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O U T R E A C H I N T E R N AT I O N A LA N D Y O U T H E D U C AT I O N A L S E RV I C E S

P O B o x 9 5 2 BEDFORD TX 7 6 0 9 5

Greetings in the njiino ofour Ijord ;i,nd Sa vior JsiisClirlst. Wo are liappyto report that everyone is doing well, at least we are feeling well. Mywhite blood cell count is down to ahoiit hall of the mininuiin that i tshould he. The doctoi s are adjusting the medications and we hope andpray that it will take ca re of the problem. Crystal is getting over an earinfection hut seems to be doing OK. Otluu- than your normal winter colds,flu s etc. we have been doing good. We praise God for the health that wehave .and for the oppoitunity we h.ave to go through h.ard days and easydays. We can also thaidc the Lord for having more easy days than tougho n s

We had a good time at diristmas and New Ye:u-s with dad, mom, Sonja,,Karen, Toai, jnid Jonny. A fun tiiru; was h.ad by all. Slieila. had not seenher family in Casp >r Wyoming for piite some time, so in J.anuary, herand Ciystal went up to spend week with lavi himily. They both enjoyedthat too. I did not go with them since I was still getting over getting sickin Novenihr. Sonja caiiK^ and stayed with me dining that week in case 1decided to catch something and neiHled to he taken to the liospital. Sonjaand I were able to get a lot of work done. Bveryom^ in Bethel is fine.

Outrejich I nt er na tion al and Youth Educational services are looldng forsix tecachcj-s of English to go and join the teaiu in Bankok Thailand andte


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Pete t£ Fran Laughren began work in South Africa as members of OutreachInternational September 1, 1985. They are now In a new area ofSouth Africa as ofth e Fa l l 997

Jonathan Hamilton an d his wife, Shei la are Directors of Recruitment forOutreach International. Jonathan has serwed 5 years in mission work in Africa, and1 year in Hungary. They now live in Bedford, Texas directing inteniews andorientations for new mission workers. In April of 1997 Jonathan received a doublelung transplant by the grace of God he will be available for camps and speakingengaaements in the summer of 1998.

Sonja Hamilton has worked in Uganda East Africa), China, Hungary andVietnam, She is a TESL teacher and has been the team leader for new studentworkers for Hungary, China and Vietnam, She is now the Director and OfficeManager for Outreach International in Bethel, Missouri.

Karen Hamilton Sguyen worked in Uganda, East Africa and received hermission training there. She then was a pioneer worker for China as a studentworker. Karen has helped start new work as a team member and has finishedcourses in linguistics at SIL in Dallas, Texas. She speaks Mandarin Chinese andVietnamese fluentlv. In 1995 while serving as a teacher of English in Vietnam, shehelped lead Toai Sguyen to the Lord and married him. Toai Karen Sguyen arecurrently in the USA recruiting and raising support to return Vietnam asTeachers of English.

George Connie Keralis are currently involved in Preacher Teacher

traininc^ for the new church leaders in Russia. They are training the local church® t • •leaders in Bible and helping them in evangelism as well. They have been working inR u ss ia s i nc e 994

Glenn Sherri Capps are teaching English as a Second Language in Asia.They have begun their third year of work in Asia. They continue to need fellowworkers to be in their university as student workers and teachers ofEnglish.

In 1996 a survey trip to Bangkok, Thailand brought about an opportunity toTeach English as a Second Language in a Christian School run by a ThaiAdministration Wattana Wittaya Academy). This opportunity is unique as itprovides a salary and living quarters to the teachers of English. The first team ofteachers went in May 1997 and Outreach International/Youth Educational Ser\ iceshas been asked to provide teachers every year

In February 1997 a survey trip to Myanmar Burma), in response to a requestfrom the Myanmar Bible Institute in MayMo/Pyn Oo Lwin, brought about anopportunity for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In October 1997 CalebPlumb returned to Mvanmar to teach English as a Second Language at the Bible

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Institute so that th e students would be able to o bt ai n j ob s a nd support themselves asministers and teachers of the Gospel of Christ. Th e Bible Institute has a standingrequests for teachers of English.

