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Pastor Ted Schulz who serves as pastor of Shepherd of the Valley, in Dayton Virginia shares the story of two happenstance encounters with individuals from our global companion synod, the New Guinea Islands District of [...]https://vasynod.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Schultz-1-rotated.jpg480640