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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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ON MISSION TOGETHER FOR KINGDOM GROWTH The North American Mission Board assists Southern Baptists in their task of fulfilling the Great Commission in the U.S., Canada, and their territories through a North American strategy for sharing Christ, starting churches, and sending missionaries in cooperation with our Acts 1:8 partners.


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12 REACHING LAREDO FAMILY BY FAMILY By Mickey Noah The enemy is present and the threat is real in Laredo, Texas,


where Chuy and Maria Avila make Christ known to Hispanics amid the bustle of the drug trade.


16 HARVEST IN THE HEARTLAND By Mickey Noah 20 LOVE IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE By Mickey Noah 24 PENNIES FOR ANNIE By Mickey Noah


For the last 12 years, Doug Lee has served as director of missions for the vast Oregan Trail Baptist Association, based in North Platte, Nebraska.


Yearly, thousands of immigrants come to the Atlanta metro area— fleeing poverty, famine, disease, civil war and persecution. If Paulette DeHart has her way, they’ll learn English and meet Jesus Christ.


In 1995, Tom Polak began serving as director of the Metro Baptist Center in the inner-city, and as pastor of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship. He found an unexpected blessing in a 62-year-old homeless man named Robert Maul.


28 LIGHTING THE DARKNESS IN QUEBEC By Ann-Margret Hovsepian


Jacques Avakian is working to start a church planting center in Montreal that would train and send out church planters through- out Quebec.


32 PASSAGE TO HOPE By Mickey Noah


It’s the sad plight of the refugees from Burma (Myanmar)—the “Karen” people—that especially tugs at Howard and Tina Burkhart. “When you hear their stories, it’s hard to fathom when they say, ‘we woke up to hear bombs and bullets and we fled with nothing.”


36 SHEPHERDING NEW MEXICO By Mickey Noah


When he’s not planting new churches, Jim Turnbo is a loving gardener tending established churches, ensuring their continued healthy growth.


40 ‘MISS VICKIE’ A ROLE MODEL AT MSU By Laura Sikes Reaching students is what Vickie Stewart is passionate about.


Simply known as “Miss Vickie,” she energetically moves around campus of Morgan State University in Baltimore on mission “to connect,” as she puts it, with students whenever she can.


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