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We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.
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IN THIS ISSUE!:
- PRAYER < A Prayer for Tenacity!
- FROM THE BISHOP< Quit Quitting God!
- FEATURE ARTICLE < The False Reality of Social Media
- LEADERSHIP < 5 ways to Promote Your Church on A Tiny Budget
- FBC < Commendable Sacrifice: Endurance not Popularity
- FEATURED MISSIONARIES < Passion For His Presence / Cultivate Honduras
- LINKS TO YOUR MONTHLY REPORT form
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A Prayer For Tenacity
Giving up is not an option.
Galatians 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Becoming impatient with God’s timing is also not an option. If you think about the fact that Abraham couldn’t wait for the Lord’s promised son, Isaac, and instead slept with his maid which resulted in major consequences for his act of disobedience, this should give you the motivation to wait for the Lord’s complete fulfillment of the prophetic word He gave you.
Reminding yourself of His promise by reading the notes you wrote based on Day 6 will give you a clear picture of the end result.
You can continue to pray through the process and ask Him to give you the next step to fulfilling it. If a part of what He told you requires you doing something then you need to follow through with that.
Hebrews 10:36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
James 5:11 As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
You will have to hold on, keep the faith and know that if the Lord spoke that word to you it certainly will come to pass.
Here is a prayer for your Determination, Tenacity and Strength
Dear Lord,
I thank You for Your promises and I know that You are not a man that You should lie nor the son of a man that You need to repent for what you have told me (Numbers 23:19). I pray a double portion of tenacity, determination, patience and strength to wait for all the things that you’ve shown me to come to pass. May my waiting be active and not passive so that I may be doing the things that you require of me to bring this prophecy into fulfillment. Impart to me a spirit of joy so that I can always wait with hope and without grumbling. I know that you are able to do exceedingly abundantly more than I could ever ask, think, imagine, dream or hope for (Ephesians 3:20) and I pray that your grace and peace will guard my heart and mind as I wait for your perfect timing, In Jesus Name. Amen
Galatians 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Becoming impatient with God’s timing is also not an option. If you think about the fact that Abraham couldn’t wait for the Lord’s promised son, Isaac, and instead slept with his maid which resulted in major consequences for his act of disobedience, this should give you the motivation to wait for the Lord’s complete fulfillment of the prophetic word He gave you.
Reminding yourself of His promise by reading the notes you wrote based on Day 6 will give you a clear picture of the end result.
You can continue to pray through the process and ask Him to give you the next step to fulfilling it. If a part of what He told you requires you doing something then you need to follow through with that.
Hebrews 10:36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
James 5:11 As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
You will have to hold on, keep the faith and know that if the Lord spoke that word to you it certainly will come to pass.
Here is a prayer for your Determination, Tenacity and Strength
Dear Lord,
I thank You for Your promises and I know that You are not a man that You should lie nor the son of a man that You need to repent for what you have told me (Numbers 23:19). I pray a double portion of tenacity, determination, patience and strength to wait for all the things that you’ve shown me to come to pass. May my waiting be active and not passive so that I may be doing the things that you require of me to bring this prophecy into fulfillment. Impart to me a spirit of joy so that I can always wait with hope and without grumbling. I know that you are able to do exceedingly abundantly more than I could ever ask, think, imagine, dream or hope for (Ephesians 3:20) and I pray that your grace and peace will guard my heart and mind as I wait for your perfect timing, In Jesus Name. Amen
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Perhaps it's Time to Quit Quitting God!
At some point along this journey of growing deep spiritual roots, we’re bound to face the “hard.” Some hard feels like the kind of “wearing down of the saints,” as Watchmen Nee describes in his book on prayer. It’s the little things like the reading on the scales, broken mowers and leaky tubs, dented cars and lost eyeglasses that can get the best of us.
But there is the other kind of hard that feels like full-blown assault on your spiritual, emotional, and physical stability. The kind of hard when you hear of a tragedy or experience the loss of a loved one. Face a cancer diagnosis. Feeling more physical pain than in younger days, rebounding off an inversion in a relationship. Discover the pay cut is coming your way, too.
