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M O O D Y M I S S I O N S<br />
C O N F E R E N C E<br />
H.E.R.<br />
HONOR. EMPOWER. RELEASE.<br />
O C T . 1 0 - 1 3 , 2 0 1 7
IF<br />
you are reading this, the Annual Missions Conference has already descended<br />
on the Chicago campus. The commitment to missions is inextricably tied<br />
into our identity and DNA. Thousands of alumni have been inspired, mobilized, and<br />
equipped to serve the cause of Christ across cultures, languages and generations.<br />
This year’s conference intends to celebrate and recognize the contributions of<br />
women in missions. The theme is H.E.R. Honor.Empower.Release. Through dynamic<br />
speakers like Dr. Ed Stetzer and Carolyn Custis James, passionate worship, and<br />
thought-provoking workshops, the Moody community as a whole and in part will learn<br />
how they can participate in God’s multi-lingual, multi-ethnic, and multi-racial global<br />
enterprise called the church.<br />
There are several elements in the overall missions conference experience that you<br />
will not want to miss. We are releasing Volume III of the Moody Missions Collective.<br />
We will be highlighting the stories of ten female alumni who graduated from Moody in<br />
the early 20th century. Five of them will also be introduced to Moody through dramatic<br />
presentations. We have also commissioned a spoken word piece in honor of Emma<br />
Dryer. This will take place on Wednesday evening, so you will not want to miss it. And<br />
lastly, EthneFest will take place on Thursday night.<br />
This theme was identified through much prayer, reflection, and dialogue and the<br />
image posted on Facebook was carefully and prayerfully crafted. The intention was to<br />
convey a simple, yet elegant image of a strong woman, a warrior and woman of valor.<br />
Every time we use the arts and visual images they is a potential for misunderstanding.<br />
Please lean into any discomfort or dissonance caused by any part of missions<br />
conference. Seek first to understand and pray through your discomfort. I ask that<br />
you respond to the conference’s overall message, not just a piece. Our purpose is<br />
to juxtapose the image of warrior and the images of ordinary missionaries to Honor.<br />
Empower.Release.<br />
The time is now to honor women in missions. Approximately 2/3 of the<br />
missionary force has been comprised of women. Even the very school that hosts this<br />
conference, would not exist, but for the prayers and labors of Emma Dryer. And I think it<br />
is time that we had a serious conversation about how women are honored, empowered<br />
and released in service of the Lord Jesus Christ.<br />
H.E.R INTRODUCTION<br />
3<br />
For God, the Cities and the Nations,<br />
Clive Craigen<br />
@urban_prof<br />
@MissionsMoody
IMPORTANT DETAILS<br />
HOSPITALITY DESK<br />
Located in ASC1 is the one stop help station to answer<br />
any questions about: workshops, sessions, lost and found,<br />
and any other random questions that come to mind. This<br />
is also the place get your ticket for the Ice Cream Social.<br />
Be sure to purchase some awesome MC 17 merch while<br />
at the desk!<br />
LIVE STREAMING<br />
This year’s General Sessions will follow the Mission<br />
Conference theme: H.E.R. (Honor, Empower, Release)<br />
through different speakers.<br />
LISTEN FOR FREE @<br />
www.moody.edu/missions-conference/live-video<br />
Be sure to spread the word so that others can catch a<br />
glimpse of the conference.<br />
LIMITED TICKET EVENT<br />
There are three “meet and greet” ice cream socials<br />
throughout the week. They have limited space, so be sure<br />
to get your ticket from the Sponsors Organization Table!<br />
8:45pm Call of Hope<br />
TUES ONLY<br />
8:45pm Pioneers<br />
WED ONLY<br />
8:45pm The Navigators<br />
THURS ONLY<br />
In order to get a ticket for the event talk with one of<br />
the reps from the sponsoring organization table.
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RAFFLE ENTRY<br />
Check out all of the incredible displays on ASC2! While<br />
you are up there, get signatures from the different reps and<br />
missionaries so you can enter into the raffle! The more names<br />
you get, the more entries you have for the raffle.<br />
1O NAMES = 1 entry at BASIC level prize<br />
20 NAMES = 1 entry at DELUXE level prize<br />
30 NAMES = 1 entry at PREMIUM level<br />
Basic Prizes: your choice of a free shirt from Moody Gear or a<br />
$10 Joe’s gift card<br />
Deluxe Prizes: prize basket including: a 75% off a single item<br />
coupon from Moody Publishers, a Mission Conference shirt,<br />
MC17 stickers, the Moody Missions Collective CD, and a $5<br />
Joe’s gift card<br />
Premium Prize: A version of Logos Bible Software<br />
THANKS YOU TO OUR SPONSORS<br />
The Moody Mission Conference<br />
would not be possible each year<br />
without the partnership of sponsors,<br />
missionaries, and their organizations.<br />
The Intercultural Studies Division would like to thank<br />
each of the agency sponsors who have helped make this<br />
years conference possible.<br />
A special thank you to Dr. Mary Cloutier who<br />
researched tirelessly to create the Alumni Missionary<br />
Bios for this year’s conference<br />
IMPORTANT DETAILS<br />
#MBIMC17<br />
Be sure to use the HashTag
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TABLE OF CONTENT<br />
H.E.R Letter<br />
Important Info<br />
General Schedule<br />
Speaker Bios<br />
Speaker Schedule<br />
Seminar Options<br />
Global Prayer Groups<br />
Pick your Seminar<br />
3<br />
4-5<br />
10-11<br />
12-13<br />
14<br />
16-23<br />
24-25<br />
26-27<br />
Notes<br />
Moody Alumni<br />
Sponsoring Agencies<br />
28-35<br />
37-49<br />
50-51
Thursday, Oct. 12<br />
7:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.<br />
Northfield Room<br />
Please sign up at the front desk in<br />
The Commons or in the Alumni Office, Smith 1
a west-meets-east easter celebration<br />
An Easter celebration like never before.<br />
Anastasi 2019 is a conference that purposes to bring believers<br />
from the East and West in a unique celebration of Christ's<br />
resurrection in Thessaloniki, Greece, creating meaningful<br />
relationships that strengthen one another, in light of the<br />
present challenges facing the church and the world of Islam.
