publication, the Christian Advocate, was America's largest circulated weekly by the mid-1830s. It featured the "Ladies' Department," a column that reinforced the canon of women as dutiful wives, mothers, and household managers. Here, the church also affirmed women in the important rhetorical and evangelical role of domestic preacher. Outside the "Ladies Department," women increasingly appeared in "little narratives" in which they were portrayed as models of piety and charity, benefactors, organizers, Sunday school administrators and teachers, missionaries, and ministers' assistants. These texts cast women into nondomestic roles that were institutionally sanctioned and widely disseminated. By 1841, the Ladies' Repository and Gatherings of the West was engaging women in discussions of religion, politics, education, science, and a variety of intellectual debates. As Shaver posits, by providing a forum for women writers and readers, the church gave them an official rhetorical space and the license to define their own roles and spheres of influence. As such, the periodicals of the Methodist church became an important public venue in which women's voices were heard and their identities explored.