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Editor’s note: The following COVID-19-related announcements are from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Office, Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Office or where otherwise indicated for May 5-7. Full press releases are available at the respective websites.

This is the fifth article in a series about what various churches and pastors are doing to stay connected and involved in their communities and to encourage their church families.

Tomorrow, Sunday May 10, is Mother’s Day. Thursday, May 14, would have been my mother’s 88th birthday. She died of colon cancer back on July 11, 2012. I stayed with her the last eight days and nights of her life around the clock in her hospice room at the Adams County Hospital, not far from mom’s home in Peebles, Ohio. An excerpt from the daily journal I wrote during those eight days is later in this article. I talked to her pastor and his wife this past week. First time I had spoken with them since mom’s funeral. Pastor Bill Bowman and his wife, Linda, were such a wonderful pastor and wife couple to my mom. She loved them and they loved her.