Bill Prevette's Compilation of Ministry Research-Related Documents

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Strategic Issues

Transformation:

Experiencing the Power of the Resurrection (15 Kb)
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Community Involvement:

 Preventing Fragmentation of Cambodian Families.PDF (52 Kb)
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General Missiology

Document title: 12 Theses on Kingdom Servanthood for Post-Communist Europe - Kuzmic
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Document title: Becoming a World Christian in a Changing Future
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Document title: God Allows Chaos - Realities and Mission
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Document title: Ignite a Spiritual Revolution
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Document title: International Christian Concern - Indonesia Trip - Persecution of Christians
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Document title: Lausanne - Business as Mission and Reconciliation
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Document title: Mission Agencies as Multinationals
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Document title: Mission as Transformation
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Document title: Missions in the 3rd Millenium
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Document title: More Cross Currents in Missions
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Document title: Omega Model of Missions
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Document title: The 10-40 Window
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Document title: The Story of Faith Missions
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Document title: Time - Western Missionaries in Muslim Context
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Document title: Toward Century 21 - Educating People for Gods Mission
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Document title: Transforming Missions
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Document title: Trends in Missions
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Document title: What Does it Meant to Wage Spiritual Warfare
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Country Studies

Document title: Addis Ababa Mercy Center Ministries 1
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Document title: Africa CHE Program Description
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Document title: Cambodia - Takeo Project Article
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Document title: Cambodia - The Whole Gospel to the Whole Man
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Document title: CHE and AIDS in Africa
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Document title: CHE and Street Children
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Church and Social Concern:

Document title: Attitudes, values in student environment
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Document title: Book Review of Transformation as Mission
Document description: This article was written for the Journal 'Transformation.' Willmer questions some of the premises of the book asking questions about how we balance the 'already/not yet' dynamic of the future reality of the Kingdom of God with the present reality of our humaness and contemporay society.
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Document title: Brussels Statement
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Document title: Children and the Kingdom (EE Leadership) adjusted
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Document title: Class notes day 1
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Document title: Compassion Statement - Our Position EN
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Document title: Dimensions of Poverty
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Document title: Full Gospel Ministry as Word and Deed
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Document title: Got Transcendence
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Document title: Merchants of Cool or Communities of the King
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Document title: Missions in the twenty-first century
Document description: Doug Petersen reflects on a Pentecostal Missiology for the 21st Century. He draws on Pentecostal and evangelical scholarship as he argues for an integration of social concern and evangelism. This is an article originally published in the "Transformation" journal.
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Document title: Persepctives - chapter 10
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Document title: Response to the Brussels Consultation
Document description: This is an article originally published in the "Transformation" journal.
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Document title: Selected bibliography on evangelization and social concern
Document description: This is a selective bibliography, recommended by, and originally published in the "Transformation" journal.
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Document title: Social concern in the context of Jesus’ kingdom, mission and ministry
Document description: This article was written by Murray Dempster and published in "Transformation" journal. Here Dempster discusses an ethical framework for the Kingdom of God and social praxis.
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Document title: Social Ethics in the Prophets
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Document title: The Church in India
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Document title: The Resiliency of Congregations
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Document title: Towards Evangelism in Context
Document description: Written before he published his Magnum Opus 'Transforming Mission' this artice was published in 'The Chruch in Response to Human Need.' Bosch makes an arguement for evangelism that goes beyond simply saving souls. He integrates his ideas from Matthew's Gospel on discipling and evangelism that requires following Jesus in 'all what he did' as well as said.
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Children at Risk

General Information:

Document title: Beyond Welfare - Measuring and Monitoring the State of Children
Document description: when we do collect data and information on the state of our children the question should be asked: What do we measure and by what means? This paper calls for a new concept of children well being. It stresses the need to reshape the field of measuring the state of children by adapting it to new shifts and trends.
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Document title: Categories of Child Development
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Document title: Children of War
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Document title: Children's Rights: Has Anyone Got It Right (Draft)
Document description: This paper sets out to give some historical background and contemporary developments to children's rights and outlines three perspectives that inform these institutions.
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Document title: Compassion - How to Respond to Child Sponsorship No Good
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Document title: Correct Motivational Factors for Work with Children at Risk
Document description: A talk by Steve Bartel of YWAM, Cambodia.
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Document title: International Project on Indicators of Children's Wellbeing
Document description: Asher Ben-Arieh is director of the Center for Research and Public Education at the National Council for the Child in Israel.
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Document title: Key Components of Child Development: A Christian Perspective
Document description: Tomkins lists as key components of child development the following: growth and nutrition, health and immunity, cognition and educational achievement, social and relational attitudes, self esteem, life skills, spirituality.
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Document title: Promoting Girls Participation in Development
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Document title: The Child in Context - Factors that Optimize Development
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Document title: What in the World Is Going On: Strategic Trends Affecting Children
Document description: This assessment is written to support organizations working on behalf of the world's children as they do strategic thinking.
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Document title: What Is Holistic Child Development
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Country and Agency Specific:


