GOD & TEXAS: Marcelina Texas
The town is gone but the church is still there. Every Sunday morning the Marcelina Baptist Church still offers Sunday School and Worship....
GOD & TEXAS: Salvation Army
In the mid-1880’s, the streets of Calcutta, India, offered much intrigue for visiting sailors. While the food and shopping were...
GOD and TEXAS: Breadline Banker
He was known for his Christianity, hospitality, and charity to the poor and orphans. This is part of the inscription on the historical...
GOD & TEXAS: Panna Maria
In 1824, Leopold was born in Prussia, now Poland. His father supported the family of 10 children as an innkeeper and miller. They lived...
GOD & TEXAS: Neglected Treasure!
On Sunday mornings, when the two bells rang at Sacred Heart church, it was the custom of the children to pick fresh flowers on their way...
GOD & TEXAS: The Mother of Houston, Texas
John and Augustus Allen were super-salesmen. After they founded the swampy city of Houston in 1836, they advertised land for sale that...
GOD & TEXAS: Faith Trail
Kilroy was here! American troops in World War II scratched this phrase on buildings, bridges, and captured enemy armaments. The phrase...
GOD & TEXAS: GREED!
Buffalo Hump had a diabolical vision. The year was 1840, and the Comancheria (Comanche land) was being invaded by hordes of settlers from...
GOD & TEXAS: Alligator Circuit
The weather is so bad that it’s only fit for crows and Methodist preachers! This colloquial saying from the 1850s described the zealous...
GOD & TEXAS: Honeymoon in Texas
As the Indians plundered the Sparks Settlement in 1835, “Chick” camouflaged her brood in the thick underbrush at the foot of a hill...