Taking the light of Christ to the<br />
difficult places in the world.<br />
For almost 20 years we’ve sent teams<br />
and interns to serve in Mozambique,<br />
Nigeria, Haiti, Burma and South Asia.<br />
—Come join us in 2018—<br />
Anita@childrensrelief.org<br />
MARCH 2018<br />
PCM MINISTRY TRIPS<br />
BERLIN & LONDON<br />
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC<br />
FLORIDA<br />
FRANCE<br />
GREECE<br />
HAITI<br />
INDIA<br />
PHILIPPINES<br />
UGANDA<br />
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/<br />
MinistryTripApplication<br />
BE PART OF<br />
THE STORY<br />
IN EUROPE<br />
Many wouldn’t think to call Europe<br />
unreached, but fewer than 2% of<br />
Europeans know Jesus.<br />
As more people arrive from closed<br />
countries all over the world,<br />
Europe is a stratigic place to take<br />
the Gospel so the world would<br />
know Jesus!<br />
Stop by the GEM booth to hear<br />
about PCM trips to France &<br />
Belgium and Lesvos, Greece.<br />
@gemintern<br />
@gemoody<br />
@gembeccamartin<br />
www.gemadventure.com
SCHEDULE<br />
9:00 AM<br />
10:30 AM<br />
11:00 AM<br />
12:00 PM<br />
12:30 PM<br />
1:30 PM<br />
2:00 PM<br />
TUESDAY<br />
OCT 10<br />
3:00 PM<br />
3:30 PM<br />
4:30 PM<br />
6:00 PM<br />
6:45 PM<br />
7:00 PM<br />
8:30 PM<br />
9:00 PM<br />
10:30 PM<br />
General Session 1<br />
Torrey Gray<br />
Agency Displays<br />
ASC 2
WEDNESDAY<br />
OCT 11<br />
THURSDAY<br />
OCT 12<br />
FRIDAY<br />
0CT 13<br />
11<br />
General Session 2 General Session 4<br />
Torrey Gray<br />
Torrey Gray<br />
Global Prayer Groups<br />
Seminars<br />
Alumni, Culby,<br />
Sweeting<br />
Seminars<br />
Alumni, Culby,<br />
Sweeting<br />
Seminars<br />
Alumni, Culby,<br />
Sweeting<br />
Seminars<br />
Alumni, Culby,<br />
Sweeting<br />
General Session 7<br />
Torrey Gray<br />
Seminars<br />
Alumni, Culby,<br />
Sweeting<br />
Seminars<br />
Alumni, Culby,<br />
Sweeting<br />
Seminars<br />
Alumni, Culby,<br />
Sweeting<br />
Seminars<br />
Alumni, Culby,<br />
Sweeting<br />
Intercessory Prayer<br />
Culby Prayer Chapel<br />
Intercessory Prayer<br />
Culby Prayer Chapel<br />
General Session 3 General Session 5<br />
Torrey Gray<br />
Torrey Gray<br />
Red- IS REQUIRED<br />
KEY<br />
Gray- counts towards total<br />
session count<br />
Agency Displays<br />
Agency Displays<br />
ASC 2 ASC 2<br />
If you have any questions concerning<br />
attendance requirements please go to<br />
your My.Moody.edu portal
Carolyn Custis James<br />
SPEAKER BIOS<br />
Carolyn Custis James (MA, Biblical<br />
Studies) travels extensively as a popular<br />
speaker for women’s conferences,<br />
churches, colleges, seminaries, and<br />
other Christian organizations. Her<br />
ministry organization, WhitbyForum,<br />
promotes thoughtful biblical discussion<br />
to help men and women serve God<br />
together. Carolyn founded and is<br />
president of the Synergy Women’s<br />
Network. She is a consulting editor for<br />
Zondervan’s Exegetical Commentary<br />
Series on the New Testament and<br />
author of When Life and Beliefs Collide<br />
and Lost Women of the Bible. Carolyn<br />
and her husband live in Sellersville,<br />
Pennsylvania. They have one grown<br />
daughter.<br />
Jazz Becker<br />
Jazz Becker studied contemporary<br />
Christian music (with a studio recording<br />
emphasis) at Greenville College in<br />
Illinois for two years. She transferred<br />
to the University of Hawaii`i at Mānoa<br />
and earned a BA in Second Language<br />
Studies. Jazz also studied French at<br />
Les Cèdres language school and the<br />
Sorbonne in Paris. In 2012 she was<br />
appointed by Greater Europe Mission<br />
to join the France team and arrived in<br />
Paris in 2014. She enjoys being a wife,<br />
music, going to the beach, reading,<br />
traveling, writing, sports, foreign<br />
languages and quoting movies with her<br />
sisters. Jazz and Sven were married in<br />
2016 and live in Paris.”
Suzy Penner<br />
Suzy & her husband Ernie<br />
spent the last 17 years assisting<br />
the vulnerable and multiplying<br />
disciples in Kosovo. They’ve just<br />
relocated to Colorado, where Suzy<br />
serves on the executive team as<br />
Director of Personnel, Global, for<br />
Greater Europe Mission. When<br />
Suzy and Ernie arrived in Kosovo,<br />
they were the only believers in<br />
their town. Seven years later, a<br />
group of youth came to Christ and<br />
started leading others to Christ.<br />
Determined to never turn back,<br />
they’ve stayed strong in the face of<br />
persecution and have matured into<br />
brilliant leaders. God used a shortterm<br />
experience in Arizona to call<br />
Suzy into missions. Her degree<br />
is in anthropology and she loves<br />
digging into culture. She’s studied<br />
in Austria and has served in Latvia,<br />
Bulgaria and Kosovo. She gets<br />
worked up over injustice, enjoys a<br />
new challenge, and has been told<br />
she’s too stubborn to give up.<br />
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Dr. Ed Stetzer<br />
Interim Teaching Pastor at<br />
Moody Church, Ed Stetzer is an<br />
author, speaker, researcher, pastor,<br />
church planter, and Christian<br />
missiologist. He holds the recentlycreated<br />
Billy Graham Distinguished<br />
Chair for Church, Mission, and<br />
Evangelism at Wheaton College,<br />
and also serves as the Executive<br />
Director of the Billy Graham Center<br />
for Evangelism and as chair of<br />
the Evangelism and Leadership<br />
Program in the Graduate School.<br />
Ed and his wife Donna have been<br />
married more than 25 years and<br />
have three daughters.
