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Church to clean, disinfect two premises after pastor tests positive
Grace Assembly of God church was one of the first Covid-19 clusters to emerge last year, with 23 confirmed cases including the church s senior pastor. TNP FILE PHOTO
On-site kindergartens will stay open as pastor had no contact with pre-schools
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Grace Assembly of God church is making arrangements for its two premises to be cleaned and disinfected after a pastor tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday.
A spokesman said that even though the church has not received a notification from the Ministry of Health (MOH) to do so, it will conduct cleaning and disinfection as a precautionary measure.
Outrage as headstones are ripped from ground and pushed over and flowers thrown about at graveyard
The incident has left a community in shock and the local reverend asking: Why would anyone do this?
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A number of headstones have been vandalised at a church in Carmarthenshire. (Image: Parish of Gorslas, Crosshands, Llanedi, Tycroes and Saron)
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When Charlotte Brontë sat down to write
Jane Eyre, she didn’t yet know she was writing a major work of English literature. The gothic novel about a governess’s romance with the brooding Mr. Rochester was an instant classic in its time and is still much loved today. After all, who can resist a tale featuring a mysterious woman locked in an attic?
1. Like Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë worked as a governess.
Jane Eyre was a provincial girl hired to work as a governess among strangers. So was Charlotte Brontë. In 1839, the wealthy Sidgwick family employed Brontë to live in their country estate and educate their children. She hated the job, writing, “I had charge given me of a set of pampered, spoilt, turbulent children, whom I was expected constantly to amuse, as well as to instruct.” She became depressed and withdrawn, causing Mrs. Sidgwick to scold her.
Roy Exum: Easter Morning, 2021 Sunday, April 4, 2021 - by Roy Exum
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Ten years ago on an Easter Sunday like this one, the Rev. Todd B. Jones stood in the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church in Nashville and told of the shortest Easter sermon ever given. It is so short it is easily memorized and impossible to forget. As Christians the world over celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus today, allow me to give my space on this most meaningful Holy Day of the year to the saintly Mary Magdalene, who albeit unknowingly, encompassed all of our Christian belief into just five words. Yes. Five. Words.
Born March 30, 1901, Buford Alvin Townsend was a son of Reverend Wilson E. Townsend and Margaret M. Dixon. His father died at age 30 when Buford was five months old, leaving his 25-year-old mother to raise him and his two older brothers. They resided on a farm in the East Fork community and he received his early education in one-room rural schools, before he attended high school at Smoky Mountain Academy.
Townsend always worked to pay his expenses while attending high school. He obtained a teaching certificate and taught his first class when he was 17. Later, Townsend enrolled in two-year accredited college courses at Murphy College. While attending Murphy College, he taught Latin and math to help cover some of his expenses.