In October of \991^ Stacy Garner joined th e volunteer staff of OutreachInternational under Gateway International Educational Services to recruit fo rmission work in the Bible colleges and university Campus Ministries.

Larry Smith continues to lead summer internships to UgandOt East Africa - awork that began through Outreach International in 1982.

Outreach International's main sponsoring churches are Highland MeadowsChristian Church in Colle}TiIIe, Texas; Monrovia Christian Church in Monrovia,Indiana; Marlelle Christian Church in Ma' rtelle, Iowa. OtHeT bfefh~ern shareprayers and financial participation, bearing frui t to their account to the Lord. Oursenior consultants are Floyd E. Clark of Creswell, N C and Cyril Simkins ofLincoln Illionois. Al Hamilton is th e C EO a nd Inte rn atio na l Director of th emission John O. Schofield and Greg Stephens are Executive Directors. We praisethe Lord that new recruits and new fields are given to this work every year. To Godbe the Glory We pray that more workers will begoing this year into the har est

Ol TREA C H I S T E Ry A TIONALP O O X 7 2

BE T HE L MISSOURI 63434

(660)284-6528

FAX: (660)284-6256E-MAIL: 102476.3367@compuserv'e.com


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O U T RE A CH INTERNATIONAL

1 Corinthians 4:1,7

In 1977 Outreach International was incorporated in Dallas Texas at BedfordChristian Church (now Highland Meadows Christian Church). I t was established k Missionary; Motivation Ministry by-M.^n.d Annette Hamilton who had bejen .m•fission .work since. 1960 }^Throughfi.thê:yeairsy it has been a ^vehicle or̂ tpQl forseafching out unreached countries or. arej^ of the world, whene the IndependentChristian Churches an d Churches of Christ had no t been working, qr where .thefiamiltons felt there was still great need. This mission was designed for th e purposeof recruiting workers for and discovering opportunities in needy areas of the world.Th e name of Outreach International was suggested by John O. Schofleld whoworked closely with the Hamiltons along with David Pet ti t who died in December1990. David an d A1 worked in rec ru itment and resea rch as well as conductingmission internships from 1978 until A1 and family went to Uganda, East Africa to

Jîn^new wrk. i^ny other^have ben a part of this mission work in going-asmissionaries, or in supporting the ministryTn^rayer~and finances. Many peoplehave done both. Bu t the work began with the burden of the Lord upon these three

m en : P et ti t, Schofleld a n d Ha m il to n .

One area of special emphasis began in 1987when Wing Wong, missionary toHong Kong came to A1 Hamilton and asked for help in starting internships in hispart of the world. Wing invited A1 over to Hong Kong as a consultant to look at thearea. Outreach International agreed to send a small team to work in that part of theworld, and this team was led by A1 and Annette s t\vo younger daughters, Sonja andKaren, both worked in UgaOrda^reviously. „

This was th e beginning of the approach now used: that of sending collegestudents to foreign countries as students of Language/Cul ture and Teachers ofEnglish to do missionary work. The f ir st team was followed by others who nowstiil are serving in China, and God has blessed this approach and effort with fruit. Aholise church type ministry is now continuing in areas where there was no completeNew Testament message being preached. Because of this success, a further workwas s ta rt ed by student s going to Hungary in 1990. That area is now ser\ ed by ateam of workers tbat was^ a part of the original pioneer team. In 1994 a team„of-students/teachers of English were able to enter Vietnam as Teachers of English.Teachers ar e sent every year to continue on with that work, along with the countriesof Thailand and Myanmar (Burma) in 1997.