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SPEAKER SCHEDULE<br />
MORNING SET<br />
NIGHT SET<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
SPEAKER:<br />
Carolyn Custis James<br />
MUSIC:<br />
Christiana Galaei<br />
THURSDAY<br />
SPEAKER:<br />
Carolyn Custis James<br />
MUSIC:<br />
Katherine Kloepper<br />
TUESDAY<br />
SPEAKER:<br />
Suzy Penner<br />
MUSIC:<br />
Renew Movement<br />
SPEAKER:<br />
Dr.Ed Stetzer<br />
MUSIC:<br />
Brittany Delagraentiss<br />
EthneFest<br />
MUSIC:<br />
After the Due Order<br />
FRIDAY<br />
SPEAKER:<br />
Jazz Becker &<br />
Carolyn Custis James<br />
MUSIC:<br />
The McKelvy Sisters<br />
#MBIMC17
Custom<br />
Missions<br />
Internships<br />
abwe.org/go
SEMINARS<br />
11:00 AM- 12:00PM<br />
FOR DESCRIPTIONS VISIT:<br />
www.moody.edu/missions-conference<br />
BUILDING ROOM # SESSION PRESENTER<br />
AGENCY<br />
ALUMNI Born This Way, Hey(WEDNESDAY ONLY)<br />
Doug Martin ABWE<br />
CULBY 1 GREAT RM The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Women in Missions<br />
Suzy Penner, Ashley Lough GEM & Shepherd<br />
(WOMEN ONLY)<br />
Community Center<br />
SWEETING 211 The Life and Legacy of Mary Mcleodbuthun<br />
Dr. Mary Cloutier<br />
SWEETING<br />
219 City Girl to Jungle Missionary<br />
Lori Luse Ethnos 360<br />
SWEETING<br />
319 Men: Honor, Encourage, and Respect Women in Ministry<br />
Julie C. Pioneers<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
328 Storytelling: Because Who Wants to Listen to a Sermon?<br />
Nora McNamara Wycliffe Bible Translators<br />
4<br />
Christian Education as a Mission Strategy in Africa (WED ONLY) Karen ELliot The Rafiki Foundation<br />
SWEETING 201 Mission Conference Blues<br />
Thad Bergmeier ABWE<br />
SWEETING 204 Preparing to Serve as a Single Missionary and Supporting Singles Tamara Soderstrom Christar<br />
SWEETING<br />
205 Innovative Pathways<br />
Marc & Mary Wooten The Navigators<br />
SWEETING<br />
206 Teaching in Thailand<br />
Crossworld<br />
SWEETING<br />
207 Endure: Standing the Test of Time<br />
Aaron Luse Ethnos 360<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
209 Ministering in an Honor/Shame Context<br />
222 Whole Family Mission: Making your Home a Lighthouse in the<br />
Community<br />
Camino Global<br />
Dr. JohnvAdams Village Missions
SWEETING<br />
SEMINARS<br />
11:00 AM- 12:00PM<br />
Schmuel Arnold Chosen People Ministry<br />
Paul Nix & Nathan Flickner InnerCHANGE<br />
223 Reaching Jew and Gentiles through Guesthouse Ministry<br />
SWEETING<br />
225 CMAG Student Group (WED) /Mukappa Student Group (THURS)<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
Life In Messiah<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING 333 Democracy’s Debt to Missionaries<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
Gayle Murray SIM<br />
226 Submerging Together: Doing Incarntional Ministry as a Team<br />
230 Do You Need to be Jewish to Reach Jewish People?<br />
233 Developing a Theology of Suffering<br />
234 Urban Cohorts: North Side<br />
235 How Women are Uniquely Wired for Cross Cultural Ministry<br />
301 Hope for the Bibleless<br />
Sharon Hartwig &<br />
North American Indignous<br />
Sarah Morris<br />
Ministry( NAIM)<br />
Nathan Davenport Pioneeer Bible Translators<br />
SWEETING<br />
Teach Beyond<br />
ELIC<br />
Megan Mckenney &<br />
Jenny Jessup<br />
343 Short-Term Redefined: Doing Short-Term Missions Well<br />
345 Serving the Displaced in the Middle East Through Education<br />
Students Urban Cohorts<br />
SWEETING 335 Wives and Mothers of Ministry<br />
Call of Hope<br />
Crossworld<br />
Eric & Beth Mason South Asian Friendship<br />
Center<br />
347 The Role of Men and Women in Ministery to South Asians<br />
SWEETING<br />
Africa Inland Mission<br />
Jews for Jesus<br />
317 Boko Haram Meets Jesus<br />
17<br />
349 Tips on Cummunicating Jesus to Jewish People
SEMINARS<br />
12:30 PM- 1:30PM<br />
FOR DESCRIPTIONS VISIT:<br />
www.moody.edu/missions-conference<br />
BUILDING ROOM # SESSION PRESENTER AGENCY<br />
ALUMNI Sexual Health and Wholeness for Men ( MEN ONLY)<br />
Mike Kozlarek The Navigators<br />
CULBY 1 GREAT RM Q&A with Caroyln Custis James (THURSDAY ONLY)<br />
SWEETING<br />
211 Business as Missions with Human Trafficking<br />
Ginny Hanson Sak Sum 1<br />
SWEETING<br />
219 Needs and Challenges of Indigenous/Native Youth in North America<br />
Interact Ministries<br />
SWEETING 319 Who Sinned? Viewing Disability Through the Eyes of Jesus<br />
North American Indigenous Ministries<br />
SWEETING 328 WDID?: What Did Jesus Do?<br />
Judy Groters The Navigators<br />
SWEETING<br />
4 Sexual Health and Wholeness for Women (WOMEN ONLY)<br />
(WED ONLY)<br />
Thad Bergmeier ABWE<br />
SWEETING<br />
201 Redeeming Entertainment<br />
Joshua Oh One Challenge<br />
SWEETING 204 How to Choose a Sending Agency<br />
Norm Hubbard & The Navigators<br />
Tammy Mann<br />
SWEETING 205 Power of Vulnerability in Minstry<br />
Rachel Meredith WEC International<br />
SWEETING 206 Seeing Those Unseen: Gods Heart for Arab Women<br />
Becca Martin Great Europe Mission<br />
SWEETING<br />
207 Thriving as a Single of the Mission Field<br />
SWEETING<br />
209 Prayer Mosaic
19<br />
SWEETING<br />
222 Compassionate Missions<br />
SWEETING<br />
223 Spain: Less the 1%<br />
SWEETING<br />
225 Hindsight is 20/20<br />
SWEETING<br />
226 Roots & Fruits<br />
SWEETING<br />
230 Mark Twain on Global Missions<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
