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Money pours in for Baptist center on Capitol Hill: Center for Religious Liberty

A Texas Baptist family’s spontaneous challenge to jump-start a Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty campaign to buy and renovate a house on Capitol Hill for its own center in Washington netted the organization nearly $1.2 million in just a couple of weeks.

J. Brent Walker, executive director of the group, which rents space from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, announced in a July 24 e-mail to supporters that a matching-funds challenge from the Baugh family of San Antonio has been wildly successful.