O ut re ac h I nt er na ti on al has been involved in th e survey work an drecruitment of workers for ministry in several parts of the world: East Africa andSouth Africa, th e South Pacific, i a Hungary,.So.utheast Asia, \yith other areas

:un.êr jdeyelopment Lord willingJames Proverbs. 16:9). We wÛl noJ; reportin tkisaiiticiewfiat^yejhayeseen^djdojthrpugbithis ministiy5^ A^^14:^7 op iry torehearse, what Gpd has done through the -̂vpepple; associajted.withrthjsf̂ issioq.- Jûtth e present work of theJLord that is, of great ijmportance. to th e .New Jestamesnt.Church, is what the Lord has shown.us since 1984. This is th e effective use of youngmissionary workers. Since 1978, .when internships with college age people, werestarted with th e Bedford Christian Church in Bedford Texas (Dallas area), thismission has seen how God used and trained, at the same time, young workers for


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missionary ministry. With the advice and counsel of men like Cyril Simkins, Floyd ;£. Clark (men with years of mission experience and spiritual leadership skills) andmany others, the Lord provided the necessary guidance and motivation that wasfundamental to this approach to missions.

' Through the experiences and work of the recent years, we have learned thata different missionary rising to meet the needis of'the hour in the decade ofmissibns . The taission^ry needed ^biecad^^^ itself is

different: i.e. in'years past, the people of the world's widely diverse countries alllived id their own culture and land areas. Japanese lived in Japan» Chinese lived inChina Africans lived in Africa etc. BUT today we have a different world.Everybody lives in everybody else's back yard. There ar e no longer boundaries inthis changing and very different world. There must be a strategy for missions thatwill meet the needs of unreached people groups. To fulfill th e Great Commission, wemust send as many people as we can to as many places as they can go In a timewhen professional missionaries are not welcome or wanted in many parts of theworM, we haye s.een it not only-advisable,^biit nec^sary for-the-chu^Jch to-send tentniakers : people of various skills to do the church planting which in the past wasdone solely by the educated (Seminary trained) missionary. This is still effective insome places, but we cannot reach the entire world by depending upon this methodalone. It has been ou r experience to see God use the different missionary , forreaching some of this different world ,

, The NEW Missionary being added to the work of world evangelism can beexpected to be seen in the following role (and this, role has been the emphasis ofOutreachfInternational): .. ; .k -

1. He/She will be single2 . H e / Sh e wil l b e a t ea m m e mb er .

3. He/She will be a short terra worker (one year or more).4. He/She will be less expensive to support.5 . H e / S h e will b e m o re in formed.

EXPLANATION :

i'upouT^ Etwas~-tiixraght that^only married personnel could be effective for the foreign field. Bu t thehistory of missions from earlier years shows that this is no t necessarilyso. Today we have seen teams of college age people start churches,hold Bible studies and help lead other students or even adults of their

own sex to Chr is t and help th e ne w Christian learn to worship an dwitness for the Lord. I t is going on in many places with success. Mostoften in our work, the single person is a student, or is on student status

; In: th e foreign country.-There are obviously mady advantages to this.We have seen students in the foreign land.^; Many countries wantstudents from America in their colleges.

2. Th e new or different missionary is a team member. He or sheworks as part of a team of 5 to 7 others. Outreach International has


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had as many as 9). Even 3 to 7 can work together in ministry and bet h e C h u r c h

.3. The new worker is ^hnrt term. This means that for one year, the-student, missionary studies only,jfh,e, language (and sometimes, the:,culture) in the foreign. count^,.but has Access to hundreds of othe^^students and the contact with families of their new found, friends in the .. . .country in which they work/studyand live. In one year, a student i n , •get a good conversational grasp of the language, and by dependingupon fellow classmates (new found friends in the school they areattending), the Christian student sharesthe Gospel ofChrist and gainsa knowledge of language and culture as well. Upon returning fromthe oneyear commitment, otherstudent workers coming in will followup these contacts.

4. This new missionary w///not need topurchase expensive vehicles, ora house fo r a family. Our teams of students serving abroad, havenever had to purchase a car or a truck, although some have boughtbicycles. This does not mean that those items are not useful to the oldmethod of mission work still going on today, it is simply not necessary.for the student worker. This is not a comparison in value of work^ butto explain the advantage of using student workers to reach countrieswhere the missionary of the church as we normally think of hfm, willnot be welcome oF-aHowedr-Our-student^tearaiiicUibers usTiailyli^dn600 pe r month income.

