February Prayer Letter 2008 THE YEAR OF NEW BEGINNINGS
PRAYING FOR: EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Bob and Carol Cave: Overseas Ministry Coordinator for Europe and the Middle East
"Prayer Request"
The great moves of the Holy Spirit we proceeded as groups and individuals focused on prayer to break the strongholds that have been set in place. We as His warriors are never fully equipped until we realize the power of prayer. The war itself is prayer. The strategy is prayer. As we target it on those stronghold as obstacles we can stand amazed at the results.
I so much appreciate what Nancy gets accomplished by making our partitions known to one another. This gets a lot of momentum behind a focal point. I'm sure we will all remember of fellow missionaries in Kenya. that God will protect and lead them in safety as they move from place to place.
Remember the Todd Presleys' and the Fannins on Furlough, you know what it's like.
Please pray for God's perfect plan for IPHC in Israel. there is a lot of real interest there this past year. We are in the midst of partnering with an IPHC couple who have 2 Houses of Prayer there. Also Leta Dantzler, who served in Hong Kong and Haiti is there in one of them and she is going to rejoin missions. Pray for her as her mother just passed away this week in a nursing home and she won’t be going home until Feb.20th.
Pray for our fellow brother/sisters in Uzbekistan. They are still sealed out of their building and house churches are illegal. They are meeting in cell groups.
Igor and Lena,’ our National missionaries in Izmir Turkey are in financial need personally as well as their mission work.
Of course we are in need of prayer so let's remember one another.
Blessings ..................Bob & Carol
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PRAY FOR: NORTHWEST EUROPE
Harold & Kathleen Presley IPHC - UK and NW Europe~ New Life for the Old World ~
Regional Ministry Coordinator for Northwest Europe
From Harold & Kathleen Presley re: UK & NW EuropePrayer for UK:
Thank God for incoming SA'ers! Pray for the Downing family and the Templeton family as they move to UK from South Africa and engage in ministry. You all know what it's like to liquidate, uproot and resettle across the globe. That's the way to pray. Pray for potential church-plant in Connahs Quay, North Wales with Templetons. Pray for church-plant in Milton Keynes, England...gathering the core group now. Pray for Jordan and Grace; host to one of our church plants whose marriage hit the rocks, and busted up. Pray for our UK Pastor/Leader Retreat 18-22 Feb with Dr.Beacham, Bob Cave, Preston Mathena, Nancy Berry and Paul Godawa ministering. 54 adults signed up so far. Our aim is 75.Prayer for NW Europe. Pray for my venture into Finland. Never been there, hoping the Mininger's can help with contacts over 6-13 Feb. Pray for Greens: thank God they are back in Norway now. pray for fruitfulness and blessing in their ministry.Pray for Todd & Stephanie to have success in fund-raising and return to Wales soon!!
Pray for wisdom in ministry and Thanks for always praying for our family as we do yours; that's Nicholas in Wales, Micah & Victoria in Athens, GA, Bethany at Emmanuel College, Miriam at home in London, and the lovely wife, Kathleen, hopefully she's still at home in London, too.
Bob and Carol Cave: Overseas Ministry Coordinator for Europe and the Middle East
"Prayer Request"
The great moves of the Holy Spirit we proceeded as groups and individuals focused on prayer to break the strongholds that have been set in place. We as His warriors are never fully equipped until we realize the power of prayer. The war itself is prayer. The strategy is prayer. As we target it on those stronghold as obstacles we can stand amazed at the results.
I so much appreciate what Nancy gets accomplished by making our partitions known to one another. This gets a lot of momentum behind a focal point. I'm sure we will all remember of fellow missionaries in Kenya. that God will protect and lead them in safety as they move from place to place.
Remember the Todd Presleys' and the Fannins on Furlough, you know what it's like.
Please pray for God's perfect plan for IPHC in Israel. there is a lot of real interest there this past year. We are in the midst of partnering with an IPHC couple who have 2 Houses of Prayer there. Also Leta Dantzler, who served in Hong Kong and Haiti is there in one of them and she is going to rejoin missions. Pray for her as her mother just passed away this week in a nursing home and she won’t be going home until Feb.20th.
