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A Baptist bump? Downtown Dallas gears up for country’s largest religion conference

Late Wednesday morning was slow outside the downtown Omni Hotel, and Marvin Fernandez, an affable young member of the downtown property’s valet crew, stood perched outside the lobby chatting with his coworkers, waiting to park cars that weren’t coming. His eyes lit up when a Dallas Morning News reporter mentioned the upcoming Southern Baptist Convention, an event that will draw thousands of …