In the News ... "Apostle Philip ministered to all"

Painting by Peter Paul Rubens

• Native of Bethsaida remembered as ‘a man ahead of his time’

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - The Apostle Philip was a forerunner of the much more famous Apostle Paul because he went to “outsiders” who would ordinarily not have been invited and drew them to Jesus Christ, ministers say.

Ministers Kevin Fox, Hector Aguilar and Andy Hill say Philip was from Bethsaida, the same Galilean village as the brothers Peter and Andrew, and like them and the other apostles he had no special qualifications ...

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