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Please pray for our Fulani friends in C.A.R.\u00a0 We’ve heard news of bold harassment in our town very recently, and even though no one has been injured, it has set back the encouraging movement forward toward peace of the past year or so.\u00a0 We still have to hope for reconciliation and forgiveness, for heart changing and life changing blessings!\u00a0 These incidents were taken in stride by our Fulani buddies, and our colleagues in ministry there are keeping on with all things as usual.\u00a0 We still have to hope.\u00a0 We have to hope that God will soften hearts, that He will reveal himself in wondrous ways to the lost!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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