Why You Need to Quit Quitting God
When I’ve faced that kind of hard, I’ve threatened that I’m going to “quit God.” Once I even tried. There I sat, on the living room, tears streaming as hard I had ever done, yelling at God for for how my life had turned upside down. Sitting with a S&W 38 in my lap being what I felt, in my mind was a broken man.
But as those words escaped the rawest parts of my wounded heart, I realized that you can’t yell at someone you don’t believe in.
You can’t quit the conversation and still be talking.
And so I realized at that moment that I couldn’t quit God because He God refused to quit me.
MY FAITH STRUGGLE AND PAIN DIDN’T CHANGE HIS FAITHFULNESS.
For that, I am so grateful.
And so I’ve quit quitting God.
PERHAPS YOU NEED TO QUIT QUITTING GOD TOO.
Because why should we try to do life without the God of the Universe backing us up, being our strength, and filling us with hope as we journey to eternity?
Hard is what we will always find this side of heaven, so why do hard alone?
So will you join me on this side of quitting? The side in which you keep on believing even when you don’t get what God is allowing to happening in the hard parts of life? (Always remember, His ways are not our ways.)
The place in which we sit in the uncomfortable of our emotions without rushing to find an answer. When we wake up confused but still determine to read the Word. When we choose to believe even when what God is doing or allowing doesn’t make sense in light of His promises and commands. Where we run TOWARD the throne.
What if you were so enveloped in truth that your emotions couldn't undermine your faith?
IN QUITTING OUR QUITTING OF GOD, WE REFUSE TO GIVE UP ETERNAL HOPE WHILE EMBRACING LIFE IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING.
That kind of hope isn’t the one you muster up from deep within your soul. It isn’t based on circumstances or feelings. It’s a shear faith kind of hope that comes from believing the promises of eternity.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen,
since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV
REMEMBER:
This isn’t our forever home.
This is not what we were made for.
This is temporary.
This is broken.
This is yet to see the fullness of God’s redemption.
This is yet to experience His glory.
This really isn’t our true reality!
It’s this eternal perspective that takes the pressure off of what we expect from life on this earth and God Himself.
Maybe it’s a perspective you need to cultivate too?
When the heavy and hard come your way, don’t you want to be so enveloped in truth that your emotions won’t undermine your faith?
It will only come from steeping yourself in prayer and the Word today and daily. God will meet you there. He will show you Himself. And when the hard comes, His Word will be your guide by the power and work of the Holy Spirit within you.
That, my friend, is really the only way to be equipped for the hard and quit quitting God. Your tru freedom only comes when surrendered to God in all circumstance.
Be Restored and Empowered!,
Bishop Boer
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The False Reality of Social Media
Elizabeth Wann
We live in a world of false realities. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest all offer an alternate view of who we are as individuals. We can tweet spiritual tweets and show off our immaculate houses or perfectly cooked food on Instagram. We can either judge or feel judged as we scan our Facebook timelines, and Pinterest shows us how far we fall from perfection.
Even posting “real photos” like a messy room or a not so flattering selfie are a far cry from showing the multifaceted and emotional life of a human being. We’ll never give a true taste of our imperfections from a bad hair day or unfolded laundry.
The “reality” photos and statuses published are just as much a mask as the perfect happy posts we broadcast. Neither show our cyber friends who we really are. We are safe from vulnerability and risk of failure, and have complete control of the image we portray of ourselves.
A Humble BalanceIn reality, people experience us and feel affected by us, and their experiences of us might be vastly different from what we would like to convey about ourselves. The people around us are like mirrors bouncing back the real image of ourselves to us.
What would our spouse say about us if he or she were off the iPhone? How would our children say we treat them if their mouths could talk in our Instagram photos? What would the telemarketer and saleslady Tweet about us? Would our flesh and blood neighbors say we are as good as social media says we are? Whether on social media or in real life, we tend to seesaw back and forth between false realities of ourselves. We either put on the mask of thinking too much or too little of ourselves. And in turn we portray this image to others.