Pray for our fellow brother/sisters in Uzbekistan. They are still sealed out of their building and house churches are illegal. They are meeting in cell groups.
Igor and Lena,’ our National missionaries in Izmir Turkey are in financial need personally as well as their mission work.
Of course we are in need of prayer so let's remember one another.
Blessings ..................Bob & Carol
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PRAY FOR: NORTHWEST EUROPE
Harold & Kathleen Presley IPHC - UK and NW Europe~ New Life for the Old World ~
Regional Ministry Coordinator for Northwest Europe
From Harold & Kathleen Presley re: UK & NW EuropePrayer for UK:
Thank God for incoming SA'ers! Pray for the Downing family and the Templeton family as they move to UK from South Africa and engage in ministry. You all know what it's like to liquidate, uproot and resettle across the globe. That's the way to pray. Pray for potential church-plant in Connahs Quay, North Wales with Templetons. Pray for church-plant in Milton Keynes, England...gathering the core group now. Pray for Jordan and Grace; host to one of our church plants whose marriage hit the rocks, and busted up. Pray for our UK Pastor/Leader Retreat 18-22 Feb with Dr.Beacham, Bob Cave, Preston Mathena, Nancy Berry and Paul Godawa ministering. 54 adults signed up so far. Our aim is 75.Prayer for NW Europe. Pray for my venture into Finland. Never been there, hoping the Mininger's can help with contacts over 6-13 Feb. Pray for Greens: thank God they are back in Norway now. pray for fruitfulness and blessing in their ministry.Pray for Todd & Stephanie to have success in fund-raising and return to Wales soon!!
Pray for wisdom in ministry and Thanks for always praying for our family as we do yours; that's Nicholas in Wales, Micah & Victoria in Athens, GA, Bethany at Emmanuel College, Miriam at home in London, and the lovely wife, Kathleen, hopefully she's still at home in London, too.
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Pray for Amsterdam Matt and Femke Helland, http://www.hellands.org/
Please pray for our house. We bought our home a year and a half ago and suddenly there has been a rash of things breaking down or falling apart. The former owners built part of our house illegally and now the city wants us to get permits and other paperwork for the house. The biggest thing however is our basement (40% of our house). It is leaking and it costs a lot of money to get it fixed. Please pray for all of these situations to be resolved and that God will be glorified even in this situation. Also, that these things will not be able to absorb our focus and energy on the things for which God has called us here to Amsterdam for.
On the ministry side, please pray for a new alpha course we will start this month. Pray that we will have new students enroll and that this course will be full of people wanting to get to know God. Thanks for keeping our kid's club in prayer and all of our other activities and contacts.
Praise Report: A large part of Amsterdam's red light district is in the process of being permanently shut down. We recognize this as an answer to years of prayer. Keep the prayers coming this way. Sincerely, Matt and Femke Helland
Please pray for our house. We bought our home a year and a half ago and suddenly there has been a rash of things breaking down or falling apart. The former owners built part of our house illegally and now the city wants us to get permits and other paperwork for the house. The biggest thing however is our basement (40% of our house). It is leaking and it costs a lot of money to get it fixed. Please pray for all of these situations to be resolved and that God will be glorified even in this situation. Also, that these things will not be able to absorb our focus and energy on the things for which God has called us here to Amsterdam for.
On the ministry side, please pray for a new alpha course we will start this month. Pray that we will have new students enroll and that this course will be full of people wanting to get to know God. Thanks for keeping our kid's club in prayer and all of our other activities and contacts.
Praise Report: A large part of Amsterdam's red light district is in the process of being permanently shut down. We recognize this as an answer to years of prayer. Keep the prayers coming this way. Sincerely, Matt and Femke Helland
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Mauricio, Lourdes, Betsabé and Obed Salazar
Missionaries serving Jesus in Brussels the Capital of Belgium & Europe
Please pray for us as a family because our kids are entering their teenage years. We all need wisdom to go through this stage of their lives and be successful.
