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<div style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; white-space: break-spaces;">If you have a bulletin announcement (print/digital),</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; white-space: break-spaces;">please <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:mailto:Office@gracechurchrootstown.com" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration: none;">email it to the church office</a> by Wednesday afternoon.</p></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 9px; padding-left: 10px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; white-space: break-spaces;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Missionary Spotlight</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: start; white-space: break-spaces;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: center; white-space: break-spaces;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Meet Our Newest Missionary family, Roman and Ana Malesh and their children </strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: center; white-space: break-spaces;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Horatiu (13), Elias (9), and Elizabeth (1)</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: start; white-space: break-spaces;">Roman and Ana and their children have relocated to Romania, Europe, sent from Grace Community Church, Sun Valley, CA. Roman and Ana are native Romanian speakers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: start; white-space: break-spaces;">Roman will be teaching at the Timisoara Bible Baptist Seminary, a pastoral training center in Romania, where he will help prepare faithful expositors of God’s word for Romanian churches. He will also serve at Immanuel Baptist Church of Timisoara, near the seminary.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: start; white-space: break-spaces;">Please pray for them as they settle in to their new home and life in Romania, especially for the children.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: start; white-space: break-spaces;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: center; white-space: break-spaces;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 0.9em;">*Please check out the Mission Table for new missionary letter updates</span></strong></p></div>
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