As we said, this is not said to suggest that we stop doing what we aredoing, but to help our churches today understand the value of theworker for the Lord , who was no t used or considered as a missionaryworker in years pas t

5 . H e o r s ii e w il l be nrmorg^/i T h i s m e a i M t h a t o w ^

youth today who go to another country, have a greater awareness ofworld conditions than those of us who went ou t 30 years ago. With th einformation age in full swing, we can see that college age people havebecome more informed on political, social an d basic world conditions.

This canwork

toth e

church s advantage.We ca n

now sendou t

s tudents who are Christians who will be informed on th e needs of.people in the country to which they go, and be quite competent to live

: .inithe student.environment and be accepted .when older persons may: not be accepted, or as readilj^received; ;/ , ; - /

Outreach International wants the churches of America to be ready to supportand send these single, team-member, short-term, student status workers. Ourresearch and present field work clearly indicates that this type of missionary workeris welcome in many countries which are definitely not open to religious missionaries.

I t is also obvious, we believe, that a fter one year on th e assignment as a missionary


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in this role, the worker comes back prepared to work with foreign languages andcultures hjere in the U.S. Something our churches are sadly uninvolved in for themost part. If the Decade of Missions is to find success, if this emphasis is to be asmeaningful and as far reaching as it possibly can, with the guidance of the Lord,thieh we mtfst use every person that we can^ not making requirements where theScmptures 'lise none. If we are to speak where the Scriptures speaks and be siientSvh ef e'the ScriptuFes 'are^ îlertt,'then'iet-%' pTaetiee-''if by^ on^peoplet̂haf-ate^hdf-put there by the Lt^rds-'If we believe'that^itk^ RSENT thht allUnreached people be'reached'with the Gospel of Christ, and if we believe thatleading someone td-Christ and helping them walk with the Lord Is really what ourcommission is all about, accepting this method of outreach will be one simple way toprove i t Our work is urgent, and God can use those whom He has called, lets givethem a chance, meaning a college degree should no t be seen as a prerequisite fors e r v i c e .

For^us, the question is not, which country does Putreach international workin? , bu t which world? The answer is world . There ar e still manycountries with colleges and universities where American students are welcome. O ur

appeal to students is: take one year for missionary work and study overseas as partof a mission team. The cost of tuition in the foreign country will likely be much lessthan you spend in the USA, and the opportunity to share the Gospel of Christ will begreater than you may have found by staying at home. We have enough Christianstudents in America to reach 100 countries where there are students wafling toknow th e wa y of th e Lord. May the Church and Chr is ti an young people rise to thedecasion. We_believe we can help the chu rches understand this approach, and weare helping students preach the Gospel of Christ even while being students.

Yours in Christ,

A1 H a mi l t o nI n t e r n a t i o n a l D i r e c t o rO u t r e a c h I n t e r n a t i o n a l

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J O N A T H A t J A N D S H E T L A H A M I L T O N

P O B O X 9 5 2

B E D F O R D . TX 7 6 9 5

817 355-9598

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love which you have

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sh o wn t o ward H is

name in having mi n

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ministering to th e

sa in t s .

We continue to give

God praise for each

of you as yo u have

h e e n s o fa i th fu l in

ministering to u s

through your

prayers an d finan

cial gifts. We thank

VoiifDr^heihg partn e r s with u s in t h e

lo b of helping put

ne w workers on th e

MAY GOD BLESS YOU

ALL AS YOU COHTINUE

TO SERVE HIM.

E-mail

[email protected]

T R AV E L I N G

It has been really good tobe able to get out and beactive again. I just spent aweek at camp with a groupof w on derfu l k id s a n d f a c

ulty I was the local missionary for thew e e k . A fun t i m e

was had by all.

We are planningLord willing, to att e n d a m i s s i o n s r e

t r e a t in B e t h e l M O . t h e e n d

o f O c t o b e r fo r all t h o s e in

t e r e s t e d in Miss io ns . A lot

of the people attending willbe from the local campusmin is t r i es .

