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Rodney Howard-Browne was raised in from other nations to come to the United leaders flew in from all over the world,
a Pentecostal family as a young boy in States of America. I am sending a mighty attended these meetings, and took
South Africa. revival to America.” the revival back to their regions. These
meetings had a global impact.
In 1979, the fire of God fell on him. In April of 1989, the Lord sent a revival of
The harvest is coming in!
signs, wonders, and miracles that began In Australia of 1996, Dr. Rodney
Spartanburg, SC | City #135 of 300 On January 1, 1980, he went into the in a church in Clifton Park, New York, and prophesied that the Lord would give this
Attendance: 431 | Altar Call: 149 ministry. has continued to this day, resulting in ministry a way of going outside the four
People Mobilized for the Harvest: 310 thousands of people being touched and walls of the Church.
In 1981, he met and married his wife changed as they encounter the presence
Ahoskie, NC | City #136 of 300 Adonica. of the living God. God is still moving today At the close of 1996, the Lord planted
Attendance: 363 | Altar Call: 60 – saving, healing, delivering, restoring, within Pastors Rodney and Adonica’s
People Mobilized for the Harvest: 240 In December of 1987, Rodney, along and setting free! heart the vision and desire to begin a
with his wife, Adonica, and their three church in Tampa, Florida.
Moravian Falls, NC | City #137 of 300
Attendance: 408 | Altar Call: 144
children, Kirsten, Kelly, and Kenneth, In 1993, Dr. Rodney conducted a revival
People Mobilized for the Harvest: 319 moved from their native land, South in Lakeland, Florida, at Carpenter’s With a heart for the lost and those
Africa, to the United States with only Home Church. Over 100,000 people touched by revival, they implemented
Warsaw, IN | City #138 of 300 $300 – called by God as missionaries came through the doors in the first six that vision and began The River at Tampa
Attendance: 546 | Altar Call: 270 from Africa to America. The Lord had weeks. Bay Church with this theme: Church with
People Mobilized for the Harvest: 478 spoken through Dr. Rodney in a word a Difference – to love the people, feed
of prophecy and declared: “As America The revival ran for thirteen weeks. the people, and touch the people.
Sharpsville, IN | City #139 of 300 has sown missionaries over the last 200 Thousands were saved, and thousands
Attendance: 438 | Altar Call: 120 years, I am going to raise up people received a touch from God. Pastors and Continue on Page 3
People Mobilized for the Harvest: 402
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Again, revival begins in your heart. Ezekiel 36:26, 27a
reads, “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit Faith USA
will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart Celebrating 40 Years of Ministry.....................3 Sunday 10 AM ET
out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 300 City Tour .................................................4 Vist myfaithtv.com to find a channel in your area.
And I will put my spirit within you.” Thoughts on Stewardship..............................6
River Testimonies .........................................8 Faith UK
Some people need a new spirit; that is, the Spirit of RMI Conferences...........................................9 Sunday 4 AM BST
God needs to revive them. They sit like a bump on a Vist myfaithtv.com to find a channel in your area.
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log in the Sunday morning service, jumping up between
yawns to shout “Amen!” Covenant Women’s Conference...................12 Faith Africa
Kingdom Business Fellowship.....................13 Sunday 12 AM CAT
Revival brings a change of heart. When you have been Good News South Africa Crusades.............14 Vist myfaithtv.com to find a channel in your area.
revived, you will go and change other people’s hearts - Good News Vizag........................................18
not their heads. God doesn’t want fat heads; He wants Socialism Under the Microscope.................19
fat hearts. There are enough fat heads going around! Celebrate America.......................................20
Just to change your mind is not enough; you’ve got to
Killing the Planet..........................................22
have a change of heart. That’s what happens when you
get born again: You have a change of heart. River School of the Bible..............................23
River School of Government........................24
Some of you are not experiencing revival right now
because you need a change of heart. If you will let the
Spirit of God move in your life, He will give you a change
of heart, and you will be in revival. Then people will look
at you and say, “Everyone’s talking about revival, but
that person is walking in it.” CHRONICLES OF REVIVAL MANAGING EDITOR
EDITORIAL STAFF Dr. Jennifer Gonyon
You can have revival all the time. You can have revival PUBLISHER EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS
Revival Ministries International Darrain & Christine Matthews
in your home. You can have revival in your car as
you’re commuting to work at 6 o’clock on a Monday EDITOR-IN-CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHY
Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne RMI Media
morning. You can have revival in the midst of adverse
circumstances.
