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A Friend in Need

Posted Monday, November 18, 2019 5:00 am

Matt Peek

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Two things can be true at the same time. I never intended to become a fire chaplain. “It was never on my Bingo card,” as they say. For me, it came along with the job. I was going to be the pastor of the area church, so I became the chaplain for the volunteer fire department at the end of the street.

SBTC DR begins helping survivors, first responders navigate the emotional toll following deadly floods

KERRVILLE, Texas — A lost kitten proved one thing too many for a Kerrville area homeowner with whom Southern Baptists of Texas Convention Disaster Relief chaplain Debby Nichols spoke in the days following the July 4 flash flooding in the Texas Hill Country.

Trump tours Texas flood damage

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump arrived Friday in Texas for a firsthand look at the devastation from the state's catastrophic flooding.

US is selling weapons to NATO allies to give to Ukraine, Trump says

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is selling weapons to its NATO allies in Europe so they can provide them to Ukraine as it struggles to fend off a recent escalation in Russia’s drone and missile attacks, President Donald Trump and his chief diplomat said.

Son of ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty in US drug trafficking case

CHICAGO (AP) — A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug trafficking charges. He is the first of El Chapo’s sons to enter a plea deal.

Appeals court throws out plea deal for alleged mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s 2001 terror attacks.

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