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"Amazingly, it began as a need for streamlining here at the International Offices. From there, it became a prayer, a search for inspiration with the General Presbyters, then the Administrative Committee. The more we talked about it and the more we thought about it, the more we felt an inspiration that God was calling us to three central core values. As a matter of fact, at first it was just two. We just knew that we must be about the harvest; that was God's word for this church from 1994 on. And, then, because harvesting in some places was booming, we were desperate to develop leaders. That became an easy second value. Then, along the way, one of our General Presbyters said, 'You know, you believe in prayer so much, why isn't prayer another one of those core values?' And it just clicked with everyone."
Bishop Randall E. Howard
