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“Becoming An Acts 1:8 Church” (Acts 1:8 sermon)

Posted on 2020/01/20 by Shawn Thomas

(Preached at First Baptist Church, Angleton, TX Missions Conference   1/19/20) In the 1800’s Hudson Taylor was called by God to go to China, where he spent 51 years as a missionary and founded the Inland China Mission, which ended up … Continue reading →

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