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF MINISTRY CHRONICLES OFREVIVAL 03
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On December 1, 1996, for the first morning service, from the Supreme Court, to the White House, to the
Christ
575 people joined them. Executive Branch, Congress, and the Senate – in the
• In 2005, Good News Mamelodi: 113,000 decisions
name of Jesus. He commanded the church in America
for Christ
Soon after The River Church was planted, the River Bible to wake up – for the people of God to come out of their
• In 2006, Good News Mdantsane: 70,489 decisions
Institute, which is now River University, was launched slumber. He declared that it is time to take the land.
for Christ
in 1997, with the theme: Training Up Revivalists for the
Twenty-first Century. In 2006, Visakhapatnam, India, Good News Vizag
was conducted where 55,000 precious people made
Because of a dream that the Lord gave him, Dr. Rodney decisions for Christ.
rented Madison Square Garden, the world’s most
famous arena, in 1999 for six weeks in New York City. It Also in 2006, crusades were conducted in Australia,
was in New York that the Lord gave this ministry a tool New Zealand, Tasmania, and more – preaching the
for individual believers to use to win souls called the Gospel with signs and wonders following.
Gospel Soul Winning Script. With daily soul winning on
the streets and nightly meetings at the venue, 48,459 Knowing that the only hope for America is another
people made decisions for Jesus Christ. Great Spiritual Awakening, the Great Awakening Tours
were launched in 2007. Fifty-six cities were impacted
In 2000, Drs. Rodney and Adonica went to Shreveport, with thousands of believers mobilized to win the lost
Louisiana, and conducted a six-week soul-winning at any cost and 1.1 million reported decisions for
campaign: Good News Shreveport-Bossier at the Hirsch Jesus Christ. Altar calls, market place evangelism,
Memorial Coliseum. Again, with daily soul winning on one-on-one evangelism, reaching the schools, college
the streets and nightly meetings at the venue, 59,247 campuses, retirement homes, and the prisons were all
individuals committed their lives to Jesus Christ! From 2014 to 2019, Dr. Rodney has returned to D.C. to
part of the strategy for reaching the lost.
conduct Celebrate America. In the course of fifty days
For fourteen years, Drs. Rodney and Adonica in D.C. through the nightly altar calls and evangelism
Drs. Rodney and Adonica became naturalized citizens
conducted two meetings a day, six days a week, and efforts on the streets and in the halls of Congress,
of the United States of America in 2008 and 2004
logged in over 7,000 meetings, spreading the Gospel 58,033 individuals made decisions for Jesus Christ.
respectively.
and reviving the Church. In November 2017, the 300 City Tour was launched
with the goal of reaching 300 cities before the end
In 2009, 50 Days of Glory in East London, South Africa
In the summer of 2001, the new property for RMI’s of 2020. As of January 2020, 146 cities have been
was launched on television, impacting thousands of
World Headquarters, The River at Tampa Bay Church, reached with 106,496 in attendance, 38,994 decisions
precious lives: 219 cities touched by the power of God
and River University was acquired – eighty-three acres for Christ, and 54,834 believers mobilized and trained
resulting in over 300,000 decisions for Christ.
with 1,300 floodlit parking bays. to win souls.
