Hundreds of Campbell County residents and visitors made a pilgrimage to the Wyoming Center at Cam-plex on Monday to listen to radio and television evangelists Joel Osteen and Victoria Osteen and their son, Jonathan.
It was billed as their latest “Night of Hope,” an evening of praise and worship.
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