Please pray for the Logos Church, because even though it’s been over two years since we planted this church yet the members are few and we have gone through several problems and people that where not born again there have little by little left. We remain with a group of about 18 people. That they may be united, grow in wisdom and in grace and be successful evangelists.
Please pray for the Eglise Pentecôtiste Internationale, the other IPHC church in Brussels. Pastor Paulin Afanvi is doing well and has an international church that is working well with about 30 new people.
Please pray that Belgium and all the people living here may be open to hear the gospel and relate to the people surrounding them. We want to be reaching out to the people that have never have heard the gospel and this is a perfect place for that.
Please pray for the government sponsored public grade school “Les Tournesols” (The Sunflowers). I have been a part of the board for now about 6 years. All the teachers are born again believers and see their job as a ministry. Many kids have heard the gospel and believed in that school. I heard the testimony of a 4th grade Muslim kid that comes to the school even though it’s Christian and how she received Jesus. One night as she was sleeping, our dear Lord Jesus came to her & gently woke her up and spent some time talking to her. This is the testimony of a 9 year old girl! Please pray for that school.
Please pray for the Logos Church, because even though it’s been over two years since we planted this church yet the members are few and we have gone through several problems and people that where not born again there have little by little left. We remain with a group of about 18 people. That they may be united, grow in wisdom and in grace and be successful evangelists.
Please pray for the Eglise Pentecôtiste Internationale, the other IPHC church in Brussels. Pastor Paulin Afanvi is doing well and has an international church that is working well with about 30 new people.
Please pray that Belgium and all the people living here may be open to hear the gospel and relate to the people surrounding them. We want to be reaching out to the people that have never have heard the gospel and this is a perfect place for that.
Please pray for the government sponsored public grade school “Les Tournesols” (The Sunflowers). I have been a part of the board for now about 6 years. All the teachers are born again believers and see their job as a ministry. Many kids have heard the gospel and believed in that school. I heard the testimony of a 4th grade Muslim kid that comes to the school even though it’s Christian and how she received Jesus. One night as she was sleeping, our dear Lord Jesus came to her & gently woke her up and spent some time talking to her. This is the testimony of a 9 year old girl! Please pray for that school.
Ricardo and Shadely: Missionaries
Praise the Lord we have are residence now and it was a great victory!
Praise the Lord we have are residence now and it was a great victory!
Prayer Request:
1. That hearts will be open to the message of Christ. That their small groups will grow and multiply.
2. Funds will come in for the projects and evangelism of the children.
3. Funds for the Church building.
4. Open hearts for others to come and help us in the work.Pray for Fardin, Turquian, Hizmet, Seniye, Gulses, Gulyian, Bildad, Erhan and for the children and teenagers.
1. That hearts will be open to the message of Christ. That their small groups will grow and multiply.
2. Funds will come in for the projects and evangelism of the children.
3. Funds for the Church building.
4. Open hearts for others to come and help us in the work.Pray for Fardin, Turquian, Hizmet, Seniye, Gulses, Gulyian, Bildad, Erhan and for the children and teenagers.
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Pray for Hungary: Mézes Lászlo President of IPHC in Hungary
*Our prayer request is, that the preparation should be smooth /Canadian visa, travel, to the World Congress in May, Vancouver. The congress takes only 4 days, but if we travel so far and pay so much for airfare we would like to stay for one more week in Canada /May 17-24/.
*For this week we would like to find a church or a family within IPHC who would welcome us, so we could make a strong, friendly connection between Hungary and IPHC in Vancouver area.
*Our denomination owns a simple, rustic conference estate among mountains in Hungary / http://www.szabadkeresztyen.hu/ -"magunkról" file: Kánó/, but for years we could not develop there anything in lack of finances. We are grateful to God and IPHC, that this year an American building team will come between March 29. - April 8. and help us to repair and finish the church building. Our prayer request is, that the preparation / construction permit from authorities, buying right building material, Hungarian translators, etc/ should be successful and the whole work would bring blessing into our life mutually.
