Hi, I'm Jonathan Lehman.

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Today, I want to think about the Great Commission with a couple of friends of mine,

but not the Great Commission in the way you might ordinarily think about it

in terms of mission strategies or sending missionaries and so forth,

but about books and in particular what the role of international publishing is in relation to the great

commission and to help me do that I have Rick Denham Daniel Henderson and Dave Adams and

brothers could you each and what we have in some sense is Portuguese though of course Rick

I know you're a lot more than that and then then we have French and we have Spanish, right?

Just as a sampling here.

Brothers, can each of you introduce yourself, Rick?

Yeah, my name is Rick Denham, born and raised in Brazil.

And I just came from a publishing background because that's what my parents were doing since

1966.

In Brazil.

Yes, in Brazil.

Fiel publishing. Yep, which means faithful. That was the goal is to be faithful and just helping support pastors and their theological

training. And now you're international director for nine marks. Exactly. And then today,

after this ministry like Fiel has been doing that, serving the Portuguese

role for decades, the opportunity has come.

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