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ICA, Peru (BP)--The answer to a 10-year pursuit was revealed in a moment for Spanish teacher Rachel Colonna.
She knew God was calling her to do mission work in southern Peru -? her husband Luis' native country -- but she didn't know how to begin. But when she and Luis began attending Life Church in Mandeville, La., in 2002, it became evident that God was showing her the way.
Since 2003, the nine-year-old Life Church has been part of the International Mission Board's Rapid Entry Advance Plan (REAP) in southern Peru. REAP encourages stateside partners -- known as strategy coordinator churches -- to plant indigenous, self-sufficient bodies of believers among specific people groups. As a strategy coordinator church for the Candarave segment of southern Aymara, Life Church has helped plant more than 20 churches and mobilized them to start others in the South American country.
"When we launched our international missions project in Peru," lead pastor Paul Smith said, "we unfurled a Peruvian flag ..."
BALTIMORE (BP)--During a summer in which Batman is back at the box office saving Gotham City, citizens of Baltimore -- number three on the list of most violent large cities in the United States -- may be looking for a real-life rescue.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--It's no secret that the homosexual community forms part of Barack Obama's base, and a new Harris Interactive poll shows the presumptive Democratic nominee holding a 46-point lead over Republican John McCain among that group.
WASHINGTON (BP)--Four television ministries still have refused to comply fully with a U.S. Senate committee's probe into their financial records nearly nine months after first being asked.
GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)--The Centrifuge camp began with a bang -? literally.
Thunder shook the mountains surrounding the LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center near Santa Fe, N.M., as students, chaperones and leaders ventured into the rain ...
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--In the first column in this series I said that we can come to terms with Jesus' claims to being the only way to salvation by answering three rudimentary questions.
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They just want the freedom to travel and access to the tech touchstones of their generation: iPods, Facebook, and text messages.
Yoani Sanchez won the Spanish equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, but her government wouldn't allow her to leave the country to receive it.
About $1 billion is needed over three years, according to a new assessment. But the junta's lack of reform is raising doubts about long-term assistance.
The prime minister faces intense pressure for change after his party lost in a once-safe Scottish constituency.
A census of those living in some 700 often-squalid camps across the country, often blamed for much of Italy's crime, has raised comparisons to Fascist times.
A government critic's collection includes Bibles, books by Cuban defectors, and positive biographies about Fidel Castro.
Only a handful of political activists are willing to risk fighting for basic freedoms. But more ordinary Cubans, they say, are asking how to get involved.
July's storms bolster forecasts for a very active year.
The country produces top contestants in the Francophone World Championships, taking place in the country this week
Rising prices and a falling stock market have sparked protests in recent weeks, increasing the pressure on a government already facing militancy, political discord.
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