W e a ls o h a v e s e ve r al o th e r

appointments in the nearfuture, including the missionary convention. We

M I S S I O N

N E W S

W e a re an xio us to se e w h at n ew

country or area God will give us

this year. Terry Hawkins is withTeam Expansion and is going todo some survey work in Kazak-s t a n fo r Yo u th E d u c a ti o n al S e r

vices. Hugh and Susan McKieare also planning tomake a trip to Vladivostok in September,Lord willing, andc h e c k o n s o m e areas

nor th o f th e re to s e e

about sending in ateam. We are praying that thesetwo survey trips will be profi table fo r fu tur e w or k.

Stacy Gamer left June 9th withtwo college interns for SouthAfrica. They plan to spends o m e t im e w i t h P e te a n d F ra n

Laughren, who are doing well,there in George, Roland Josephin Kimberley, and Roily Josephin Johannesburg. They are


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P ray fo r workers \o g o \o Bangkok^ SouthEast Asi China My n mar a n d o t h e r count r i es where th e persecuted church is .

PRAY FOR THE FOl-

LOWING:

SURVEY TRIPS TO:

VLADIVOSTOK

TEAMS WORKING IN;

CHINA

SOOTHEASTASIA

llfllIH:

HUNGARY

SOUTH AFRICA

JAMAICA

MOSCOW

BANGLADESH

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CONTINUED HEALTH

TOQOTHEWORKTHAT

THE LORD HAS IN

STOREFORUS.

THAT WORKERS MAY

RAISEUPANDGGINTO

THE UNREACHED AR

EAS OFTHE WORLD

FAMILY

We are all doing just great.The Lord has kept us going

strong. I had a g re at c he ck

up for my annual clinic visit inApril. Praise the Lord. It washard staying away from Crysta l w h e n s h e h a d h e r M M R

shot. Hope she does not

have to o many more live vac

i n e s

^aren just had her secondboy David Marshal born

M a v 2 5 th .

We praise Go d for the strongChris t Like in f luence t h a t U n

c l e J o h n Ha mi l t o n s h a r e d with

us. He died of Cancer 5/31/98

We look forward to reuniting.

MISSION NEWS ^

planning to be gone for Bnef 997financial statementabout six weeks or so. Mission Income 7 355 00We pray that they will en „ „

^ Personallncome 11 888.00courage the church thereand be fruitful for the Total income 19 243 000Kingdom. The fields are Let us knowif you would likea detailedso ripe for the harvest. f~ mclude: Phone Mailmg Office SuppliesPray for more workers. Orientationexpenses Traveletc

T R V E L I N G

are looking forward to allthe future speaking opportunities to recruit mis

sionaries that the Lord

gives us. Please let us

k n o w if w e c a n c o m e a n d

share with you and giveyou an update in person.We Love you all.

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December 1 1 9 9 8

I W O U L DL I K E T O

W I S H A LL

O F Y O U AV E R Y

M E R R Y

C H R I S T M A S

N D A

W O N D E R

F U L N D

J O Y O U S

N E W Y E A R

M A Y G O D

R I C H LY

BLESS E A C H

A N D E V E R Y

O NE O F Y O U

A S Y O U O N T I N U E

T O S E R V E

H I M N D

E X P N D

T H E K I N G

D O M O F

G O D

I L O V E Y O U

L L V E R Y

M U H

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N E W R E C R U IT S

W e a re exc i t ed

about v/hat th e Lord is

doing The missionsr e t r e a t we e k e n d t h a t

we held up in NortheastMissouri the e nd o f O c

tober, went very well.We had a good response from the areaUniversity CampusMinistries and Centra l

Christian College oftheBible in Moberley.Th ere w ere abo u t 35

s t uden ts t ha t a t t ended

and ou t of those, 15 ofthem signed upto spendone year overseas to

help start a campus

ministry in anothercountry. Praise GodWe are hoping to put atl e a s t o n e t eam ove rseas

this next year andmaybe Lord willingw e will be able to have

enough volunteers toput two teams overseas

We praise God for thegreat response.

