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(RNS1-OCT8) The Rev. Sam Childers, who calls himself the Machine Gun Preacher, speaks to a crowd at Grace Community Baptist Church in Trenton, Ill. Childers, former drug dealer and motorcycle gang member, found Jesus during a mission trip to Sudan. For use with RNS-PREACHER-SUDAN, transmitted Oct. 8, 2010. Religion News Service photo by Emily Rasinski/The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

(RNS1-OCT8) The Rev. Sam Childers, who calls himself the Machine Gun Preacher, speaks to a crowd at Grace Community Baptist Church in Trenton, Ill. Childers, former drug dealer and motorcycle gang member, found Jesus during a mission trip to Sudan. For use with RNS-PREACHER-SUDAN, transmitted Oct. 8, 2010. Religion News Service photo by Emily Rasinski/The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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