January of 2011, Bob and Jane D’Andrea of Christian
Early on Christmas morning 2002, Drs. Rodney and With a passion for souls and a passion to revive and
Television Network (CTN), also having a heart for
Adonica’s second daughter, Kelly, at the early age of mobilize the body of Christ, Drs. Rodney and Adonica
souls and for America, partnered with RMI and
eighteen, ran out of lung capacity and breathed out her have conducted revivals and soul-winning efforts
launched the Great Awakening Broadcast that has
last breath. She had fought a battle with an incurable throughout eighty-three nations with the 300 City Tour,
now reached millions of people through the airwaves
lung disease called Cystic Fibrosis. They placed her Good News campaigns, R.M.I. Revivals, and the Great
and is mobilizing the body of Christ to win souls and
into the arms of her Lord and Savior and then vowed a Awakening Tours.
bring in the harvest of souls for the glory of God. Since
vow. First, they vowed that the devil would pay for what
January 2011, over one hundred countries and 4,000
he had done to their family. Secondly, they vowed to do Forty years later, running with the fire of God:
cities have been touched by this ministry, reporting
everything in their power, with the help of the Lord, to • Eighty-three nations have been impacted
over 22,337,150 decisions for Jesus Christ.
win one million souls to Jesus and to put $1 billion into • Millions of people have been revived
world missions and the harvest of souls. • Tens of thousands of believers have been mobilized
to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ
In 2003, the Lord directed Dr. Rodney to stay at his • 27,330,150 recorded decisions for Jesus Christ
home base in Tampa and to command the harvest to
come in. As a result, millions of people were reached “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it
through global satellite television. is day: the night cometh, when no man can work”
(John 9:4, KJV).
Also in 2003, in the month of April, Good News Tampa
Bay was launched with the goal of reaching 100,000
decisions for Christ. Hundreds of believers were
mobilized and thrust into the harvest field, winning
the lost at any cost. As a result, 108,664 decisions for
Jesus Christ in the Greater Tampa Bay were made.
South Africa was the next focus with four massive soul- In 2014, Celebrate America D.C. was launched at the
winning campaigns: Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution
Hall – just 500 yards from the White House. During this
• In 2004, Good News Soweto: 206,445 decisions for event, Dr. Rodney executed a restraining order against
Christ the structure that is holding America in captivity –
• In 2005, Good News Umlazi: 286,750 decisions for binding it and rendering it powerless and ineffective
04 CHRONICLES OFREVIVAL 300 CITY TOUR
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Australasia
Ablaze 2020
UPCOMING TOUR CITIES
February 2 February 13
February 4 February 14
February 5 February 16
February 6 February 17
c a n ta k e w i t h u s
Gold Coast, Australia Jakarta, Indonesia
City #150 of 300 City #159 of 300
February 7 February 18 w h e n w e l e av e t h e
Brisbane, Australia Bali, Indonesia
e a r t h i s peo ple .
City #151 of 300 City #160 of 300
February 9 February 19
February 10 February 20
February 11 February 21
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada | City #120 of 300 Seoul, South Korea | City #132 of 300
Attendance: 141 | Altar Call: 84 | People Mobilized for the Harvest: 96 Attendance: 530 | Altar Call: 500 | People Mobilized for the Harvest: 369
Grande Prairie, AB, Canada | City #121 of 300 Maui, Hawaii | City #133 of 300
Attendance: 610 | Altar Call: 239 | People Mobilized for the Harvest: 391 Attendance: 940 | Altar Call: 201 | People Mobilized for the Harvest: 735
ASIA ABLAZE 2019 Edmonton, AB, Canada | City #122 of 300 South Africa Ablaze 2019
Attendance: 727 | Altar Call: 325 | People Mobilized for the Harvest: 417
Pretoria, South Africa | City #134 of 300
Asia Ablaze 2019 Attendance: 2145 | Altar Call: 426 | People Mobilized for the Harvest:
1716
Anchorage, Alaska | City #123 of 300
Attendance: 646 | Altar Call: 262 | People Mobilized for the Harvest: 390
Ecclesiastes 11:1, 6 (AMPC) – Cast your bread upon the waters, for Become a Giver In Every Area of Your Life
you will find it after many days. In the morning sow your seed, and in the
evening withhold not your hands, for you know not which shall prosper, The Bible says, “The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters
whether this or that, or whether both alike will be good. will also be watered himself” (Proverbs 11:25). Show me somebody who is
a giver, and I’ll show you somebody who is a reaper. Show me somebody
This passage of Scripture talks about sowing and planting seed. It is who’s a stingy tight-wad, and I will show you somebody who’s always in
interesting to note that today, in certain circles, money is called bread. lack.