On the low end of the seesaw we view ourselves as constant failures, we condemn ourselves, feel depressed about our lives and are ashamed of who we are. The high end of the seesaw is boastful arrogance, self-righteousness, self-sufficiency and selfish ambition. Trying to correct one side with the other side is self-defeating, because both sides are rooted in pride and self-focus.
Humility comes in embracing the realityof the middle ground. Only when we embrace the true reality of ourselves in Christ will we achieve a humble balance. Humility is best described as a balancing of reality. Let’s stop the extreme high and low of the seesaw and meet Christ in the middle.
The Grace of God in YouBefore social media, the apostle Paul was well acquainted with the humble reality of himself. He found his middle ground in the grace of God through Christ. In 1 Corinthians 15:9–10 Paul says,
“For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.”
Paul didn’t think less of himself for his past failures nor did he condemn himself for being a horrible person and then get depressed. But he didn’t self-correct himself by going to the other end of the seesaw by thinking too highly of himself. Instead, Paul saw his entire life through the lens of grace.
It was grace that stopped his persecuting and it was grace that made him an apostle. Grace working through him made him work hard and grace made him who he was. He could accept who he was—strengths and weaknesses, past, present and future—through the reality of God’s grace through Christ. He could only accept his true self once he humbly embraced the grace of God.
Subscribe to ChurchLeaders!Christ purchased this grace for us at the cross where the ugly reality of ourselves met with the beautiful reality of Jesus. He took away the penalty of our ugly reality and transposed the grace of his beautiful reality onto us. Who we are in Christ is now our ultimate reality. We can say with Paul, “I am what I am through the grace of God.” Now that’s something to tweet about.
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5 Ways to Promote Your Church on a Tiny Budget
Church Fuel
Do you want to invite more people to visit your church service or church event? Are you looking for the most cost-effective ways to promote your Church?
Here are some ideas for how you can promote your church.
And these ideas won’t cost a lot of money. In fact, most of them are free.
Idea #1:
Share local events or helpful information on Facebook.
Take a look at the content you share on social media
Is it all about you?
Chances are, you’re doing a pretty good job getting the word out about your services and your events.
It might sound counter-intuitive, but the best way to promote your church is not to promote your church at all. Stop posting selfies, and flip the camera around. Use your promotional resources to talk about things already happening in your community.
In other words, make it about them—not you.
Gwinnett Church does a great job with this with the hashtag #ForGwinnett. Go ahead and search that hashtag.
Sure, you’ll see a few pictures of church services and church events. But you’ll see a lot more stuff about the community.
Here are a few examples illustrating how Gwinnett uses their Facebook page to be about the community.
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When you talk about local businesses, local schools and local events, people notice (and often share). You remind people that you’re not just interested in the growth of the church but the good of the community.
Idea #2:
Equip your people with tools to invite.
I’ve said this before, but churches do a great job asking their members to invite others.
“Don’t forget to invite your friends next week” is a common encouragement at the end of many church services.
But we don’t just need to ask them to invite, we need to equip people to invite. We’ve got to give them the tools they need. Remember, the easier you make something, the more likely someone is to do it.
Simple invite tools are not expensive.
Idea #3:
Leverage social media on Sunday morning.
Carey Nieuwhof says it’s time to stop welcoming people like it’s 1999.
What’s he talking about?
Most people in church have smartphones in their pockets. That’s not something to fear; that’s something to leverage.
Here’s what we mean.
We’ve seen churches put creative signs on the floor, so people can take pictures of their feet and let people know they are at church.
I’ve seen churches encourage people to take out their phones during the welcome and let everyone know they are at church.
I’ve seen churches create sharable notes and quotes so church attenders can share a little about their experience.
The main idea here is to recognize the collective influence of your congregation and find ways to help them leverage those relationships.
Idea #4:
Go old school.
Maybe most people in your church don’t use social media. That’s OK.