Document title: Christian Response to Disabled Children in Cambodia
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Document title: Early Childhood Development in sub Sahara
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Document title: Statistics - Childern At Risk in All Countries
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Document title: TEARFUND - Child Development Policy
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Document title: TEARFUND - Guidelines for Working with Children in Residential Care.PDF
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Document title: Teen Challenge - After School Learning and Prevention Program
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Trafficking and Exploitation:

 

List of Resources on Trafficking of Women and Girls in Eastern Europe (37 Kb)
 Document Description: A listing of resources on trafficking.
 Helping the Girl Child (56 Kb)
 Document Description: Gender discrimination is manifested in many ways, such as conferring more affection on a son or, in extreme cases, abandonment, and female infanticide. As girls grow up, many of them will be subjected to early marriages leading to early pregnancies. This has negative effects on their physical, mental, and emotional well-being, as well as on the well-being of their infants.

 

 AIDS:

Children and HIV (20 Kb)
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Churches and Children:

Document title: "A Little Child Shall Lead Them": Rediscovering Children at the Heart of Mission
Document description: There is a misconception of serious proportions among Christians that 'the Bible says very little about children'... What if we have misheard or neglect God's revealed teaching about children and childhood?
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Document title: 14 Faith Development Theories
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Document title: A Child in the Midst
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Document title: Children at Risk - the Biggest Mission Field
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Document title: Children in Crisis - World Realities and Church Mission
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Document title: Children in Crisis - World Realities and Church Mission- shorter version
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Document title: Church Planting Among Children
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Document title: Contrasting Images of Childhood
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Document title: Do We Need to Convert Them - a case study from Romania
Document description: This essay was written after interaction in January 2005 with Iana Mattei (director of Reaching Out Romania) concerning her approach and the legitimacy of “allowing spiritual space” to girls that have been rescued from forced prostitution in Romania. I provide an overview of Mattei's work and approach and investigate conversion as gift or 'exchange'. Theoretical material involves Rebecca Nye and David Hay.
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Document title: Malmesbury Abbey Children's Charter
Document description: On churches' attitude toward children
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Document title: Sectoral Analysis of Children at Risk
Document description: Karen Hinder from the Viva Network compiled this sectoral analysis of Children at Risk in 2004, she also developed a quality improvement scheme. Karen passed away in 2006.
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Document title: The 4-14 Window - Child Mission Strategy
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Document title: The Child in Christian Thought
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Document title: The Great Omission
Document description: Authors believe children and young people should be the single greatest priority for Christian work in the coming decade. But, are they?
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Document title: The Spirituality of the Child
Document description: "Spirituality of the child" points to children's spirituality and the spirituality of adults as they attend to children and their spirituality.
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Document title: To Such As These Belongs the Reign of God
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Document title: Youth and Faith Development
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Vocational and Skill Development:

Research Framework for Youth Enterprise Development.pdf (61 Kb)
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Leadership

Leadership Resources:


Document title: Commonalities and Differences in Western and Asian Effective Leadership. pdf
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Document title: Critiques of Leaderhip Theory and Research. pdf
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Document title: Definition and Interpretation in Cross Cult Org Res
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Document title: Ethnography Manual for Leadership Study
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Document title: How Did I Do vs How Did We Do
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Document title: Leadership That Goes the Distance
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Document title: Leading Without Power
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Document title: Learning Some Basic Truisms About Leadership
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Document title: Substitutes for Leadership Theory
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Management and Organizational Studies:


Document title: Are Charismatic Leadership Theories Universally Endorsed Or Not
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Document title: Compassion - Implementing Partner Procedures
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Document title: Freedom and Dependency in Christian Partnerships.PDF
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Document title: Gender Differences in Leadership
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Document title: International Perspectives on International Leadership
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Document title: Is there a cure (dependency on outside funds)
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Document title: Job Description - Program Development Specialist
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Document title: Job Description - Research Specialist
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Document title: Leadership and Culture US vs Germany
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Document title: Leadership and Organizational Justice - Similarities and Differences across Cultures
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Document title: Management Style Quiz
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Document title: Stereotypes of International Managers
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Document title: The Practice of Global Management in the 21st Century
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Document title: WR Case Study in Cambodia - Lessons Learned
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Training and Mentoring:


Document title: 02 Transformational Model
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Document title: 03 What Do I Do Right
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Document title: 05 Change Handout Masters for DFM
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Document title: AGWM Seminar with Melvyn Ming, June 30, 2003, Session 1
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Document title: AGWM seminar with Melvyn Ming, June 30, 2003, Session 2
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Document title: AGWM seminar with Melvyn Ming, June 30, 2003, Session 3
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Document title: AGWM seminar with Melvyn Ming, June 30, 2003, Session 4
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Document title: AGWM seminar with Melvyn Ming, June 30, 2003, Session 5
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Document title: AGWM seminar with Melvyn Ming, June 30, 2003, Session 6
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Document title: Developing Leaders
Document description: Mintzberg on learnig from the developing world and leadership
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Document title: Ethics and Eductional Leadership and Influence
Document description: How do ethics shape moral formation in students; why pay attention to education in Romania.
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Document title: The Paperless Office
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Document title: Universities in Africa - Strategies for Stabilization and Revitalization
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Networking

Collaboration and Parterships:

 The Spirituality of Fundraising (840 Kb)
 Document Description: The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.

Faith Based Organizations and Non Governmental Organizations

 Governance (30 Kb)
 Document Description: needs reference

 

Evaluation Tools:


Document title: How Does Compassion Evaluate Projects
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Document title: Leadership Capacity Assessment
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Document title: Program Evaluation Form
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Document title: Program Quality Assessment
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Document title: Background of Key Result Areas and Indicators
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Document title: Church Audit - Evaluation of Churches
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Document title: Community Baseline Assessment
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Document title: Community Description Form
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Document title: Evaluation of Community Readiness
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Document title: Home Evaluation Form
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Document title: Project Audit Form Sample
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Other Materials:

Sectoral Analysis of Children at Risk (747 Kb)
 Document Description: Karen Hinder from the Viva Network compiled this sectoral analysis of Children at Risk in 2004, she also developed a quality improvement scheme. Karen passed away in 2006.

Do We Need to Convert Them - a case study from Romania (67 Kb)
 Document Description: This essay was written after interaction in January 2005 with Iana Mattei (director of Reaching Out Romania) concerning her approach and the legitimacy of “allowing spiritual space” to girls that have been rescued from forced prostitution in Romania. I provide an overview of Mattei's work and approach and investigate conversion as gift or 'exchange'. Theoretical material involves Rebecca Nye and David Hay

May 2008 Newsletter (70 Kb)
 Document Description: This is our May 2008 Newsletter. Bill finished his PhD in June about one month after this letter was written

Prevette Report May 2007 (461 Kb)
 Document Description: Our last newsletter sent from Romania just before we moved back to the USA for furlough, we finished a 5 year term and Daniel finished High School with honors.

Prevettes December 2006 Newsletter (56 Kb)
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October 2006 Prevette Newsletter (148 Kb)
 Document Description: Fall 2006 newsletter.

 

 

 


     In 1998 the family began work with Mission of Mercy which sponsors 70,000 children in 35 countries. Bill directed the international pro¬gram development and research arm of the ministry and started doctoral studies at the Oxford Center for Mission Studies in June of 2003. At the request of AGWM, the Prevette family moved to Bucharest, Romania in August, 2002. They worked in Southeastern Europe based in Romania from 2002-2007. Bill served as the country moderator for Romania, the board of Teen Challenge, and Touched Romania, a ministry to women at risk. His ministry focused on training young leaders and teaching in a number of seminaries and schools. He states, ‘my calling is to mentor and equip emerging leaders, training them to advance the Kingdom of God and serve their churches, families and the children that are suffering the effects of poverty, exploitation, and corruption.’ Ky was Romanian Missionary Fellowship business manager, a full time mom, and leads a ministry with international women. Daniel, 18, graduated with honors from Bucharest Christian Academy and enrolled in Southeastern University in August 2007. Currently the Prevette family is based in Lakeland, Florida. Bill is assigned as an Missionary in Residence at Southeastern University and is traveling to churches around the USA. He can be contacted at bill@prevetteresearch.net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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