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This is Josh<\/a>. He’s a student at a small college in Pennsylvania, and I had the pleasure of calling him a couple days ago to tell him he’d won the trip to Africa we sponsored with Children’s HopeChest<\/a>. He’ll be accompanied by the inimitable Tom Davis<\/a>, president of CHC. They’ll visit orphanages in either Swaziland, Ethiopia, or Uganda.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Josh was sitting in a missions meeting at his school when I called him. What’s he want to do with his life? Build orphanages. What does he dream of? Farmlands flourishing and families prospering. Seriously. Not a bad winner for the contest.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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