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==Career==

==Career==

During his forty-seven years at First Baptist Dallas, membership ballooned from 715 to nearly 8,000, with total contribution exceeding $6 million. Three times growth required that the church be rebuilt.<ref name=papers/> The church for a time was the largest in the world.<ref name=handbook/>

During his forty-seven years at First Baptist Dallas, membership ballooned from 715 to nearly 8,000, with total contributions exceeding $6 million. Three times growth required that the church be rebuilt.<ref name=papers/> The church for a time was the largest in the world.<ref name=handbook/>

During [[World War I]], [[U.S. President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] dispatched Truett and nineteen other pastors to preach for six months to the Allied forces fighting the Central Powers.<ref name=papers/> Before Wilson's assignment, Truett had preached during the war at the noon hour at the Palace Theater in downtown Dallas for the convenience of workers, many of whom attended his sermons regardless of denomination.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/truett-george-washington|title=Truett, George Washington|publisher=Ncpedia.org|date=1996|author=Henry S. Strope|accessdate=March 20, 2018}}</ref> For thirty-seven years, Truett preached for a month each summer to cowboys working the [[cattle]] drives in the Davis Mountains of West Texas.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ftr16|title=Truett, George Washington|publisher=''The Handbook of Texas'' online|accessdate=March 20, 2018}}</ref>

During [[World War I]], [[U.S. President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] dispatched Truett and nineteen other pastors to preach for six months to the Allied forces fighting the Central Powers.<ref name=papers/> Before Wilson's assignment, Truett had preached during the war at the noon hour at the Palace Theater in downtown Dallas for the convenience of workers, many of whom attended his sermons regardless of denomination.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/truett-george-washington|title=Truett, George Washington|publisher=Ncpedia.org|date=1996|author=Henry S. Strope|accessdate=March 20, 2018}}</ref> For thirty-seven years, Truett preached for a month each summer to cowboys working the [[cattle]] drives in the Davis Mountains of West Texas.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ftr16|title=Truett, George Washington|publisher=''The Handbook of Texas'' online|accessdate=March 20, 2018}}</ref>