M ISSIO N A RY C O N V E N T I O N

We were very encouraged also with the exposure that we had at the convention in CincinnatiOhio th e 12th of November I understand that there

was a record number of college students there thisyear My dad Al sister Sonja and 1 all had aworkshop this year That gave us the opportunity to

PRAYER REQUESTS

1. SHEILA, CRYSTAL, MYSELF2. NEW POSSIBLE R EC RUITS THAT HAVE B EEN C ONTACTED3. NEW C O UN TR IE S T HAT W E A R E L OO K IN G INTO

CONTINUED HEALTH AND OPPORTUNITIES FO R RECRUITING

c o n\ t n t io n c o nt

talk to a lo t of kids about

mission work. We reallysaw a good interest instudents willing to spenda year someplace andbe apart of a team to start achurch in an unreached

country. By the way,the re are still about 13 3

countries wi t h o u t a

Chris t i an C h u rc h in

them. I did enjoy theopportunity to speak atFranklin Christian

Church that Sunday wewere i n O h io

N E W

O U N T R I E S

Outreach Interna

tional and Y.E.S. YouthEducational Sertices arelooking into puttingt eams into severa l coun

tr ies in the future W e

have b e e n invi ted toRwanda Africa Ro b e r t


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R o m a n s

1 5 : 7

F o r th e

Kingdomo f G o d isnot eatingand dr ink

ing, butrighteousness a n d

peace andjoy in the

HolySpirit. Forh e w h o in

this ways v s

Chris t is

acceptableto G o d an d

approvedby men.

^natkan

JonathanH a m i l t o n

P O B ox 9 52

Bedford,T X 7 6 0 9 5

317 555-9598

E Mail

jonham@f lash net

O u t r e a c h i n t e r n a t i o n a l

N E W C O U N T R I E S C O N T I N U E D

is a young man that webrought to the Lordb a c k in t he 8 0 s in

Uganda He and hisfamily are now workingwith a relief organization and is asking forhelp to start a church.We hope that we cansend him some help.

We are also lookinginto the possibility of

sending a team of studen t s to on e o f the uni

ve rs i t i e s in F r a n c e n e a r

the Balrd familyWe are also looking

into Istanbul Turkeyand Luxembourg. Wewill need to surveythese places firstandseewhat the possibilities inthese areas are

I have been helpingMark Layman here atmy home church, Highl and M ea do ws C hristian Church, pu t togethera teamof men tomakea trip to Sudan thesecond w e e k in F ebru

ary. They will bepreaching and teachingw he re th e c hu rc h is be

ing persecuted.

G O O D T O B E T R AV E L I N G A G A I N

I m a d e a t h r e e

week trip to Wyomingback in August It wasvery nice to be able tospend time with familyand friends up thereagain It had been alongtime.

I w as inv i t ed to

speak in a class at theWyoming State Conv e n t i o n I t was also a

I am writing thisletter with a very heavyhear t Shei la m o v e d o u t

o f the house and lef t m e

in September It hasbeen a long couple ofm o n th s T o m ake a

longstoryshort, we arein the process of going

joy to be able to sharewith the people inCasper and the churchi n R i v e r t o n

It has been goodtobe able to get out andtravel and speak againAlso 1 have had n o

health problems in rec e n t mo n t h s

1praise God everyday for all the great

CT^amii^througha divorce.

My doctor did tellm e t ha t this is n o t unusual with a majortransplant patient. Iknow tha t Sheila m u s t

have gone through aterrible ordeal watch

ing me be so close todeath so many times.

blessings of life andhealth an d fr iends l ike

you I thank the Lordfor each one of you whopray and help financially to make it possible fo r m e to se rve G o d

full-time. Our partnership in the work of theKingdom is very prec i o u s t o m e

There are a lo t o f

detai ls in th is si tuation

tha t I w o u ld r at he r n o tgo into on paper but,feel free to c o n t a c t m e

about this if you like. Icovet your prayers forSheila,Crystal and measwe go through this

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