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The Waco Shepherd's Heart Podcast

The Shepherd's Heart Food Pantry and The Waco Community

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Good news is best told from a first-person perspective. So many great stories don’t get told to the right audience. We want Wacoans to hear the great stories that we hear, told by the pillars in our community who care about meeting needs in the community here in Waco Texas.
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The Waconia Pulse

The Smothers Falk Realty Group

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A community-based podcast presented by the Smothers and Falk Realty Group highlighting all things Waconia, MN, and the surrounding area. The Smothers and Falk Realty Group consists of licensed real estate agents in the state of Minnesota with the brokerage RE/MAX Advantage Plus. You can find them online at smothersfalk.com. If you have a Waconia or real estate related question or comment that you would like included on this podcast, please call 612-352-9177.
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Here at the Waco Police Department, we work daily to Build Relationships, Engage the Community, and Actively work to keep you safe because Together we can create a thriving community. Our new podcast Waco PD on the BEAT is here for YOU to learn a lot more about the officers that are keeping you safe, how the police department works, and what crime increases and decreases we’re seeing in your community.
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Numerous expressions exist about how much the devil loves to take advantage of the idle hands and minds of mortals. But while some people find trouble in their free time, or simply waste it, others use it in positive ways. Frank Curre of Waco ended up with some downtime in June of 1945, when the escort carrier he was serving on was sent to the dock…
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The world around us is roaring and chaotic. The natural world and nations of the world appear out of control. Psalm 46 tells us this is not new. Do you want to know how to have deep peace and serenity in a world that doesn’t provide either of those? Psalm 46 provides the key to finding and knowing the refuge that can only come from knowing God.…
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As the war in Europe was winding down in the spring of 1945, exhausted troops probably thought they were immune to being shocked. But knowledge of the atrocities committed in Nazi concentration camps was on the horizon. Nothing could have prepared them for that. Hank Josephs of Corpus Christi served in Intelligence & Reconnaissance during the war a…
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How are the faithful to respond in moments of pain, anguish, and despair? In a fallen world, these times come and go for all of us. Before they do, how can we train our hearts to respond? In the midst of his own incredible turmoil, King David wrote Psalm 27, which serves us as a training of the heart to respond to those painful moments when the goo…
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During cold weather, most people want to huddle inside around heat sources, but some jobs force people to brave the elements. Waco businessman and historian Roger Conger delivered groceries for J. C. Crippen & Sons as a teenager in the 1920s. He recalls a winter delivery to Waco High English teacher Marie Leslie that can only be described as a lear…
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Many memories from our youth are intertwined with those of school, the place where we were making friends and developing interests. Waco native Helen Geltemeyer shares a treasured memory from her schooldays: "My earliest memories of Bell's Hill is going to school, walking every morning and with our dog, Tex, following my sister and I and maybe my b…
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Pawnbroking—or lending money on portable security—is one of the world's oldest professions. It can be traced back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire in the West and to China three thousand years ago in the East. Hank Josephs of Corpus Christi remembers he got the idea to change his family's dry goods store into a pawn shop during WWII: "Our ser…
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Some of the clearest memories from our youth usually include times we got in trouble. Victor Newman of Waco grew up amidst cowboys in West Texas. In 1923, at the age of ten, he came to live at the recently opened Waco State Home. Newman explains how the home reacted to his cowboy ways: "Well, every time I turned around, well, somebody would grab me…
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Bullies are people who try to harm or intimidate others who they perceive as weaker. It starts in childhood. Maggie Langham Washington moved to Waco in the fifth grade and remembers how she was an easy target for bullies: "If you were a minister's child that's new in a school, you saw hard time, a real hard time because kids would do things to you …
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Swimming is a favorite summer activity in Texas, as it provides respite from sweltering temperatures. Charles Armstrong grew up in the Bell's Hill area of Waco and describes where he and other boys would go to cool off: "And from Twenty-ninth Street over where the Baylor stadium is now, there was a fence across there, and it wasn't anything but mes…
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An annual tradition for many students and teachers is looking for summer employment. During the 1940s, these jobs were becoming easier to find, with a recovering American economy and the war overseas. Jane Martin, former missionary in East Africa, lists a few of the summer jobs that she held in the 1940s to pay her way through Mars Hill College in …
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Originally Aired 06/2019 In this episode In one afternoon, 114 people lost their lives and Downtown Waco’s skyline was forever changed. Eric Ames, Assistant Director for Marketing & Communication for the Baylor University Libraries and ITS, walks us through the day the 1953 tornado touched down. We talk about the damage the storm caused, stories of…
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Since its dedication in 1910, Waco's Cameron Park has grown from 125 to more than 400 acres, with land gifts from the Cameron family, and has provided children with countless hours of exercise and enjoyment. Charlie Turner of Hewitt recalls playing in the park as a young boy in the 1950s and 60s: "There were some little wading pools we would go pla…
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Among southern states, Texas was a leader in the desegregation of public education. In 1964, Texas accounted for approximately 60 percent of integrated school districts in the South. Robert Lewis Gilbert was the first black teacher to be hired in a white school in Waco and describes taking on that position: "Everybody was telling me before I went, …
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