233 From Syrian Refugee to Disciplemaker<br />
234 Urban Cohorts: West Side<br />
235 Reaching the Unreached in the U.S.<br />
SWEETING<br />
301 When You Dont Know What to Do: Using Spiritual Formation<br />
To Discern<br />
SWEETING 319 Mission Living: What Really Matters<br />
SWEETING 333 The Special Mindset<br />
SWEETING 335 Men on Mission<br />
SWEETING<br />
343 ONE Thing You Need to Know Before You Go<br />
SWEETING<br />
345 Living Overseas: Real Life With Megan McKeeny & Jenny Jessup<br />
SWEETING 347 Conflict: The Unexpected Benefits of Ministry<br />
SWEETING 349 Muslims and Jesus’ Greatest Teaching<br />
SEMINARS<br />
12:30 PM- 1:30PM<br />
Dr. John Adams Village Missions<br />
Pere Gonzalez L’Arcada<br />
Andy Miller SEND International<br />
Encompass World Partners<br />
Justin Kron Chosen People’s Ministry<br />
Call of Hope<br />
Students UrbanCohorts<br />
World Team<br />
Nathan Davenport Pioneer Bible Translators<br />
Kristen & Alvin Pioneers<br />
The MOYA Foundation<br />
Africa Inland Mission (AIM)<br />
Callie Fulton & United World Mission<br />
Ronnie Barnes<br />
Megan Mckenney & ELIC<br />
Jenny Jessup<br />
Stephen Wasburn Village Missions<br />
Avant Ministries
SEMINARS<br />
2:00 PM- 3:00 PM<br />
FOR DESCRIPTIONS VISIT:<br />
www.moody.edu/missions-conference<br />
BUILDING ROOM # SESSION PRESENTER<br />
AGENCY<br />
ALUMNI How the “Billy Graham Rule” Affects Women in Urban Ministry<br />
Shepherd Community Center<br />
CULBY 1 GREAT RM Faculty Q&A with Carolyn Custis James (WED ONLY)<br />
Life and Legacy of Emma Dryer (THURS ONLY) Dr. Nina Bissett<br />
SWEETING<br />
211 Empowering Women to Change the World<br />
Karis Jorden<br />
Chicago Chold Evangelism<br />
Fellowship<br />
SWEETING<br />
219 Behind the Veil: Women to Change the World<br />
Stefano Fehr Call of Hope<br />
SWEETING<br />
319 Evangelism and Justice<br />
International Teams<br />
SWEETING<br />
328 How Adoption Displays the Gospel<br />
Shepherd Care<br />
SWEETING<br />
4 Challenges of Working in a Closed Country<br />
Becca Lufkin OMF<br />
SWEETING<br />
201 Mapping a World Forward<br />
Tammy Murden The Navigators<br />
SWEETING<br />
204 Christian Education as a Mission Strategy in Africa (WED ONLY)<br />
Karen ELliot The Rafiki Foundation<br />
SWEETING<br />
205 The Five Challenges of Discipleship from Jesus<br />
Josiah Venture<br />
SWEETING<br />
206 Wycliffe’s Women of the Word<br />
Kelly Chestnut Wycliffe Bible Translators<br />
SWEETING<br />
207 The Evolution of the Mormon Temple Ritual<br />
Mission to Mormons<br />
SWEETING<br />
209 Christ-Centered Education: Children Victimized by Abuse and Poverty<br />
Blessing Rowland-Adeniyi Children’s Relief International
SWEETING<br />
SEMINARS<br />
2:00 PM- 3:00 PM<br />
Gayle Murray SIM<br />
SWEETING<br />
223 Moral Purity: A Narrow Road that Leads to Life<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING 230 Resilient Missionaries<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
Nathan Davenport Pioneer Bible Translators<br />
SWEETING 333 Why are There so Few Jews in Pews<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING 347 Opportunities for Gospel in Moments of Crisis<br />
Serina Klotz & Sue Post South America Mission<br />
World Venture<br />
235 Worldventure Holistic 360 Missions<br />
Justin Kron Chossen People Ministries<br />
Tiffany Johnson Christar<br />
343 Harnessing the Power of Story<br />
345 Teacher Finished! Incarnating Christ in the Classroom<br />
Rick Hudson Fellowshop International<br />
225 Top 10 Ways to Reach to the World<br />
Life In Messiah<br />
Youth for Christ<br />
SWEETING 233 Youth Ministry: A Global Perspective<br />
Entrust<br />
226 Reaching Israeli Backpackers in Patagonia<br />
301 Women on a Mission: Fulfilling God’s Design for Women<br />
Students Urban Cohort<br />
Bob Murray SIM<br />
335 Teaching Cross-Culturally<br />
Stephen Washburn Village Missions<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING 317 Thriving in the Face of Adversity<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING 349 Short-Term Teaching in Tanzania<br />
234 Urban Cohorts: South Side<br />
Alvin & Kristen Pioneers<br />
Benjamin Jordin Chicago CEF<br />
Village Schools International<br />
222 The Forgotten Ambition<br />
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SEMINARS<br />
3:30 PM- 4:30 PM<br />
FOR DESCRIPTIONS VISIT:<br />
www.moody.edu/missions-conference<br />
BUILDING ROOM # SESSION<br />
PRESENTER<br />
AGENCY<br />
ALUMNI Same-Sex Attraction ( THURSDAY ONLY)<br />
Laurence Koo The Navigators<br />
CULBY 1<br />
Education to Change the World<br />
Becca Martin GEM<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
211 Sewing Machines and Toolboxes: Fighting the Real War in Middle East<br />
219 Ethnic Minority Contribution to the Nations<br />
James Kang &<br />
Ethan Chan<br />
Entrust<br />
The Navigators<br />
SWEETING<br />
SWEETING<br />
319<br />
One ofThings Women can do In Minisrty Better then Men:<br />
Reaching The Abused Female<br />
328 The Mission Field of Adoption: Caring for Orphans and Widows<br />
Nathan Flickner & InnerCHANGE<br />
Paul Nix<br />
Becca Lufkin Shepherd Care<br />
SWEETING<br />
4 Challenges of Working in a Closed Country<br />
OMF<br />
SWEETING 201 The New Face of Europe<br />
Laura Eller<br />
One Challenge<br />
SWEETING 204 Refugees in Europe: A Mission Field or Mission Force?<br />
Suzy Penner<br />
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MISSIONARIES