There are plenty of non-technological ways you can get the word out about your church or a church event.
In fact, in a digital age, it might even be easier for something counter-culture to get noticed. There are plenty of old school, grassroots methods that still work in addition to new methods.
Idea #5:
Join outside-of-church community groups.
This won’t cost you a lot of money, but there could be a significant long-term impact.
If your community has civic groups, join one.
If your church has more than one person on staff, divide and conquer.
Can you imagine how many relationships and opportunities would happen if every civic group in town had a representative from your church? Someone should be at every Chamber of Commerce meeting. Someone should join the Kiwanis club. Someone should show up at the Young Republicans meeting or the Young Democrats meeting.
Be present in your community and look for ways to help. Your church just might be a solution to a problem some group is trying to work through.
Those are five ideas for how you can promote your church on a tiny budget. Some of these don’t involve any money at all.
But we’d love to hear from you. Leave a comment with what you’re doing and share what’s working in your church.
Here are some ideas for how you can promote your church.
And these ideas won’t cost a lot of money. In fact, most of them are free.
Idea #1:
Share local events or helpful information on Facebook.
Take a look at the content you share on social media
Is it all about you?
Chances are, you’re doing a pretty good job getting the word out about your services and your events.
It might sound counter-intuitive, but the best way to promote your church is not to promote your church at all. Stop posting selfies, and flip the camera around. Use your promotional resources to talk about things already happening in your community.
In other words, make it about them—not you.
Gwinnett Church does a great job with this with the hashtag #ForGwinnett. Go ahead and search that hashtag.
Sure, you’ll see a few pictures of church services and church events. But you’ll see a lot more stuff about the community.
Here are a few examples illustrating how Gwinnett uses their Facebook page to be about the community.
Subscribe to ChurchLeaders!
When you talk about local businesses, local schools and local events, people notice (and often share). You remind people that you’re not just interested in the growth of the church but the good of the community.
Idea #2:
Equip your people with tools to invite.
I’ve said this before, but churches do a great job asking their members to invite others.
“Don’t forget to invite your friends next week” is a common encouragement at the end of many church services.
But we don’t just need to ask them to invite, we need to equip people to invite. We’ve got to give them the tools they need. Remember, the easier you make something, the more likely someone is to do it.
Simple invite tools are not expensive.
- It could be a few creatively designed invite cards printed from Next Day Flyers.
- It could be pre-written social media posts (with pictures) that people could cut, paste and post.
- It could be car stickers, flyers or graphics people can easily share.
Idea #3:
Leverage social media on Sunday morning.
Carey Nieuwhof says it’s time to stop welcoming people like it’s 1999.
What’s he talking about?
Most people in church have smartphones in their pockets. That’s not something to fear; that’s something to leverage.
Here’s what we mean.
We’ve seen churches put creative signs on the floor, so people can take pictures of their feet and let people know they are at church.
I’ve seen churches encourage people to take out their phones during the welcome and let everyone know they are at church.
I’ve seen churches create sharable notes and quotes so church attenders can share a little about their experience.
The main idea here is to recognize the collective influence of your congregation and find ways to help them leverage those relationships.
Idea #4:
Go old school.
Maybe most people in your church don’t use social media. That’s OK.
There are plenty of non-technological ways you can get the word out about your church or a church event.
In fact, in a digital age, it might even be easier for something counter-culture to get noticed. There are plenty of old school, grassroots methods that still work in addition to new methods.
- Printing flyers and handing them out might seem outdated, but if that’s what you can do, go for it.
- Printing road signs and putting them out on the weekend can help you get some positive attention.
- You can hang door-hangers in neighborhoods.
Idea #5:
Join outside-of-church community groups.
This won’t cost you a lot of money, but there could be a significant long-term impact.
If your community has civic groups, join one.
If your church has more than one person on staff, divide and conquer.
Can you imagine how many relationships and opportunities would happen if every civic group in town had a representative from your church? Someone should be at every Chamber of Commerce meeting. Someone should join the Kiwanis club. Someone should show up at the Young Republicans meeting or the Young Democrats meeting.
