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Scripture: Jeremiah 29:4-7, Revelation 7:9-17 A Sermon Preached by Dennis Alexander on April 29, 2007 When a missionary arrives at their field of service, the first task is to experience first hand their new surroundings. To see it with new eyes "as if they have never been there before!" On the mission field, gone are any notions of staying within the walls of your compound or working in your office - daily the missionary interacts with their new context. Often established churches need to get out of their buildings and into their surrounding communities as if we had just arrived for the first time on the scene. We need to see our communities with a set of "new eyes" and interact afresh with the people who live around our church buildings.