Have you heard that expression: “Hey, Joe, did you bring the bread?” I
want you to realize that the very thing that will stop you and hinder you Even so, some people are not in lack because they’re stingy. They lack
from sowing is what will stop you and hinder you from reaping. because they simply spend too much money. If your outgo exceeds your
income, then your upkeep is going to be your downfall. People come to
If you are waiting for every condition to be favorable, you will never sow, me and say, “Brother Rodney, the devil is attacking my finances.” If you are
and you will never reap. Some people have come to us and said, “Brother that kind of spender, the devil doesn’t need to attack you. You are doing
Rodney, one day, when everything is just wonderful, we are going to get it yourself. It’s you who wrote that check or your wife who has the credit
behind your ministry and support it.” We have been waiting for years. cards. Don’t blame the devil.
Every time I see them, I ask, “How are you doing?” Their response is, “Ah,
brother, we’re just waiting. We have a big oil deal coming through.” If this is your problem, ask God to give you wisdom. Then you won’t spend
money you don’t have to buy things to please people you don’t even like.
Instead of just doing things systematically and working the small stuff, You won’t end up with things you never use. Have you ever turned on the
these people are always waiting for some big deal. It’s usually an television and been told what you need? Have you ever bought from the
astronomical figure like $40 million that is just going to come through. home shopping club? It’s amazing how people seem to find money to get
Every time you talk to them, they say, “It’ll be another month, but it’ll come the things they want. If they desperately want it, they find the money to
through. Things are hung up somewhere in Switzerland. It’s going through get it. I always make religious devils mad when I talk along this subject of
government channels, and it’s hung up.” giving. It doesn’t take long. As the truth is presented, they hit the door.
Well, I have found out that it isn’t the millionaires who finance the Gospel. Purpose in your heart to become a giver in every area of your life. As you
It’s the little widow woman with the two mites, the little bit of oil, and the plant in the morning and in the evening, God’s blessings will overtake you.
little bit of meal. Those are the people who support the Gospel.
The Bible talks about seed time and harvest. When you sow, you’re
planting a seed. If you have children, you know that the many hours you In Thoughts on Stewardship, Rodney Howard-Browne provides practical
spend every day with them are a seed you are planting into their lives. And insights on the laws of seedtime and harvest and the immense provision
you expect to see a return in the years to come. God has made for His people. God has a plan to bless His people
financially. Knowing that God wants to meet your needs is not enough.
A good farmer who plows up a field and plants seed is going to wait for the You have to stand on His Word, appropriate His promises, act on them
harvest. You don’t go to a farmer and tell him, “Look, I know you’re planting daily, and hide them in your heart. You will see from the Word of God that
a field here but don’t really expect a harvest.” He’s going to look at you prosperity is God’s plan.
and say, “What do you mean? That’s why I am here. I’m planting so that I
can reap a harvest.” Don’t let some religious dingbat tell you that you are
meant to give but that you really shouldn’t expect to receive anything in
return.
Some people only reap every month because they only sow every month.
Others reap once a year because they only sow once a year. When I read
Ecclesiastes 11:6a, “In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening Thoughts on Stewardship
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My fiancée Stephanie and I grabbed ahold of We held a Super Soulwinning Saturday In 2015, I was diagnosed with congestive heart
the teachings on sowing and reaping taught with our River Kids, ages six to twelve. We failure. I was told that I had a 50/50 chance
every Sunday at The River. We knew that when trained them on how to use the Gospel of living another five years. In 2016, I was
we wanted to get married that the Lord would
Soulwinning Script and took them out to diagnosed with prostate cancer, so I figured it
pay for our wedding. So we stepped out in faith,
sowed, and claimed the scripture Romans 8:28, a local mall to win souls. Each one made was a good time to go to the River School of
“And we know that all things work together for a soul goal, and in just under an hour, Healing. After attending and having my mind
good to them that love God, to them who are the with thirty-four kids, 285 people gave renewed to the Word of God, I believed that the
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of Heaven rejoices over one sinner who done, and I am now living cancer free! In
Three weeks before our wedding, we were
comes to repentance. God is raising up school, as we were praising and worshiping the
still standing in faith that the money was going
to come in. The devil would try to get us in a mighty army of soulwinners who are Lord, I began to feel a warmth in my chest, and
fear, but we resisted him. We spent time in full of the fire of God and not ashamed to I knew that the Lord was also healing my heart.
