Newly assigned pastors of the United Methodist Church’s North Alabama Conference will preach their first sermons in new pulpits on Sunday. The Rev. Mark Williams has been assigned to Christ Central Church in Rainbow City and his background is unique.
First, he joined the U.S. Army in 1981 at the age of 20 and served for six years, mostly with the 101st then for a while as an infantry non-commissioned officer at the former Fort McClellan at nearby Anniston. “I thank God for all peacetime service,” he said.
When his enlistment ended, Williams worked at the Victoria Inn (now known as The Finial) in Anniston and held a few other short-term jobs. Then in 1989, his life took a different turn as he begam a career as a dance teacher with Fred Astaire Studios in Huntsville.
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Forget the North-South divide – it s all about East versus West now
Rising evidence of an east-west divide is shaking up the property market. Could Norfolk be the new Cornwall? And Essex the new Oxfordshire?
26 June 2021 • 6:00am
Countless Londoners are clamouring for houses in the east and west of the UK, and it’s easy to see why
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It didn’t surprise me when Karl Manning, head of residential sales at Savills Chelmsford, told me that sales in Essex in the first quarter of this year were up 167 per cent compared with last year.
Combine this with a lack of available properties, then add countless Londoners who are clamouring for houses to the mix and it’s easy to see why the roads and schools out in the east are slowly filling up.
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