Month: July 2019

Remembrance: 
Growing up with the Space Race, then recording Apollo 11 live on my tape recorder (now on YouTube) 
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(Click here to go to my Apollo 11 YouTube channel.) I was 6-1/2 years old on that evening in October 1957, when my parents, my sister, and I went out into our side yard and looked up to view the USSR’s Sputnik I shooting across the night sky. The “Space Race” was on! Growing up Read more . . .

Baptists: 
A Word from Bill Jones, Weekly Baptist Roundup, 7/20/2019: Fresh out of high school, recording Apollo 11 with my graduation present 
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Fifty years ago, I was fresh out of high school in Missouri, having graduated in June from Oak Park High School in the North Kansas City school district. For my graduation, Mother and Daddy gave me a reel-to-reel tape recorder. In July, the Apollo 11 astronauts went to the Moon, and I put my brand-new Read more . . .

Baptists: 
Remembering our first visit to Wilshire Baptist Church on July 4th 15 years ago 
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Fifteen years ago today – Sunday, July 4, 2004 – Joanna and I visited Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas for the first time. I had met George Mason, Wilshire’s pastor, and heard him speak two months earlier in San Antonio at the annual conference of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission – then led by my dear friend Read more . . .