prayer, winning souls, and holding fast to our preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The The doctors told me that it was impossible
confession. Bible reads, “Freely you have received, – I had an incurable disease. But I now feel
freely give” (Matthew 10:8). We’ve been stronger. I’m energized and have no shortness
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10 Nights: November 2004
through her body, and now she can walk without a cane.
Good News Umlazi was a nation shaking event, and we saw thousands of lives changed over this
ten-day period. Eric and Jennifer Gonyon did a superb job on Good News Umlazi for us as they
did on Good News Soweto. We had the cooperation of 275 churches and pastors. We had sixteen
giant billboards, put up 7,000 posters, handed out 700,000 flyers, and paid for 1,000 buses over the
course of ten days of the demonstration of the power of God in the King Zwelithini Soccer Stadium.
Every night, we preached a soul-winning message, gave an altar call for salvation, ministered on the
baptism of the Holy Spirit, and prayed with the people to be filled, to speak in other tongues, and to
be filled with the joy of the Lord. Then we prayed for all those who needed healing as they placed
their hands on the sick part of their body.
We had an accumulated attendance of over 539,000 people over the ten-day crusade, and we also
broadcasted live over three radio stations – one secular rock station, and two Christian stations.
Over 1 million people listen to these stations, which broadcast in a 120-mile radius. We had over
286,750 souls saved in the stadium and many more over the radio. Many people were wonderfully
healed, both in the stadium and at home, listening to the radio. We heard many stories of people
gathering around the radio with all their friends and family every night to listen to the singing and
preaching. Every day, people came in to tell us how they were saved, healed, filled with the Holy
Spirit, and touched by the power of God, listening to the radio in their homes! The rock station was
very excited at the viewer response to GNU and all the phone calls they received.
We had blind eyes opened; ears were opened; bones and joints were healed; people could walk,
bend, and dance without assistance; pain left, demons left; epileptics were cured and went from ten
seizures a day to nothing for the whole week! We had many people healed of asthma and sugar
diabetes, who were able to come totally off of their medication. Some of them even brought their
doctors along to testify! It was a very successful ten days!
Mamelodi is a township of about one million people just outside of the city of Pretoria,
an hour north of Johannesburg, South Africa. This was our third mass crusade in our
home country of South Africa.
In preparation for the crusade, we set up our offices right on the crusade grounds.
When our team first got there, the office buildings were quite a mess. Just as in Umlazi,
we paid for lights to be installed on the bleachers and left them there, so we sowed
into Mamelodi by repairing and refurbishing these buildings. We repaired the broken
windows, installed security bars, and fixed and painted the offices, so the community
will be able to use them after we leave.
We did a huge advertising campaign to cover the entire area; we were able to distribute
1.3 million handbills, put up 7,000 posters, and posted eleven major billboards. We also
ran a huge newspaper campaign in four major South African newspapers. The city was
buzzing with excitement when we arrived. We were met at the airport in Johannesburg
by a group of people from the choir with a big welcome banner. They were so excited
about GNM and very appreciative that we were coming to their city. We were so moved.
They sang and danced for us right in the arrivals hall with all the other passengers and
their friends and families looking on. It was a wonderful welcome. When we went to the
field, we received an equally warm welcome, except this time from the whole choir, and
also our precious volunteers. The 500-voice choir all bought their own T-shirts and also
paid for their own transportation to all the rehearsals and the five nights of the crusade.
This is quite a sacrifice for people who do not have their own vehicles and who do not
have much money to spare!
