May 2022

Brent Thomason was recently promoted to Dean of the Graduate School of Ministry at Dallas Baptist University, Dallas, Texas. The Graduate School of Ministry provides master’s level educational training for students who sense God’s call to full-time or bi-vocational ministry. Offering nine degrees, the School of Ministry prepares students to become pastors, worship leaders, missionaries, military chaplains, children’s ministers, and more.

Choose joy, adopt Joy! Joy is ready to be YOUR whole world and show you why shelter dogs are the best! Joy is an approximately 1 year old, spayed Heeler-ish mix, weighing 30 pounds; she’s not too big and not too small! She came to us as a “stray found” that no one ever came looking for, although we know she belonged to someone, she was spayed upon arrival…. She’s a delight, a sweetheart, a total love bug! Joy loves the company of other dogs, she sits for treats and cats don’t seem to be too interesting, although our methods of testing are minimal for the safety of both. Joy is well mannered and obedient, proving to be the epitome of best friend material! She definitely loves her humans. Joy has a life saving adoption fee of $70. This fee covers her initial vaccines, rabies vaccine, wellness exam, spay and heartworm antigen test. Our hours of operation are 10-4, Monday-Saturday. Please stop by 321 Carol Brown Blvd., give us a call at 580-223-7070 or visit our website at www.ShelterLuv.com/matchme/adopt/ARD-A-5137 to fill out an application!

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Thousands of firefighters battled destructive wildfires in the Southwest as more residents prepared to evacuate Friday into the weekend in northern New Mexico where strong winds and dangerously dry conditions have made the blazes hard to contain.

For the first time since 2019, the halls of the Oklahoma State Capitol were filled green on April 12 as more than 100 4-H’ers from across the state, as well as Langston University, took part in the 23rd annual State 4-H Day at the Capitol.

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — A week ago, the boat carrying Bilal Dandashi his relatives and dozens of others hoping to escape Lebanon and reach Europe sank in the Mediterranean. Dandashi still doesn’t know if his wife and children are alive or dead.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned again that the North could preemptively use its nuclear weapons if threatened, as he praised his top army officials for a massive military parade in the capital, Pyongyang, this week.

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces fought Saturday to hold off a Russian advance in their country’s south and east, where the Kremlin is seeking to capture the industrial Donbas region and Western military analysts said Moscow’s offensive was going much slower than planned.