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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
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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
here in the
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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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EUROPE, MIDLE EAST, & EASTERN EUROPE
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CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO, & SPANISH CARIBBEAN
NORTH AMERICA
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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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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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