With love: Ibolya Mézes Pastor wife -Free Christian Fellowship, Hungary
Lilla Gere: in Hungary
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Pray for Tallinn, Estonia Larry and Deborah Mininger
Deborah and I are right in the middle of an extensive filming of our Advantage University course that is 4 months long here in Estonia. We have attempted to put the school on DVD for 8 years so we can send it to regions beyond where we cannot go. Each time there has been a hindrance with our equipment that stalls the process. Again, the new course was written, translated, printed, students enrolled and the first class began. Our camera man was recording with our 6 year old JVC digital and it lasted 6 minutes before going out. We lost the first 16 hours of the class. Yes we took it to the repair shop. It worked there but not in class.We called our Christian friend at the TV studio and he came out within the hour. He said; “You are trying to do professional grade work with consumer grade equipment. You need a professional camera with a 2 channel external microphone to accomplish your task. The first channel allows you to maintain your English voice and the second can be recorded over by one of the 8 languages that you minister in.” He immediately searched for and found the exact camera we need and the cost ranged from $3,500 dollars to 6,000 dollars. We then found the same camera on Ebay for sale with less than 1 hour on the recording clock. It cost $1900 dollars.We prayed much about this situation. Our ministry is in great need of this camera for Bible School, new church plant documentation, conferences, itineration purposes and quarterly DVD updates to churches about our ministry. We felt assured from the Lord that this piece of equipment was justified and we stepped out by faith and purchased it. We took money from our retirement savings to do it. We did not feel that we could ask anyone else to step out in faith if we did not do it first. You had to know how important we think this is to our ministry. It is a Sony HVR-A1U. If large ministries can raise millions for buildings they need, we concluded that God would help us to raise $1900 dollars for equipment we need. Our ministry an the people we reach are no less significant to God! Thank you for being perceptive!Dear friend, you have followed our ministry for some time and have demonstrated trust in Deb and I. Will you consider sending a large one time gift toward the cost of this camera? Maybe God will put it on your heart to underwrite the entire purchase.You may click on the following link below for more photos and specs on the camera.Thank you and we love you,Larry and Deborah Mininger
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Pray for the Ukraine: Valeriy Reshetinskiy
President for Ukraine IPHC
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Pray for Albania David and Valbona Pennoyer
Greetings in Jesus’ Name!
I David, am in North America right now itinerating. Valbona is in Albania with the children. These things in themselves bring up lots of prayer requests.
1. Valbona needs prayer as she looks after things in the ministry back home and also has to deal with the children by herself.
2. I need prayer for protection while I travel and success in raising support and awareness for our ministry in Albania and the Philippines.
3. Christopher and Kimberley need prayer as daddy is away and mommy is busy.
4. We all need prayer as our family is separated. We just couldn’t afford to all go back this year as the falling dollar has really affected us.
5. We need a teacher for Christopher and Kimberley. They finished grade 2 and 1 in November and their teacher left to prepare for China so we desperately need a teacher. If we don’t find one then I will have to take that over which means other areas will suffer but our children are of utmost importance.
6. Pray for the National Youth Convention that Valbona is in charge of and is planning for early in May. We want to bring the youth from across the nation together in our city to challenge them to take Albania for Jesus.
We have never had a national revival but I believe with much prayer this could be the start of something that will turn Albania right side up for Christ.
7. We have a couple big projects on the drawing board. A dairy farm with Biblical work training in life skills for youth and we have been asked to start and direct an Orphanage. Both these projects will take a great deal of capital so we ask for God’s guidance in these areas.
8. Many of our youth want to go for training but we need sponsors for them.
9. A couple of our youth who have been in training have made major bad decision that could wreck the rest of their life and ministry. Pray for them that they will turn things around by making proper decisions.
10. We need two buildings for churches. One in Albania and one in the Philippines. Again we need a miracle of gigantic proportions. But our God is able.
11. We need sponsors to support Elona a young lady from our church who has been called is trained and ready to go to Turkey as a missionary.
