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SUMMARY:2026 Choices Fundraising Banquet
DESCRIPTION:The 2026 Choices Banquet will be held on Tuesday\, October 13th at 6:00pm!\n\nWe'll have dinner\, inspiring stories\, ministry updates\, an uplifting talk from guest speaker\, Lee Strobel\, and silent & live auctions!\n\n\n\nOnly a few tables still available!\n\n\n\nOur very special featured speaker this year will be Lee Strobel. \n\nAtheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel\, the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune\, is a New York Times best-selling author of more than forty books and curricula that have sold fourteen million copies in total. He currently serves as Founding Director of the Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics at Colorado Christian University. Lee has been described in the Washington Post as "one of the evangelical community's most popular apologists." He was educated at the University of Missouri (Bachelor of Journalism degree) and Yale Law School (Master of Studies in Law degree). He was a journalist for fourteen years at The Chicago Tribune and other newspapers\, winning Illinois' highest honors for both investigative reporting and public service journalism from United Press International.\n\n\n\nAfter probing the evidence for Jesus for nearly two years\, Lee became a Christian in 1981. He subsequently became a teaching pastor at three of America's largest churches and hosted the weekly national network TV program Faith Under Fire. In addition\, he taught First Amendment law at Roosevelt University and was Professor of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University. In 2017\, Lee's spiritual journey was depicted in an award-winning motion picture\, The Case for Christ\, which showed in theaters around the world. The movie was on Netflix for three years.\n\n\n\nLee won national awards for his books The Case for Christ\, The Case for Faith\, The Case for a Creator\, and The Case for Grace. His latest books are The Case for Miracles and The Case for Heaven.A documentary based on The Case for Heaven was shown on movie theaters nationwide in 2022.\n\n\n\nLee and Leslie have been married for fifty years. Their daughter\, Alison\, is a novelist and homeschooling expert\, and their son\, Kyle\, earned a doctorate in theology and is a professor of spiritual theology at the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<div>\n<div style="text-align:center">\n<p><span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:tahoma\;"><strong><span style="color:rgb(0\, 0\, 0)">The 2026 <a href="https://www.stephenvilletexas.org/list/member/choices-clinic-life-resource-center-102">Choices</a> Banquet will be held on Tuesday\,&nbsp\;</span><span style="color:rgb(0\, 0\, 0)">October 13</span><sup>th</sup></strong><span style="color:rgb(0\, 0\, 0)"><strong> at 6:00pm!</strong><br />\nWe&rsquo\;ll have dinner\, inspiring stories\, ministry updates\, an uplifting talk from guest speaker\, Lee Strobel\, and silent &amp\; live auctions!<br />\n<br />\n<em>Only a few tables still available!</em></span></span><br />\n<br />\n<strong>Our very special featured speaker this year will be Lee Strobel.&nbsp\;</strong></span><br />\nAtheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel\, the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune\, is a New York Times best-selling author of more than forty books and curricula that have sold fourteen million copies in total. He currently serves as Founding Director of the Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics at Colorado Christian University. Lee has been described in the Washington Post as &ldquo\;one of the evangelical community&rsquo\;s most popular apologists.&rdquo\; He was educated at the University of Missouri (Bachelor of Journalism degree) and Yale Law School (Master of Studies in Law degree). He was a journalist for fourteen years at The Chicago Tribune and other newspapers\, winning Illinois&rsquo\; highest honors for both investigative reporting and public service journalism from United Press International.<br />\n<br />\nAfter probing the evidence for Jesus for nearly two years\, Lee became a Christian in 1981. He subsequently became a teaching pastor at three of America&rsquo\;s largest churches and hosted the weekly national network TV program Faith Under Fire. In addition\, he taught First Amendment law at Roosevelt University and was Professor of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University. In 2017\, Lee&rsquo\;s spiritual journey was depicted in an award-winning motion picture\, The Case for Christ\, which showed in theaters around the world. The movie was on Netflix for three years.<br />\n<br />\nLee won national awards for his books The Case for Christ\, The Case for Faith\, The Case for a Creator\, and The Case for Grace. His latest books are The Case for Miracles and The Case for Heaven.A documentary based on The Case for Heaven was shown on movie theaters nationwide in 2022.<br />\n<br />\nLee and Leslie have been married for fifty years. Their daughter\, Alison\, is a novelist and homeschooling expert\, and their son\, Kyle\, earned a doctorate in theology and is a professor of spiritual theology at the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.</p>\n\n<p style="font-family: &quot\;Open Sans&quot\;\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; box-sizing: border-box\; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent\;">&nbsp\;</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n
LOCATION:Cowboy Church of Erath County 4945 US Hwy. 67
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