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MAILING ADDRESS SENDING CHURCH Woodlawn Baptist Church 5001 Church Road Bowie, MD 20720 Telephone: 301.464.0433 Website: www.wbcbowie.org

MISSION BOARD Baptist International Missions, Inc. P.O. Box 9215 Chattanooga, TN 37412 Telephone: 423.344.5050 Website: www.bimi.org CONTACT Mail: jeffripg@yahoo.com Telephone: 240.839.8538

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I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic until I was ten years old when I came to the United States of America. As a child, I was introduced to numerous different charismatic churches and made a promise that I would never go to church again because I saw people speak in tongues and many other things. When I was thirteen years old, I was pursuing a dream of making it to the MLB, and therefore began to look for baseball teams to play for. I was introduced to the High School baseball team in October of 2005 that Woodlawn Baptist Church had and on my first practice, I heard a clear presentation of the gospel and accepted Christ as my Savior. After that, I began to come to church faithfully and sat under the preaching of Dr. Ron Fenwick and his preaching transformed my life. As I began to grow as a Christian, I began to go to youth conferences. On my first conference in 2006 in Tennessee, I heard man of God preach, such as Kenny Baldwin, and many others; and at that conference, I made a public profession that God had called me to preach. After that youth conference, I began to soul-win almost every day and joined the bus ministry as captain of Bus 5. As a fourteen year old young man, I began to preach Christ and saw many saved and baptized from my bus route. I have averaged thirty to forty people every Sunday on my bus route and had many special events where I had over seventy people come.

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My name is Pamela Polanco, I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. In my family we never had any religious practice, did not attend any church, and my father and my brothers were atheists. When I was 12 my parents got divorced and I moved with my mother and my brothers to a new neighborhood. Over the years, I met a neighbor who was a member of a church. She used to invite me to every service but I never had any interest in attending church. One night in December 2012, I decided to go. My first impression when I got there was that people were very friendly and welcoming. That evening during the church service, I heard the gospel, but I still did not believe that it was true. Well, I decided to continue to attend the church because I loved how friendly people were. Then, after attending church for over five months and listening to the gospel, I felt God's call to salvation. I was scared because I thought it couldn’t be true, so I decided not to return to the church. However, the seed of the gospel was already planted in my heart and the Holy Spirit was convicting me of my sin. So, I decided to return once again to Iglesia Bautista el Faro on June 27, 2013, and I could no longer deny the existence of an almighty God, or the death of Jesus Christ for my sins. I asked Jesus Christ to save me and my life changed drastically after this. The Lord filled me with peace, love, protection and he has given me a fervent desire to serve and be an instrument for in any way possible.