12. We thank the many that prayed for Pastor Alex’s little girl Shekinah in the Philippines who fell out of the vehicle a few months ago. It was amazing how the body of Christ pulled together to pray and cover the medical expenses that they experienced during this time. All that has been taken care of and we have about 2/3rd of the funds raised for a vehicle for the ministry there that is so necessary there.
13. We need to finish raising fund for the vehicle in the Philippines and we need a couple more in Albania as well. God bless and keep looking up. In His Service David J. Pennoyer
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Pray for Macedonia Samuel and Raquel
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Pray for Turkey: Ismail and Angela, Igor and Lena,
Please pray for the church in Izmir, it is going through the shift of leadership and with that change we are getting ready to receive new vision and new ways.
May God be in all of us and all we do, Igor and Lena
Jerry and Terry
Next week we return to Denizli to pray and serve the small group of believers meeting there.
It's a 3 1/2 hour trip one way on public transportation.
We need: STRENGTH for travel and staying in private homes
HIS ANOINTING a fresh. Lord pour out Your glory
WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT to only do and say what the Father wants us to do
PROTECTION as the believers here are under surveillance, when we are there we are as well.
BREAKTHROUGH is needed! There is a strong resistance present. Pray the Spirit of Praise and Worship
A RISE! Lord show Yourself strong!
Thank you for praying. Prayer is the key to God's heart. Your prayers really make the difference. We love and appreciate you. What a privilege it is to serve as Co-laborers together. To God to the glory great things He has done and continues to do. Not unto us of Lord, not unto us but unto Your name give glory for Your Mercy and Your Truth sake. Ps 115:1Co-laborers In Christ
*Our prayer request is, that the preparation should be smooth /Canadian visa, travel, to the World Congress in May, Vancouver. The congress takes only 4 days, but if we travel so far and pay so much for airfare we would like to stay for one more week in Canada /May 17-24/.
*For this week we would like to find a church or a family within IPHC who would welcome us, so we could make a strong, friendly connection between Hungary and IPHC in Vancouver area.
*Our denomination owns a simple, rustic conference estate among mountains in Hungary / http://www.szabadkeresztyen.hu/ -"magunkról" file: Kánó/, but for years we could not develop there anything in lack of finances. We are grateful to God and IPHC, that this year an American building team will come between March 29. - April 8. and help us to repair and finish the church building. Our prayer request is, that the preparation / construction permit from authorities, buying right building material, Hungarian translators, etc/ should be successful and the whole work would bring blessing into our life mutually.
With love: Ibolya Mézes Pastor wife -Free Christian Fellowship, Hungary
Lilla Gere: in Hungary
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Pray for Tallinn, Estonia Larry and Deborah Mininger
Deborah and I are right in the middle of an extensive filming of our Advantage University course that is 4 months long here in Estonia. We have attempted to put the school on DVD for 8 years so we can send it to regions beyond where we cannot go. Each time there has been a hindrance with our equipment that stalls the process. Again, the new course was written, translated, printed, students enrolled and the first class began. Our camera man was recording with our 6 year old JVC digital and it lasted 6 minutes before going out. We lost the first 16 hours of the class. Yes we took it to the repair shop. It worked there but not in class.We called our Christian friend at the TV studio and he came out within the hour. He said; “You are trying to do professional grade work with consumer grade equipment. You need a professional camera with a 2 channel external microphone to accomplish your task. The first channel allows you to maintain your English voice and the second can be recorded over by one of the 8 languages that you minister in.” He immediately searched for and found the exact camera we need and the cost ranged from $3,500 dollars to 6,000 dollars. We then found the same camera on Ebay for sale with less than 1 hour on the recording clock. It cost $1900 dollars.We prayed much about this situation. Our ministry is in great need of this camera for Bible School, new church plant documentation, conferences, itineration purposes and quarterly DVD updates to churches about our ministry. We felt assured from the Lord that this piece of equipment was justified and we stepped out by faith and purchased it. We took money from our retirement savings to do it. We did not feel that we could ask anyone else to step out in faith if we did not do it first. You had to know how important we think this is to our ministry. It is a Sony HVR-A1U. If large ministries can raise millions for buildings they need, we concluded that God would help us to raise $1900 dollars for equipment we need. Our ministry an the people we reach are no less significant to God! Thank you for being perceptive!Dear friend, you have followed our ministry for some time and have demonstrated trust in Deb and I. Will you consider sending a large one time gift toward the cost of this camera? Maybe God will put it on your heart to underwrite the entire purchase.You may click on the following link below for more photos and specs on the camera.Thank you and we love you,Larry and Deborah Mininger
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Pray for the Ukraine: Valeriy Reshetinskiy
President for Ukraine IPHC
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Pray for Albania David and Valbona Pennoyer
Greetings in Jesus’ Name!
