White Wing Messenger February 2013

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Les Livres Pour Les Enfants (Books for Kids) is a virtual book drive that provided 1,200 books for the Haitian orphans.

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Bringing honor to the WORD by the printed word, the White Wing Messenger strives to inspire Christian thought and practice as it imparts the “good news� of the Gospel while serving the connectivity needs of our church community.

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Features 8 His-Story in

the Making Cathy Payne Global Missions Ministries Spotlight

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10 Missions

Spotlight

From around the world

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Milton Atkins

Extending your reach beyond the local church

Upcoming Mission Trips

Partnering with the world

Amanda Lawson

How can these children be left with no care?

Editorials

Columns 7

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SEVEN (For Young Readers)

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Sharing JESUS

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Vision 2020: Strengthening Local Churches for the Harvest

Maybe its your time

Making it Personal

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Annette Taylor

Connect people face to face

Sending

Getting Connected

3BOEBMM & )PXBSE General Overseer

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Arleta Lefler

Updates

MInistry Helps

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Departments 23

Children’s: Ten Things You Can Pray for Our Kids Wayne Pense

Messages: The Evidence of Change %F8BZOF )BNCZ Managing Editor

Gary Langley

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Facing Forward: Vision for the Local Church

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Worldview Culture–Announcement Virginia–Testimony Bulgaria–Church In His Presence

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2013 Calendar of Events Randall E. Howard General Overseer

January 31โ February 2

February 7โ 9

February 11โ 13

February 18โ 20

February 25โ 27

February 25โ 27

February 8โ March 3

March 13โ 16

March 14โ 16

March 22โ 24

March 25โ 28

March 30, 31

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CULTURE

Abortion Rates Drop Sharply

Attitudes & Addictions: Cell Phones

85 % 67 % 44 % 29 % 11 % 12 % 2012

How Can You Help Stop Abortions?

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WORLDVIEW (continued) How Can You Help Stop Abortions?

US Birth Rate Dips to Lowest on Record

Center

Christian Population Triples in Nepal

ANNOUNCEMENT

Tomlinson College to Hold Cleveland Reunion

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God Talks to Lincoln

QUOTABLE Match Up the Biblical Couples

“The name of the game right now is compromise.

Angus T. Jones, Two and a Half Men

According to the Bible, when that happens, we’re no longer standing for anything. We’re no longer on the side of the truth. the whole lump.” WWM

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Global Missions Coordinator

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CARIBBEAN AND ATLANTIC OCEAN ISLANDS

EUROPE, MIDLE EAST, & EASTERN EUROPE

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Russia

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CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO, & SPANISH CARIBBEAN

NORTH AMERICA

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ASIA/AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA

SOUTH AMERICA

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Nepal Hawaii

India

Myanmar

Japan Fiji

Malaysia

Singapore and East Asia

AFRICA South Korea

Conakry

Pakistan

Australia/Sri Lanka

Samoa/New Zealand 14

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Tanzania

Sierra Leone Report

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EXTENDING YOUR

I have served and the

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REACH BEYOND YOUR LOCAL CHURCH

Harvest Ministries

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Mission Trips

Haiti India Sierre Leone Peru Peru

Ted Cooper

Guatemala

Pete Tolbert

Peru

Jason Gainey

Guatemala

Tim McCaleb

Cuba Dominican Republic

Bill Vines

Cameroon Sierre Leone

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Make It Personal

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Taking the Violent By Force

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Update:

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Ten Things You Can Pray for Our Kids FOR HUMILITY:

FOR GODLY WISDOM:

FOR A DESIRE TO KNOW GOD:

FOR CHARACTER:

FOR DIRECTION:

FOR A SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE:

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member to win the lost of his or her community.

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Editor’s note:

PROGRESS or REDEMPTION? An excerpt from Ed Stetzer’s, Subversive Kingdom: Living as Agents of Gospel Transformation, speaks of the quest for human progress versus the Bible’s story of human redemption:

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Church Growth Myth

The Word

—Reinhard Bonnke

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OUTLINE

Sermon Title: Topic: Truth:

Text: Thought 1:

Thought 2:

Thought 3: Thesis:

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WORLDVIEW (continued) VIRGINIA

Raising Funds for Botswana in Roanoke

TESTIMONY

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BULGARIA

Reaching the Cities and Towns

CHURCH

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Ten Things You Can Pray for Our Kids

FOR GODLY RELATIONSHIPS:

FOR FAVOR:

FOR RESPECT TOWARD AUTHORITY:

FOR DISCERNMENT:

In His Presence Avery G. Montgomery

Florence Ables

W.M. “Tommy” Queener

Janice I. Williams

Jovis E. Wesley ________________________________

Ministers Carl E. Steele

Bobby R. Snow

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Samuel B. Moss

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