Tuesday, December 8, 2020

In the News ... "Ministers gauge pandemic’s damages"

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• Weakness, financial harm may be worse than fear of death

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
Odessa American


ODESSA, TEXAS - The COVID-19 onslaught has hit Odessa churches hard, posing threats to their members not only of serious illness or death but also of financial catastrophe.

The pandemic’s duration has also been psychologically wearing as week after week and month after month the likelihood of infection seemed to increase.

The Revs. Mike Atkins, Jimmy Braswell and Tim Halstead say the crisis initially seemed somewhat distant, but it has grown graver lately as church and family members fell prey ...

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