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CRASH ENDS FRIENDS' DREAM CHURCH GROUP WAS PREPARING FOR MISSIONARY PROJECT Series: TRAGEDY OF FLIGHT 592: AFTERMATH

DONNA PAZDERA Staff Writer Contributing to these reports were staff members Jody Benjamin, David Cazares, Berenice Chauvet, Jim Di Paola, Mike Folks, Ardy Friedberg, Scott Gold, John Grogan, Lisa J. Huriash, Sallie James, Ken Kaye, Larry Keller, Lane

1996

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-- Carlos Gonzalez, the church's missions director, who was a week shy of celebrating the one-year anniversary of his arrival in the United States from Venezuela. -- Lila Violeta, Gonzalez's teen-age niece. -- Roger and Dana Lane, newlyweds, who had just learned enough Spanish so they could minister in South America and teach English to Venezuelan children. The group spent a week in Venezuela staying with Gonzalez's relatives. They met with religious leaders to lay the foundation for a project they wanted to complete by summer, [Nathan] Sycks said. They wanted to build a church on a boat that would sail South American rivers.

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