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Why bother? Still, she prayed for guidance and God answered quickly! A Di erent Message "The next day I turned on the television and heard this blue-eyed man saying things I'd never heard," Roxanne remembers. "He said God was good! That was news to me. If He was so good, why had He taken my parents so young?" The man she heard speaking turned out to be Kenneth Copeland. "He challenged a whole lot of what I'd been taught," said Roxanne. "I just couldn't get enough." After learning from the broadcast she was watching that Brother Copeland would be preaching at an upcoming meeting in Anaheim, Calif., Roxanne and a friend arranged to attend the meeting. Weeks later, a spiritually hungry Roxanne found herself in attendance at another of Brother Copeland's meetings—this one in Fort Worth, Texas. It was the Southwest Believers' Convention. Not long after that meeting, Roxanne came across some books by another man she was not familiar with, Kenneth E. Hagin from Tulsa, Okla. While his teachings grabbed her attention, because they were similar to what Brother Copeland taught, Roxanne didn't take to them as quickly. "I read them and got mad," Roxanne remembers. "I thought he was arrogant and full of himself." That's when she heard the voice of the Lord say to her, He's right. You're wrong. "From that day forward, I ran full force into the Word of Faith message," Roxanne recalls. In 1987, she and her friend returned to the Southwest Believers' Convention. This time, they brought 18 other believers along with them. "We've never missed a meeting since," she said. In 1990, Roxanne's zeal for the Word of Faith led her to start a home Bible study. It quickly grew to about 42 people. "I just wanted people to hear and know what I was learning." Called To Pastor "I fi nally went back to church," said Roxanne, "and the fi rst time I was there the pastor called me out. She said, 'You're a teacher and you have a prophetic gift.' "I fi gured that must be right. Back when I was 21, I connected with some Pentecostals who got me baptized in the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. Two weeks later, I started prophesying. I didn't know what I was doing. I just knew things. Still, nothing was as exciting to me as learning how to live by faith in God's Word." For a while, Roxanne served as children's pastor for a church in Austin, Texas, but was soon called to be the assistant pastor at another church in San Marcos, Texas. During that time, she was asked to help lead one of the pastor's two churches. In 1995 Roxanne and Deb Field, her then-business partner, rented a small building on the side of a county road to use as a teaching center. One day, as Deb tried desperately to cut down waist-high weeds on the property with a lawn mower, a worker who had been mowing grass for the county drove up. "Hey, ma'am! Move out of the way! I'll knock this down in fi ve minutes!" the man said. Within minutes, the job was done. That incident, the two realized, was not just a random act of kindness by some good Samaritan. It led them to establish a faith statement that would guide them spiritually for years to come: "Just start, because the big tractor is coming!" The fi rst "big tractor" showed up when their business had fallen into heavy debt, Roxanne recalls. This time it came in the form of employment that helped to eradicate their debt in about eight months. "I preached at a Women's Aglow meeting and some people from Marble Falls, Texas, 1 4 : B V O V Old Testament New Testament APRIL READ THROUGH THE BIBLE Mon 1 Deut. 2:16-4:14 Luke 22 Tue 2 Deut. 4:15-5:33 Luke 23 Wed 3 Deut. 6:1-8:10 Luke 24 Thu 4 Deut. 8:11-10:22 John 1 Fri 5 Deut. 11-12 John 2 Sat 6 Deut. 13:1-15:11 Sun 7 Ps. 42-44; Prov. 9 Mon 8 Deut. 15:12-18:8 John 3 Tue 9 Deut. 18:9-21:9 John 4 Wed 10 Deut. 21:10-23:18 John 5 Thu 11 Deut. 23:19-26:15 John 6 Fri 12 Deut. 26:16-28:32 John 7 Sat 13 Deut. 28:33-29:29 Sun 14 Ps. 45-48; Prov. 10:1-17 Mon 15 Deut. 30:1-32:14 John 8 Tue 16 Deut. 32:15-33:29 John 9 Wed 17 Deut. 34:1-Josh. 3:8 John 10 Thu 18 Josh. 3:9-6:11 John 11 Fri 19 Josh. 6:12-8:23 John 12 Sat 20 Josh. 8:24-10:27 Sun 21 Ps. 49-50; Prov. 10:18-32 Mon 22 Josh. 10:28-12:24 John 13 Tue 23 Josh. 13:1-15:12 John 14 Wed 24 Josh. 15:13-16:10 John 15 Thu 25 Josh. 17:1-19:16 John 16 Fri 26 Josh. 19:17-21:19 John 17 Sat 27 Josh. 21:20-22:34 Sun 28 Ps. 51-55; Prov. 11:1-23 Mon 29 Josh. 23:1- John 18 Jdgs. 1:15 Tue 30 Jdgs. 1:16-3:11 John 19

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