In all of these townships, they tell us that you can never get more than thirty pastors at
a time to show up for anything, and we had nearly 300 pastors show up for our pastor’s
meeting. We had over 400 churches participate in the crusade with us, and we also
had over 500 people, from many different churches, participate in the Mamelodi Mass
Choir.
We had four radio stations broadcast the crusade live every night. These stations
reach over one million people in the area. Two were Christian stations, and two were
secular stations. The radio stations received stacks of SMS messages (text messages)
of people with testimonies and prayer requests who responded from the live radio
broadcast.
We saw thousands of people touched by the power of the Holy Spirit. We truly believe
that this city and region will never be the same again. We had over 219,500 people in
attendance, and we had over 113,000 recorded decisions for Christ in only five nights.
We ran approximately 507 buses during the whole week.
From June 7-11, 2006, we went back to South Africa for a mass crusade in the Mdantsane
Township outside the city of East London in the Eastern Cape. Mdantsane is one of the largest
townships in South Africa. Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne was born and raised in the Eastern Cape
in the land of the Xhosa. The Xhosa tribe is one of the largest tribes in South Africa. As a
teenager, still in high school, he had some of his first ministry experiences, preaching in the mud
huts of the Transkei!
This was the biggest crusade ever held in that area. We had a combined attendance of 94,000.
On the biggest night, we had a crowd of 27,000 people, and over the five days, 70,489 people
gave their lives to Jesus. This was all in spite of major transportation problems; the taxis don’t
allow the buses into Mdantsane, and sometimes gunfire is even exchanged. The favor of God
was all over this crusade. Pastors told us that through the cooperation of the different ministries
and churches with GNMD, God healed some breaches and misunderstanding and brought a
Spirit of unity and mutual respect to relationships between ministers. You know—everywhere we
go—we want to leave the place better than when we came. We want to leave a deposit of God’s
grace and blessing!
On January 10-14, 2006, we ministered in Visakhapatnam, India for five days in a mass soul-
winning crusade called Good News Vizag that was organized by American evangelist Mark
Swiger, who has conducted more than fifty crusades all over India. It was quite an ordeal
just to get there, taking more than fifty hours in all, and included an unscheduled twelve-
hour wild ride from about 4:30 p.m. on Saturday to nearly 5 a.m. Sunday from Hyderabad to
Visakhapatnam with a driver who did not speak English. This was a 670 kilometer (420 mile)
drive that should have taken no more than nine hours, and most of it was spent trying to keep
our driver awake!
We dodged buses, taxis, trucks, motorbikes, cows, goats, and people with plenty of near
misses. Fortunately, we know that our lives are in God’s hands, and the angels are watching Good News crusades grand totals:
over us at all times until the Lord is done with us here on earth. So we can afford to walk in 5 Mass Crusades
peace and joy in almost any circumstance! The crusade workers stayed up all night to greet 35 Nights
us, and when we arrived, they welcomed us with showers of flower petals and fireworks in the Soweto 206,445
middle of the road, stopping all traffic while they did it. It was certainly an arrival to remember! Umlazi 286,750
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When we arrived, we found out that there were several Pentecostal churches involved,
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and they held meetings for the Christians in the mornings. We preached a couple of times
in the morning and so did Eric Gonyon, our international crusade director. It was a good Vizag 55,000
opportunity to minister to the Christians on revival and see them impacted by the power of Total 731,684
God. Thousands of people felt the anointing of God for the first time ever. They were filled with
the Holy Spirit, speaking in other tongues, shaking, crying, and laughing. Many children were
powerfully touched by God as well. There were even pastors who fell out under the power
of God for the first time ever in their lives. Even though the meeting was scheduled at a bad
time, in the middle of a major Hindu festival, we still had a great response with 55,000 people
giving their lives to the Lord. Many people were baptized in the Holy Spirit, and many were
wonderfully healed and delivered – some of excruciating pain that they had suffered with for
many years. Many people reported seeing a light or a ball of fire coming toward them and
hitting them at the moment that they received their healing!
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