Be present in your community and look for ways to help. Your church just might be a solution to a problem some group is trying to work through.
Those are five ideas for how you can promote your church on a tiny budget. Some of these don’t involve any money at all.
But we’d love to hear from you. Leave a comment with what you’re doing and share what’s working in your church.
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19 Now, it is commendable if, because of one’s understanding of God, someone should endure pain through suffering unjustly. 20 But what praise comes from enduring patiently when you have sinned and are beaten for it? But if you endure steadfastly when you’ve done good and suffer for it, this is commendable before God.
1 Peter 2:19-21 CEB
In our hearts and lives we strive to honor the Lord as men and women of God. Our devotion and our dedication is directed toward pleasing Him. Nevertheless, the world is totally contradictory to that approach, and beckons you to seek popularity, pride, etc.. Its outspoken architect Satan, constantly bombards you with the concept of popularity and pride. It baths the very fabric and core of our society or social standing with likes, friending, followers being the ultimate satisfaction in life. However, no matter how nice that might be. It can never replace the fact that I am a child of God, a joint heir with Jesus, and no matter what the world thinks about me. If Jesus is pleased with me, that is all the popularity I need.
From the very beginning of my ministry I remember how numbers, or popularity meant so much in so many ways. Young ministers needed the show they had the anointing, or the best sermons, or the greatest musical talent to persevere, or be successful. This had us gravitated toward pleasing men, rather than ultimately to God. As we tried to put on the best show in order to be seen of man, and get the status we needed to get the next gig, or to preach in the churches we wanted to preach in. This approach seems totally contradictory toward the biblical approach of the ministry, considering humility, grace, mercy and ultimate devotion to God. Nevertheless, in the back of our minds success had numbers written all over it. The facts and figures were the bottom line.
Thankfully, my early beginnings were in home mission churches with Pastors who remembered when they started their churches with just a few. Working jobs and their family being the core members in their early church. It gave them, and has me the underpinning of sacrifice before numbers, God’s anointing before men’s favor and faith before evidence of things seen.
We need to be reminded in this hour that our life, our hope, our joy, our definition of success is not bent upon the numbers baptized and saved, but the character and love of God we portray. That every soul is precious in the sight of God, and we should leave no stone unturned in presenting the good news of Jesus Christ to those we come in contact to. That the anointing and favor of God, is more important to us than the praise of man, or how many we see in the pew. For when we stand before God it won’t be the numbers of the congregation or the saints we saw saved that will mark the men or women we are. It would rather be the fruit of the Spirit we showed, the character of Jesus we embraced and the love for His creation that will make all the difference in our eternal place of abode.
Where did we ever get the idea that everybody would appreciate us? Certainly not from Jesus! He said His blessings are reserved for the “persecuted” and “reviled” (Matthew 5:11). If you have thin skin, life will give you a rough time, and your critics will find you an easy target.
Endurance is the secret not popularity!
Look what Paul endured in order to fulfill his life’s goal. Desertion by his friends, ugly letters from the Corinthians, disappointment with the Galatians, mistreatment in Philippi, mocking in Athens, imprisonment and beheading in Rome. And you’re complaining?
From prison he writes, “Everything happening to me in this jail only serves to make Christ more accurately known, regardless of whether I live or die. They didn’t shut me up; they gave me a pulpit! Alive, I’m Christ’s messenger; dead I’m His bounty. Life versus even more life! I can’t lose” (Philippians 1:21-22, TM).
Troubles will come, suffering is part of life and struggles may come our way. Remember though, that He never gives up, He never gave in, and He will never forsake you. His love never changes, and His promises are true. Seek the the giver of life. Seek the cross and don’t try to avoid the pain, for just beyond the cross is the resurrection power He promised to us all. Pentecost is just around the corner, just a few more days, just a few more hours, and then the Glory of God will make its heavenly visitation upon you. Wait upon the Lord, endure to the end for it is our commendable service to God.
