Houston Area Pastor Council leaders and pastors F.N. Williams Sr., F. N. Williams II, Willie Davis (now At Large City Council Pos. 2), Hernan Castano, and Dave Welch met with Houston Mayor John Whitmire as part of the launch of an exciting new phase for church/city relationship in the fourth largest city in America!
When disaster strikes, the first place many people go is to a church. In Sunnyside, that’s exactly what hundreds did in the days after Hurricane Beryl left well over two million Houstonians in the dark amid triple-digit heat index temperatures. At the First Missionary Baptist Church in Sunnyside, they were welcomed with open arms. However, it comes at a cost for the congregation ...
Andy Wine thinks most children can understand the Golden Rule ... it’s common sense, Wine said. That’s why the 43-year-old parent of two, who is an atheist, finds it appalling that the Texas Education Agency wants to incentivize public schools to teach the Golden Rule as a core value in the Bible ...
The controversial sculpture “Witness” by Shahzia Sikander, which is on display at the Cullen Family Plaza at the University of Houston (UH), was beheaded during Hurricane Beryl last week ...
On Sunday morning, Gregg Matte, senior pastor at Houston's First Baptist near Memorial Park, said he returned from sabbatical a week early because he believed the megachurch's "sheep and the shepherd needed to be together" in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl ...
The concept of safety is often a topic of conversation here in the state’s most populous city as we grapple with an array of public policy proposals to address flooding, traffic dangers, and crime. The latter was again thrust to the forefront last month with news of the brutal murder of ...
A nurse at the nation’s largest children’s hospital says doctors pressured parents to give their kids hormone therapy and other transgender medicine interventions — warning that their children might kill themselves if they held off on treatments ...
A Houston doctor has been indicted for obtaining the records of pediatric patients at Texas Children's Hospital who were not under his care and without authorization, according to U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani ...
Thank you Dave Welch and the Texas Pastor Council team for helping me solve an issue in just two weeks that I’ve been dealing with for five months. I have been serving as a pastor in Beaumont TX since 1998. Jefferson Central Appraisal District decided in 2024 to overstep their boundaries by removing two of the church parsonage’s off of tax exemption after being exempt since 2006. After writing a letter, completing their questionnaire, as well as ...
On Tuesday, June 11, the Amarillo City Council voted 4 to 1 to reject the citizen-initiated “Sanctuary City for the Unborn” ordinance, both in its amended and original forms. Council Member Don Tipps was the only member to vote against rejecting the ordinance ...
