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Speakers Announced for 2018 Pastor’s Day at the Capitol

Feb 2, 2018Jerry CoxArkansas Pastors NetworkArkansas Pastors Network, Pastors, Pastors Day at the Capitol

We are excited to host Pastor’s Day at the Capitol 2018 on Thursday, February 15, from 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM at the State Capitol Building in downtown Little Rock.

This free, nonpartisan event is open to all pastors, chaplains, church leaders, and their spouses.

Come hear from Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, Pastor Gary Bell of Pine Bluff First Assembly, and Arkansas Representative Fred Allen (D — District 30).

This will be a time to focus on worshiping God, ministering to those in authority, fostering better relationships between you and your legislators, practicing good citizenship, and learning how your congregation can do the same.

You can register for Pastor’s Day at the Capitol for free by clicking here.

If you have any questions, please contact Charisse Dean at 501-375-7000 or charisse@familycouncil.org.

Come and be encouraged, empowered, inspired, and informed!

We’re Still Searching for the Couple Who’s Been Married the Longest

Jan 30, 2018Jerry CoxMarriageLongest Married Couple, Marriage

In February we plan to hold a reception at the Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock to honor the couple in Arkansas who has been married the longest. We also will recognize the nine other couples who have been married almost as long.

At this point, all the couples who are in the running for Arkansas’ Longest-Married Couple have been married more than 72 years. That’s truly amazing!

It’s not every day you meet a husband and wife who have been together more than 70 years, but when you do, there is something very special about it.

If you know a couple who has been married more than 72 years, I hope you will nominate them for Arkansas’ Longest-Married Couple by emailing Ken Yang at ken@familycouncil.org or calling the Family Council office at (501) 375-7000.

Photo Credit: By Jeff Belmonte from Cuiabá, Brazil (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

U.S. Senate Rejects Pro-Life Legislation

Jan 30, 2018Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

Yesterday the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill banning most abortions after the fifth month of pregnancy.

The bill is similar to one passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last fall and a law Arkansas passed in 2013.

Arkansas’ U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton both co-sponsored this good bill and supported it yesterday.

Medical science shows unborn babies feel the pain of abortion, especially after the twentieth week of pregnancy. That’s one reason many states — as well as most countries on earth — have passed laws prohibiting late-term abortions. In fact, the United States is one of just seven countries that allows abortion after the fifth month of pregnancy.

In 2000, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kennedy described the abortion process, writing, “The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. . . . The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.”

Abortion is a horrific procedure that takes the lives of unborn children.

I hope you will thank Sens. Boozman and Cotton for supporting the senate bill to ban abortion after the twentieth week of pregnancy. Links to their contact information are below.

U.S. SENATOR JOHN BOOZMAN (R – AR)

Click Here to Email U.S. Senator Boozman

U.S. SENATOR TOM COTTON (R – AR)

Click Here to Email U.S. Senator Cotton