The message has been about a couple of prophets who fell by the wayside, but I want to tell you of a man that finished the race:

Dave and Nikki McDonald were missionaries to Iraq. They were shot in pieces by mortar fire and AK-47’s while in Iraq working on a water-purification project and sharing the Gospel. Dave was shot destroying his spleen and breaking his back. Still, he managed to get a call out on his cell phone to an ambulance. He was concerned for his wife who also was hit. When the wife went in for surgery, she asked about Dave. They assured her he would be okay. It was only when she woke in a Hospital in Dallas, TX that they told her that he has died and was buried several days ago while she was still unconscious. Still, before she was released from the Hospital she was

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