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daughters at James River
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Great Grandma Braswell.
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we didn’t see at Thanksgiving.

In addition to all the normal holiday events, we will be

celebrating the 50th wedding anniversary of Jackie’s
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just adds to the long list of things we have to be thankful
¯°®±³²´®Qµ¶7µ for. We’re grateful for God’s blessing on all our family,
His protection in all our travels, having about 80% of our Mungu Ibariki Afrika is the
support raised—and protection from serious injury in title and first line of the Tan-
Please pray with us for the touch football game after Thanksgiving dinner! zanian national anthem.
continued protection as Mungu is the Most High God,
we travel. We’re also thankful to our friends, family, and support- the creator. Ibariki is a form
ing churches for all the help and support you’ve given us of the verb “bless.” The Tan-
Please continue to pray in 2003! We now know what Paul was talking about zanian anthem is a prayer for
that Jackie would finish when he wrote to the Philippians, “I thank my God every God’s blessing.
well on her Master’s with- time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always
out too much stress. pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the The last line of the song is a
first day until now…” Thanks for helping us! May God bless prayer we’re learning to pray
Please pray that we would in Swahili, and we ask you to
be able to minister power- 

 
   
your holiday season. As for us, we just keep thinking…
join with us: Tubariki watoto
fully while itinerating. wa Tanzania. In English:
“Bless the children of Tanza-
nia.”

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