On Mission highlights the work of missionaries and on mission Christians throughout North America who are impacting their world for Christ.

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Richard Harris

EDITOR

Carol Pipes

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Adam Miller

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Features

10 FINDING GOD ON THE CORNER by Jami Becher

Most any day you can fi nd Eric Watkins out on the streets of Memphis. “I came off the streets,” he says. He’s out there again, sharing the love of Christ one street, one house and one person at a time with Hope 4 Memphis.

28 A HAVEN IN THE BRONX by Carol Pipes

Missionary Andrew Mann and his trained dog Proof bless

the Bronx through after-school programs and a ministry of presence to kids living in a tough neighborhood.

Cover Section

16 GET OUT OF YOUR CHAIR AND SHARE

by Jolene Evans

Sixteen-year-old Anna Megli of Nash, Oklahoma, will share the gospel with anyone she meets. “I just look around and realize there are lots of people who aren’t going to heaven, because they don’t know the truth. Who’s going to tell them? I realized it has to be me.”

22 PARACHUTE PROJECT by Ann-Margret Hovsepian

When a chance at a Los Angeles mission project dropped

into their lives, these six Appalachian State University students pioneered a new way of reaching a community through The Parachute Project.

26 CHOPSTICKS AND SURFBOARDS

by Meredith Brunson

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