Emeline “Emma” Dryer was born in<br />
Massachusetts in 1835 to John and Lucinda<br />
Dryer of Victor, New York. As a young woman,<br />
Emma enrolled in the LeRoy Female Seminary.<br />
An accomplished teacher at age 29, Dryer<br />
accepted the position of preceptress at Illinois<br />
State Normal University.<br />
At age 35, Dryer suffered from a nearly fatal<br />
case of typhoid fever, causing her to reconsider<br />
God’s purpose for her life. Emma wrote, “I saw<br />
the needs of this dying world, as never before,<br />
especially the fallen, wretched condition of the<br />
masses around me.”<br />
While staying with friends in Chicago,<br />
Dryer was introduced to evangelist Dwight<br />
Lyman Moody and learned about his vision for<br />
ministry. On October 8, 1871, the Great Chicago<br />
Fire began and many people, including Dryer,<br />
lost everything. “Every article of clothing except<br />
what I was wearing at the time was burned in<br />
the fire,” she wrote. She stayed to help with<br />
recovery efforts. Under Dryer’s leadership, the<br />
YWCA reorganized itself, temporarily, as the<br />
Chicago Women’s Aid Society.<br />
Moody challenged Dryer not to return to<br />
her career as a school teacher, but to remain in<br />
Chicago and create a school for men and women<br />
who desired to train for Christian service. By<br />
1878, the Chicago Bible work had begun. Dryer<br />
supervised 17 adult students who enrolled in<br />
classes including Bible study, Bible history and<br />
methods of Christian work. They also visited<br />
homes, ministering to people in some of the most<br />
economically challenged areas of the city.<br />
In 1884, the May Institute, as it was called,<br />
had grown to 75 students. Moody challenged<br />
Dryer to raise $250,000 to fund their ministry<br />
effort. The following years were difficult,<br />
as Moody was torn between his increasing<br />
evangelistic work and the growing Chicago<br />
school. When Moody considered shutting down<br />
the Chicago work, Dryer wrote to him, reminding<br />
Moody of his promise and urging him to return<br />
and finish the work they had begun. In 1887,<br />
Moody called a meeting to found the Chicago<br />
Evangelization Society, the school that would<br />
ultimately be renamed in his honor as the Moody<br />
Bible Institute.<br />
Emma Dryer was committed to urban<br />
ministry for the remainder of her life. She died<br />
on April 16, 1925, at the age of 90. A friend of<br />
the family wrote, “She was a lovely and gracious<br />
woman with a keen intellect and unusual gifts<br />
and ability, all consecrated to the service of Him,<br />
her Lord and Savior.” D.L. Moody called Emma<br />
Dryer “the best teacher of the Word of God in the<br />
United States.”
MBI CLASS OF 1895<br />
EDUCATOR<br />
Mary McLeod was born July 10, 1875,<br />
in Mayesvlle, NC. She was the fifteenth of<br />
seventeen children, but the first child born in<br />
freedom, and the first in her family to receive an<br />
education. Her parents recognized that Mary<br />
was unusually gifted, and were certain that<br />
she would accomplish much in her life. Mary’s<br />
primary education ended when she was twelve,<br />
and she prayed that God would provide for her<br />
to attend high school, which was not available<br />
in her hometown. Mary was honored to receive<br />
a scholarship to attend the prestigious Scotia<br />
Seminary, in Concord, NC. The donor was<br />
a young teacher in Denver, CO, Miss Mary<br />
Crissman, who was just eight years older than<br />
Mary McLeod.<br />
While at Scotia Seminary, Mary joined<br />
the Presbyterian Church, and sensed God’s<br />
calling to serve on the mission field in Africa.<br />
Missionaries often visited the seminary, and<br />
students were encouraged to consider overseas<br />
ministry. African Americans had been serving<br />
as Presbyterian missionaries in Africa for<br />
decades, and the fields were always seeking<br />
new missionary recruits, particularly young<br />
women<br />
Mary desired to gain more ministry training<br />
at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and Miss<br />
Crissman agreed to continue paying her<br />
scholarship. Mary, now 19, preached and sang<br />
to inmates in the local jail, and served at the<br />
Pacific Garden Mission. She also led the choir<br />
at the Bible Institute.<br />
Just months after arriving at Moody,<br />
Mary received devastating news from the<br />
Presbyterian Board of Missions—that she would<br />
NOT be appointed to the mission field. She<br />
knew that she had acquired more than enough<br />
education and practical ministry experience to<br />
meet their requirements; she also had excellent<br />
references from her pastor and various<br />
teachers. Mary expressed her disappointment<br />
in a letter to the Presbyterian Mission, but<br />
immediately made plans to invest her education<br />
and experience in black children living in the<br />
southern states.<br />
Mary McLeod Bethune became a<br />
renowned educator; she founded a college,<br />
and would serve as an advisor to President<br />
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Though her<br />
dream to serve as a missionary in Africa was<br />
disappointed, Mary McLeod Bethune used her<br />
Moody education and ministry training towards<br />
lasting and necessary contributions in the areas<br />
of education, social justice and race relations in<br />
America.
