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INSIDE REPORT
PERSPECTIVE
VOL. 34, NO. 1

President
Pastor Doug Batchelor
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Managing editor
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I enjoy seeing the world-famous
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engagement in Fiji, my wife and I left the
main island, lew to a smaller island, then
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took a boat to an even smaller island, rode in
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the Internet, public evangelism, outreach hiked in to see one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the South Paciic.We never would
training, and more. For operation, we have experienced this natural wonder if we hadn’t pushed ourselves to go a little farther.
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It reminded me that too many Christians are missing out on the beauties of a deeper
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walk with God. We often hear sermons about the starting point in our faith, but not
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