I David, am in North America right now itinerating. Valbona is in Albania with the children. These things in themselves bring up lots of prayer requests.
1. Valbona needs prayer as she looks after things in the ministry back home and also has to deal with the children by herself.
2. I need prayer for protection while I travel and success in raising support and awareness for our ministry in Albania and the Philippines.
3. Christopher and Kimberley need prayer as daddy is away and mommy is busy.
4. We all need prayer as our family is separated. We just couldn’t afford to all go back this year as the falling dollar has really affected us.
5. We need a teacher for Christopher and Kimberley. They finished grade 2 and 1 in November and their teacher left to prepare for China so we desperately need a teacher. If we don’t find one then I will have to take that over which means other areas will suffer but our children are of utmost importance.
6. Pray for the National Youth Convention that Valbona is in charge of and is planning for early in May. We want to bring the youth from across the nation together in our city to challenge them to take Albania for Jesus.
We have never had a national revival but I believe with much prayer this could be the start of something that will turn Albania right side up for Christ.
7. We have a couple big projects on the drawing board. A dairy farm with Biblical work training in life skills for youth and we have been asked to start and direct an Orphanage. Both these projects will take a great deal of capital so we ask for God’s guidance in these areas.
8. Many of our youth want to go for training but we need sponsors for them.
9. A couple of our youth who have been in training have made major bad decision that could wreck the rest of their life and ministry. Pray for them that they will turn things around by making proper decisions.
10. We need two buildings for churches. One in Albania and one in the Philippines. Again we need a miracle of gigantic proportions. But our God is able.
11. We need sponsors to support Elona a young lady from our church who has been called is trained and ready to go to Turkey as a missionary.
12. We thank the many that prayed for Pastor Alex’s little girl Shekinah in the Philippines who fell out of the vehicle a few months ago. It was amazing how the body of Christ pulled together to pray and cover the medical expenses that they experienced during this time. All that has been taken care of and we have about 2/3rd of the funds raised for a vehicle for the ministry there that is so necessary there.
13. We need to finish raising fund for the vehicle in the Philippines and we need a couple more in Albania as well. God bless and keep looking up. In His Service David J. Pennoyer
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Pray for Macedonia Samuel and Raquel
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Pray for Turkey: Ismail and Angela, Igor and Lena,
Please pray for the church in Izmir, it is going through the shift of leadership and with that change we are getting ready to receive new vision and new ways.
May God be in all of us and all we do, Igor and Lena
Jerry and Terry
Next week we return to Denizli to pray and serve the small group of believers meeting there.
It's a 3 1/2 hour trip one way on public transportation.
We need: STRENGTH for travel and staying in private homes
HIS ANOINTING a fresh. Lord pour out Your glory
WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT to only do and say what the Father wants us to do
PROTECTION as the believers here are under surveillance, when we are there we are as well.
BREAKTHROUGH is needed! There is a strong resistance present. Pray the Spirit of Praise and Worship
A RISE! Lord show Yourself strong!
Thank you for praying. Prayer is the key to God's heart. Your prayers really make the difference. We love and appreciate you. What a privilege it is to serve as Co-laborers together. To God to the glory great things He has done and continues to do. Not unto us of Lord, not unto us but unto Your name give glory for Your Mercy and Your Truth sake. Ps 115:1Co-laborers In Christ
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