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Wolfforth Methodist women sew dresses for Kenyan orphans(0)

May 22, 2013

Sewing machines hum, irons hiss and scissors snip in a small room at the Wolfforth United Methodist Church each month as about a dozen women meet to sew dresses and shorts they will send to children in Kenya. The women are making the clothes for orphans in partnership with the Life for Children Ministries in [...]

Wolfforth Methodist women sew dresses for Kenyan orphans

Leaders pray for schools, families

More than 40 people gathered for a National Day of Prayer event held Thursday, May 2, in the Wolfforth Community Center by the Wolfforth Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture. Six community leaders, including four religious leaders, talked and prayed for a number of different institutions. The Rev. C.W. Faulkner, pastor of the First Baptist [...]

Lubbock Indoor Courts breaks ground east of Wolfforth

Just outside the Wolfforth city limits on Alcove Avenue, about 30 people met in a farm field Tuesday, April 16, to very gingerly turn up shovels of dirt in chilly winds. It might have only been a few shovels full of dirt, but to Tressa Adams, it represented the beginning of her dream being realized [...]

Frenship, Coronado teens head to Haiti on mission trip

When school first lets out for summer vacation, 11 students from Frenship High School and Coronado High School won’t be lounging by the pool. Instead, the students will be joined by five adults on a mission trip to Haiti through Wolfforth United Methodist Church. Taylor Thompson, the youth leader at WUMC, said the teens have [...]

South Plains SPCA celebrates one year

Founders and members of the South Plains Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals congregated last month at Belly’s, a restaurant on Texas Avenue in Lubbock, for a celebration of the group’s first anniversary. Christena Stephens, the director and vice president of South Plains SPCA, said a portion of the profits at Belly’s during a [...]

Fair draws residents interested in emergency preparation

Organizers estimated as many as 1,700 people attended the Lubbock Preparedness Fair on Saturday. Sterling Shumway, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Lubbock stake president, said the third annual preparedness fair attracted about 700 people last year. But looking around during the fair on Saturday at the Lubbock church building in front of [...]

Monterey Church of Christ celebrates 50 years

Monterey Church of Christ will celebrate its 50th anniversary in April. This is a picture of their building when it was under construction.

Monterey Church of Christ will celebrate its 50th anniversary April 7. Barry Stephens, senior minister at Monterey, said church members at Pioneer Park Church of Christ, which no longer exists, had a dream to plant another Church of Christ in Southwest Lubbock. The church was started after the first members bought 5 acres of land [...]

Parents, teachers, kids start spring break

Four parents at the Legacy Play Village on Monday had several ideas about how to spend their spring break. Stephanie and Josh Diehl were having a picnic with their three daughters at the park on the first day of the weeklong vacation. Stephanie, a stay-at-home mom, said she looks for cheaper ways to keep the [...]


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