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By Corey Paul, Reporter
Odessa American
MIDLAND/ODESSA, TEXAS - Times were good when First Baptist Church’s oilfield ministry began last October. It was the Permian Basin International Oil Show, and a group of Christians joined to distribute some 7,000 Bibles tailored specifically to oil men from nearby the event.
An oil price slide during the following months would hammer the industry, and First Baptist “boom pastor” Jesse Gore — to use his own title for himself — began arranging meetings at local businesses to talk about safety and God.
In doing so, he worked with Oilfield Christian Fellowship, believers from various churches in Midland and Odessa in a local chapter of a national group ...
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