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By Bob Campbell, Reporter
Odessa American
ODESSA, TEXAS - Roiling down the Amazon River to visit four Peruvian villages and choose one for a new church might seem unusual for a minister from Odessa, but it was just part of the Sherwood Baptist Church program led by the Rev. Ivy Shelton that’s also established missionary beachheads in Panama and South Africa.
“We took a boat five hours from Iquitos and 15 minutes up a tributary, and we prayed over which village God wanted us to work in,” said Shelton, describing that January 2013 trip with the Rev. Robert Thayer of Odessa Bible Church and three others ...
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