We appreciate all our family and friends at FBC. Please keep FBC in your daily prayers as we desire God's wisdom in His Kingdom work.
In His Grace,
Dr. Patrick Vossen
President, FBC
1 (870) 330-0240
http://focusbiblecollege.org
focusbiblecollege@gmx.com
1 Peter 2:19-21 CEB
In our hearts and lives we strive to honor the Lord as men and women of God. Our devotion and our dedication is directed toward pleasing Him. Nevertheless, the world is totally contradictory to that approach, and beckons you to seek popularity, pride, etc.. Its outspoken architect Satan, constantly bombards you with the concept of popularity and pride. It baths the very fabric and core of our society or social standing with likes, friending, followers being the ultimate satisfaction in life. However, no matter how nice that might be. It can never replace the fact that I am a child of God, a joint heir with Jesus, and no matter what the world thinks about me. If Jesus is pleased with me, that is all the popularity I need.
From the very beginning of my ministry I remember how numbers, or popularity meant so much in so many ways. Young ministers needed the show they had the anointing, or the best sermons, or the greatest musical talent to persevere, or be successful. This had us gravitated toward pleasing men, rather than ultimately to God. As we tried to put on the best show in order to be seen of man, and get the status we needed to get the next gig, or to preach in the churches we wanted to preach in. This approach seems totally contradictory toward the biblical approach of the ministry, considering humility, grace, mercy and ultimate devotion to God. Nevertheless, in the back of our minds success had numbers written all over it. The facts and figures were the bottom line.
Thankfully, my early beginnings were in home mission churches with Pastors who remembered when they started their churches with just a few. Working jobs and their family being the core members in their early church. It gave them, and has me the underpinning of sacrifice before numbers, God’s anointing before men’s favor and faith before evidence of things seen.
We need to be reminded in this hour that our life, our hope, our joy, our definition of success is not bent upon the numbers baptized and saved, but the character and love of God we portray. That every soul is precious in the sight of God, and we should leave no stone unturned in presenting the good news of Jesus Christ to those we come in contact to. That the anointing and favor of God, is more important to us than the praise of man, or how many we see in the pew. For when we stand before God it won’t be the numbers of the congregation or the saints we saw saved that will mark the men or women we are. It would rather be the fruit of the Spirit we showed, the character of Jesus we embraced and the love for His creation that will make all the difference in our eternal place of abode.
Where did we ever get the idea that everybody would appreciate us? Certainly not from Jesus! He said His blessings are reserved for the “persecuted” and “reviled” (Matthew 5:11). If you have thin skin, life will give you a rough time, and your critics will find you an easy target.
Endurance is the secret not popularity!
Look what Paul endured in order to fulfill his life’s goal. Desertion by his friends, ugly letters from the Corinthians, disappointment with the Galatians, mistreatment in Philippi, mocking in Athens, imprisonment and beheading in Rome. And you’re complaining?
From prison he writes, “Everything happening to me in this jail only serves to make Christ more accurately known, regardless of whether I live or die. They didn’t shut me up; they gave me a pulpit! Alive, I’m Christ’s messenger; dead I’m His bounty. Life versus even more life! I can’t lose” (Philippians 1:21-22, TM).
Troubles will come, suffering is part of life and struggles may come our way. Remember though, that He never gives up, He never gave in, and He will never forsake you. His love never changes, and His promises are true. Seek the the giver of life. Seek the cross and don’t try to avoid the pain, for just beyond the cross is the resurrection power He promised to us all. Pentecost is just around the corner, just a few more days, just a few more hours, and then the Glory of God will make its heavenly visitation upon you. Wait upon the Lord, endure to the end for it is our commendable service to God.
We appreciate all our family and friends at FBC. Please keep FBC in your daily prayers as we desire God's wisdom in His Kingdom work.
In His Grace,
Dr. Patrick Vossen
President, FBC
1 (870) 330-0240
http://focusbiblecollege.org
focusbiblecollege@gmx.com
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