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It’s official: I’ve left my role as Director of Technical
season of new life, and the celebration of Res- Services at Assemblies of God World Missions.
urrection Life. Spring blooms, animal babies, They gave me a going away party complete with a
family times, and moments of deep spiritual cake that
impact all cluster together in my memory. appropri-
Christ arose! And because He lives, we no ately sported
longer have to live as if death is the ultimate a pledge
reality. The power to kill is a second-rate form!
power in the universe—there is one who has
the power to give life! And in case we’ve for- We are get-
gotten that, He uses all of nature as His can- ting into the
vas, every spring, to remind us. rhythm of
raising funds
Since our last newslet- as candidate
ter just before Christ- missionaries
mas, we have been to Tanzania,
nearly overwhelmed East Africa. Our goal is to be in Tanzania the begin-
with special moments, ning of 2004. We have called all 392 AG churches
each deserving to be in the Southern Missouri district and are still calling.
savored and memo- Pray with us that God will direct us to the places we
rized for more savor- can help, as well as those that can help us with
ing later. They have pledges of church support. We also need personal
been coming as thick pledges from family and friends to enable us to get
and sweet as corn there. God is blessing our efforts and so far we are
syrup from a fire hose. on track, but we still have about 75% to go.
To start with, Jackie We are needed in Tanzania and we are eager to get
and I are now grand- there. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, the greatest
parents, with two new granddaughters. As I church planting revival Africa has ever seen—
type this, Kaiya Noel Braswell is nine weeks perhaps the greatest the world has ever seen—is tak-
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and his wife Sabrina on January 27. She the African church. Pray that God will send laborers,
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They live in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Eric and would be smart to stay here, if this short life was our
ultimate reality. But our priorities have to reflect a
Emma in the hospital, where the above snap- higher reality:
shot was taken.
He lives!
From the moment Kaiya appeared, we have
lost all objectivity. We have been carrying
grandbaby pictures around and showing them
to total strangers, with complete conviction
that ours are in fact the most beautiful grand-
babies in the world.