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• Promises fulfilled: IMB, churches & 27 missionaries

  by Julie McGowan , posted Friday, August 26, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- With white knuckles, Laekan Carter gripped the pew. She listened with her then-11-year-old ears when a college student shared how God was at work while he was on mission in Africa.

  "One day you will walk those dusty dirt roads," Carter felt God promise her.

  Years later, in fulfillment of that promise, Carter is being sent by her church, Calvary Baptist in New Orleans, to train college students to share the Gospel in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read More