MBI CLASS OF 1902<br />
MISSIONARY<br />
TURKEY<br />
Susan Wealthy Orvis was born Dec 20,<br />
1873, in Atlanta, IL, the second of nine children<br />
born to Clarkson Finney and Mary Phelps Orvis.<br />
Soon after Susan’s birth, the family moved to<br />
rural Adams County, NE, where her father was<br />
a farmer. Susan graduated from Grinnel College<br />
(IA), in 1900, and attended Moody Bible Institute<br />
in 1902. In 1902, at age 38, she was appointed<br />
by the Women’s Board of Foreign Missions<br />
(Congregational) to Cesarea, Turkey, in 1902,<br />
to teach at a girls’ school in Talas.<br />
During World War I, Susan served with<br />
the Near East Relief Orphanages, in Gesaria,<br />
Turkey, and then Tiflis, Russia. She is credited<br />
with saving thousands of Armenian and Greek<br />
children during the Armenian Genocide. Orvis<br />
lived under harsh conditions, ministering to<br />
survivors living in refugee camps, including<br />
running a milk depot, to provide nourishment<br />
for 300 babies. For four years, Susan lived as<br />
a near prisoner under the hostile government;<br />
she constantly feared her deportment, which<br />
would leave thousands of Christian orphans to<br />
die of cruelty and starvation. In Sept 1922, the<br />
Turks invaded the Christian district of Smyrna,<br />
attacking people and destroying buildings.<br />
Thousands of Greeks and Armenians died.<br />
Susan raced to rescue as many children as<br />
possible. On the way, she met hundreds of<br />
starving adults and children, walking the 800k<br />
from Smyrna to Gesaria. Susan arranged to<br />
transport more than 3,000 orphans to safe<br />
countries, by covered wagon caravans across<br />
the mountains. Every one of the 3,000 children<br />
survived and was spared. Susan served thirty<br />
years as a missionary. She died Jan 10, 1941, in<br />
Earlville, IA, at the age of sixty-seven.
MBI CLASS OF 1916<br />
MISSIONARY NURSE<br />
LIBERIA<br />
Ruth Elizabeth Occomy was the first<br />
of seven children born to Walter and Nellie<br />
Occomy, whose families numbered among the<br />
oldest African American and Native American<br />
(Narragansett) families in Rhode Island. The<br />
name Occomy is believed to be a variation on<br />
the name of a notable early Native American<br />
evangelist-preacher, Samson Occom.<br />
Ruth attended Moody Bible Institute from<br />
January 1915 to April 1916; she then earned a<br />
nursing degree (RN) at Lincoln Hospital School<br />
of Nursing, in New York City, in 1921. She was<br />
appointed to the Henry Street Visiting Nurse<br />
Service, a renowned and early system of<br />
public health nursing, which focused on helping<br />
communities to improve living conditions,<br />
affirming human worth and dignity. In 1920-<br />
21, Ruth furthered her studies at Columbia<br />
University Teachers College, gaining proficiency<br />
in education and public health nursing. She<br />
then relocated to Charleston, West Virginia, to<br />
serve as Field Advisory Nurse for the Division<br />
of Child Hygiene and Public Health, from 1924<br />
to 1927. Ruth worked closely with churches<br />
and local service agencies in the community,<br />
offering recommendations regarding clean<br />
water, sanitation, nutrition, and infant care. She<br />
became nationally known as a maternity and<br />
child specialist.<br />
In early 1928, Ruth accompanied Dr.<br />
Pauline Dinkins to the Baptist Mission in<br />
Monrovia, Liberia, where the National Baptist<br />
Convention Women’s Auxiliary had established<br />
the Carrie V. Dyer Hospital. Ruth applied her<br />
professional experience in community healthcare<br />
by developing a nurses training program, and<br />
enlisting young Liberian women to improve and<br />
promote healthcare. Ruth was evacuated for<br />
medical leave in 1930, but returned to Liberia<br />
for a second term. She eventually returned to<br />
the US, and continued her nursing career until<br />
her death on February 28, 1945, in Providence,<br />
Rhode Island.
MBI CLASS OF 1916<br />
MISSIONARY<br />
CHINA<br />
Helena Waterman was born April 23, 1877<br />
in Fountain City, Wisconsin. Her grandfather, Dr.<br />
Sigismund Waterman, had been the first Jewish<br />
doctor to graduate from Yale, and the first known<br />
Jewish professor at Yale. The Waterman family<br />
was prominent in both New Haven and New York<br />
City in the mid-19th century. Helena’s father, Dr.<br />
Moses W. Waterman, was raised and educated in<br />
New York City, but migrated to the midwest in the<br />
early 1870s, establishing his family in Wisconsin.<br />
He was absent during much of Helena’s early<br />
childhood, serving for many years as Deputy<br />
Coroner in New York City. The Waterman family<br />
moved Chicago in the mid-1890s, where Helena<br />
studied music under Emil Liebling, Louis Falk,<br />
Fredrick Gleason, Maude Peck and Anthony<br />
Stankowitz, among others (1895-1907). An<br />
accomplished pianist, she gave music lessons<br />
out of her private studio (1897-1911), and later<br />
taught music at Northland College, in Ashland,<br />
WI (1911-1913). Helena was in her late thirties<br />
when she enrolled at Moody Bible Institute,<br />
in September 1914. At that time, she was<br />
also teaching classes at the Chicago Hebrew<br />
Mission. The two institutions worked closely<br />
together, and jointly prepared Jewish evangelists<br />
and prospective missionaries. Helena’s desire<br />
was to serve in overseas missions. She was<br />
appointed in October 1916 to the South China<br />
Boat Mission, founded five years earlier by<br />
Florence and Edward Drew, both Moody<br />
graduates. From 1916 to 1919, Helena lived<br />
on a boat, evangelizing and ministering among<br />
the poor and ostracized “boat people” living in<br />
Canton harbor. She would later teach music<br />
at the Pui To Academy and Canton Christian<br />
College (now Lignan University, Guangzhou).<br />
In 1921, Helena returned to Chicago, where she<br />
resumed teaching piano from her studio, into<br />
her sixties. She died in Chicago, May 1956.
