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Fishing for Fishermen Missouri college students reach out to the fishermen of Senegal. View streaming: 56k | 175k | 300k Download MPEG1 [download] Quicktime 300 | [download] *To download MPEG-1 or Quicktime, right mouse click on [Download] and choose "save target as"

Jeremy in the Jungle As a journeyman, Jeremy went deep into the heart of Peru's jungles to take the Word of God to the Asheninka people. View MPEG-1 [view] Download MPEG-1 [download] *To download MPEG-1 or Quicktime, right mouse click on [Download] and choose "save target as"

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People Group Focus: The Pumi of China

Many medicinal herbs and over 100 varieties of edible fungi are grown by the Pumi [poo-mee] people of China so their people will have healthy lives. But only 30 of the approximately 34,000 Pumi know the key to eternal life through Jesus Christ.
Read more about the Pumi . . .

Prayer Points for the Pumi

1. Pray for God to send laborers to the harvest field among the Pumi. Will you go?

2. Ask God to remind the few believers among the Pumi to be unified so that the other Pumi will know they are followers of Jesus because of their love for each other.

3. Pray that Jesus will reveal Himself to the Pumi through messengers and dreams as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

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Bible Study: Surprised by joy
By Wendy Jackson

Theologian Henri Nouwen said, “[This] discipline is the hardest one: it is the discipline to be surprised not by suffering but by joy. . . There is suffering ahead of us, a suffering that will continue to tempt us to think that we have chosen the wrong road and that others were more shrewd than we were. But don't be surprised by pain. Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.”

I've really been thinking about joy and suffering a lot the past week, and I've been amazed at the good it has done for my heart to view life through the lenses of joy. Read more . . .