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By Charlie Costa, Regional Coordinator for Middle East
After graduating from Central Baptist College, I returned to Beirut and was sent by First Baptist Church in Blackwood, New Jersey, to serve in Lebanon. Then, in 1989, my father died, and I took over for him as Lifeword’s Arabic speaker.
Lifeword Executive Director George Reddin encouraged me to apply to be a BMA missionary, and in 1993, I was elected at the national meeting in Colorado Springs, then sent to Lebanon to ...
In our success-driven world, people often fear failure. Notice that some of the world’s greatest men failed before they ever succeeded. There was a military general who lost two-thirds of all battles he fought in the American Revolutionary War. His name was General George Washington, but he won the war. Another military leader graduated 42nd out of a class of 43. Napoleon then went out...