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MBI CLASS OF 1894<br />
MISSIONARY<br />
CHINA<br />
Eleanor Chesnut was born on January<br />
8, 1868, in Waterloo, Iowa. Eleanor and her<br />
twin brother, James, were the youngest of four<br />
children. Their father was born in Ireland, and<br />
their mother was from the Isle of Man, and were<br />
both young immigrants to America. Shortly after<br />
the twins’ birth, Mr. Chesnut disappeared and<br />
never returned. Their mother washed and ironed<br />
to support her young family, but also died in 1872,<br />
when Eleanor was four. Eleanor was informally<br />
adopted by neighbors, while her three brothers<br />
went to live with various relatives. Her childhood<br />
was lonely and bitter, but she was a studious<br />
child. At twelve, Eleanor went to live with an<br />
aunt in rural Missouri. Though desperately poor,<br />
Eleanor wrote to the president of Park College to<br />
negotiate for her acceptance. Eleanor worked<br />
year-round to support herself in college, though<br />
she was physically weak and undernourished.<br />
She deeply resented her poverty and humiliation,<br />
yet this suffering would prepare her for ministry<br />
among the poor and outcast. While a student,<br />
Eleanor received Christ as Saviour, and<br />
sensed a desire for mission work. She left Park<br />
College in 1888, and went to study medicine<br />
at the Women’s Medical College in Chicago.<br />
She would also study nursing at the Training<br />
School for Nurses, in Chicago. At one point,<br />
she was the private nurse to Dr. Oliver Wendell<br />
Holmes. She also served as Assistant Resident<br />
physician at the Women’s Reformatory, in South<br />
Framingham, MA. In 1893, she received her<br />
missionary appointment with the Presbyterian<br />
Board of Missions. She studied at Moody Bible<br />
Institute, May-August 1894, and then sailed for<br />
China as a medical missionary, in October 1894.<br />
Dr. Chesnut treated many Chinese patients in<br />
Lien-chou, but hoped to build a hospital for the<br />
treatment of women. During a furlough in the<br />
US, in 1902, she did further medical study, gave<br />
missionary addresses, and raised money for the<br />
chapel construction at Lien-chou. She returned<br />
to China in 1903, hoping to expand the medical<br />
work to other towns. In late October 1905, Dr.<br />
Chesnut and several other missionaries were<br />
attacked by a mob. She was beaten, stabbed<br />
and drown. Just prior to her murder, Dr. Chesnut<br />
treated her last “patient” when she bandaged the<br />
head wound of a young boy, using part the dress<br />
she was wearing.
MBI CLASS OF 1908<br />
MISSIONARY<br />
KENYA &<br />
BELGIAN CONGO<br />
(Florence) Alma Newberry was born Dec<br />
3, 1879, to Joseph and Sophronia Clement<br />
Newberry, in Louisville, Nebraska. When she<br />
was thirteen, Florence went to live with her aunt<br />
and grandmother in La Moille, IL, where she<br />
would remain for ten years. At twenty-one, she<br />
was teacher in a local school.<br />
Between 1902 and 1907, Alma received her<br />
medical training at the Chicago Homeopathic<br />
Medical College and at Hahnemann Hospital,<br />
enduring much ridicule from male medical<br />
students. She practiced medicine in Chicago<br />
for two years, and ministered at the Foundling<br />
Home. She attended Moody Bible Institute in<br />
the summer of 1908. That same year, at age<br />
28, Alma was appointed as missionary physician<br />
by African Inland Mission, sailing on October<br />
29, 1908. Her assignment was in Kijabe, British<br />
East Africa (Kenya). There, she met fellow<br />
missionary, James Gribble. The two were wed<br />
on the mission field and continued to serve there<br />
until 1913. Their daughter, Marguerite, was born<br />
in Chicago, in 1915.<br />
The Gribbles resigned from A.I.M.,<br />
And would thereafter serve with the Foreign<br />
Missionary Society of the Brethren. They founded<br />
the Brethren mission at Oubangi-Shari in Congo.<br />
Alma opened four dispensaries, and was the<br />
mission’s only doctor until 1937. In addition to<br />
her medical work, Alma taught in the mission<br />
school, served as housemother to missionary<br />
children, evangelized in the surrounding villages<br />
and was involved in literature ministries.<br />
Alma died at Bellevue, Bangui, French<br />
Equatorial Africa, on March 31, 1942, at age 62.
MBI CLASS OF 1895<br />
MISSIONARY<br />
INDIA<br />
Alice Minerva King was born November 11,<br />
1871, to Daniel and Mary King, members of the<br />
Brethren community in Laketon, Indiana. Alice<br />
studied for ministry at Mount Morris College and<br />
Moody Bible Institute (1895). She later met<br />
Adam Ebey at Manchester College, where she<br />
was young faculty member, and he was an older<br />
student. Both were appointed in 1900 to serve<br />
with the Brethren Mission in India. They wed on<br />
September 5, and left the next day for New York.<br />
They then sailed for India, arriving in Bombay<br />
harbor on October 19, 1900. A final train journey<br />
of 125 miles brought them Bulsar, where they<br />
would study the local dialect.<br />
The Ebeys were involved in orphan care,<br />
education and discipleship ministries. In 1902,<br />
they welcomed a baby boy, then relocated to<br />
Dahanu, an area hostile to Christianity; having<br />
a child, however, opened doors to friendship in<br />
the community. In 1904, they added a baby girl,<br />
and in 1905, another son. After nine months,<br />
their baby died of malaria. The family moved to<br />
Karadoho, where their 2-year-old daughter and<br />
4-year-old son both died of typhoid fever. Two<br />
months later, Alice gave birth to a girl, who died<br />
within a week. The Ebeys had lost all four children<br />
within nine months. During their furlough in the<br />
US, Alice taught at Manchester College, while<br />
Adam visited churches and spoke of their work<br />
in India. They welcomed another baby boy, who<br />
died within three weeks.<br />
Back in India, Adam Ebey’s ministry was<br />
primarily in medical care, while Alice discipled<br />
women and children. Though he lacked formal<br />
medical training, Adam treated thousands of<br />
patients each year, which opened the way for<br />
other ministries. The Ebeys welcomed three<br />
more daughters, though one died of diphtheria<br />
at age two. Their remaining two daughters lived<br />
well into adulthood.<br />
The Ebeys served thirty years in India<br />
before retiring in the US. Alice continued to teach<br />
well into her old age, and outlived her husband<br />
by twenty years. She died in Elkhart, IN, at the<br />
age of 88, in 1960.
