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Reidhead's involvement with the
Sudanese also inspired him to seek a means to enable impoverished people in developing nations to help themselves and their families rise out of poverty. Third World development became his full-time commitment in 1966. His vision of public-private funding for
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philosophies contradictory to
Biblical teaching. The end of all being, he came to believe, was not the happiness of man, but the glorification of God. This theme would recur throughout his later teaching.
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to pioneer a program through which government and private funds were used for economic development in the Third World. His efforts to implement local programs on this model took him to mission fields in
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A spiritual crisis during this period - as he described two decades later in what is probably his best-known recorded teaching, "Ten
Shekels and a Shirt" - left Reidhead with the conviction that much of
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movement and in 1953 began teaching at national conferences. Three years later he took a position as pastor at New York City's Gospel
Tabernacle, which had been established in 1887 by
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border. His proficiency in tribal languages was noted by his contemporaries. Reidhead's experiences in Sudan deeply impacted the core values that would later guide his life.
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in 1992. He was married to
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that works in partnership with local
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Reidhead was born in a
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economic development led, in 1971, to the formation of the
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311:"Ten Shekels and a Shirt" free audio recording
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255:Ten Shekels and a Shirt - Audio
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217:Getting Evangelicals Saved.
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224:References
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722:See also
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