MBI CLASS OF 1908<br />
MISSIONARY<br />
CHINA<br />
Alma Favors was born January 24, 1879,<br />
in Comanche, Texas. She was the fourth of ten<br />
children born to John and Madeline Favors,<br />
who were farmers. The family moved to Fresno,<br />
CA, around 1888, and Alma’s mother died of a<br />
heart attack when Alma was ten.<br />
Alma studied nursing and did her practical<br />
training at the McNutt Hospital in San Francisco,<br />
CA, in 1900. She was appointed missionary<br />
by the Disciples of Christ, and was their first<br />
missionary nurse to be sent to China, in 1903.<br />
Alma attended Moody Bible Institute<br />
during the spring of 1908, while she was on<br />
furlough in America. She then served a second<br />
term, taking charge of the work at the mission<br />
hospital, at Luchowfu, China. Alma realized<br />
she preferred evangelistic work to nursing,<br />
and changed her focus to women’s work, at<br />
Luchowfu. She had developed a remarkable<br />
women’s ministry there by the time she left for<br />
furlough in 1914.<br />
Alma met Clifford Henry Plopper in 1913.<br />
When he joined the Disciples of Christ Mission<br />
in China. They married in Yokohama, Japan,<br />
in January 1915, and served together at<br />
Nantungchow for two years, and then Wuhu.<br />
The Ploppers would continue to serve in China<br />
until 1948. They lived for a time in Lexington,<br />
Kentucky, where Clifford was a professor at the<br />
Transylvania Bible School. They then moved to<br />
Fresno, California, where Alma died on March<br />
12, 1959, at the age of eighty.
MBI CLASS OF 1918<br />
MISSIONARY<br />
KOREA &<br />
NAVAJO<br />
Faye Edgerton was born March 26, 1889,<br />
the youngest of three children born to Gordon<br />
and Elva Edgerton, in rural Hastings, NE. After<br />
high school, she taught piano, and was expected<br />
to eventually take over her father’s farming<br />
supply business. A bout of scarlet fever left her<br />
deaf for a time, but when her hearing suddenly<br />
returned, Faye was spiritually transformed.<br />
Soon after, an evangelistic group from Moody<br />
Bible Institute performed at her church. Faye<br />
was impressed with their theology and excellent<br />
music, and made the decision to attend Moody to<br />
train for Christian ministry.<br />
After graduating MBI in 1918, Faye was<br />
appointed by the Presbyterian Board to serve<br />
in Korea, where she would give Bible training to<br />
more than a thousand Korean women at a time.<br />
Her health declined over four years, and the<br />
Presbyterian Board sent her home to recuperate.<br />
In 1924, Faye was reassigned to serve with<br />
the Navajo people in American southwest, where<br />
the dry climate would be better for her health.<br />
She grew to love the Navajo as much as she<br />
had the Koreans. She and her Navajo assistant,<br />
Grace, opened a remote mission outpost called<br />
“Cornfields,” where they engaged in evangelism,<br />
discipleship, teaching, counseling and basic<br />
medical care.<br />
Faye was troubled that the mission favored<br />
the English language, and believed that the<br />
Navajo Christians would thrive if they could<br />
use their own language. She joined a mission<br />
initiative to train Navajo church leaders. In the<br />
decade Faye taught at the school, Faye noted<br />
that the little Scripture available in Navajo<br />
was translated poorly by missionaries without<br />
linguistics training.<br />
In 1944, she joined Wycliffe Bible<br />
Translators, to fully consecrate herself to<br />
language learning and Bible translation. She<br />
would later assist with the translation of the New<br />
Testament into Apache, as well as an Eskimo<br />
dialect.<br />
Faye continued her translation work<br />
well into her seventies. A sudden stroke, in<br />
December 1967, left her weak and exhausted,<br />
and in March of 1968, Faye died of heart failure.
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MBI CLASS OF 1916<br />
MISSIONARY<br />
ASIA & US<br />
(Margaret) Hie Ding Lin was born March<br />
17, 1890, most likely in Fujian, China. Her<br />
parents, Rev. Mik Sing Lin and Siong Ung were<br />
Christians, and were well-educated. Margaret,<br />
herself, graduated from Fuzhou College in 1907,<br />
and chose to seek medical training in the United<br />
States. At the time, severe restrictions made it<br />
difficult for Chinese women to enter the U.S.,<br />
even as students. Margaret is said to have<br />
disguised herself as a male in order to expedite<br />
her entry into the US! She enrolled at University<br />
of Chicago in 1910, and graduated with a medical<br />
degree in 1915. She then interned at the Mary<br />
Thompson Hospital of Chicago for Women and<br />
Children. During her student years, Margaret<br />
experienced racial discrimination common<br />
to Chinese immigrants in Chicago. At that<br />
time, Chinese immigrant physicians and other<br />
professionals were not given license to practice<br />
in the United States.<br />
When Margaret arrived at Moody Bible<br />
Institute in the fall of 1916, she was twentysix<br />
years old, and a trained physician. She<br />
returned to China in 1917, first serving as<br />
medical supervisor in the Fujian Industrial School<br />
and Orphanage; she later helped to establish the<br />
Fujian General hospital, where she was head of<br />
surgery. Margaret’s tenure as hospital president,<br />
and as one of the editors of the China Medical<br />
Journal, was notable in male-dominated Chinese<br />
society. Returning to Chicago in 1941, Margaret<br />
worked as an assistant in surgery at a hospital<br />
on Navy Pier. After three years, she began<br />
community-based medical practice in Chicago’s<br />
Chinatown. For many years, she would serve<br />
Chinatown patients on weekends, while also<br />
serving geriatric and tuberculosis patients in Oak<br />
Park, on weekdays.<br />
Margaret was well-known figure in<br />
Chinatown, with her vibrant personality, bright<br />
clothing and big hats. She died in June 1973, in<br />
Oak Park, IL, at the age of eighty-three.
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