Unfortunate, but I found my answer elsewhere.
For those interested in a similar approached, please see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29234517/querying-advanced-custom-fields-want-to-paginate-the-results
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dkeeling, thanks so much for your assistance on this! I greatly appreciate it!
I have one additional questions — is there an easy way to strip the styling of the field being brought in? The client has some bolding/italicizing of text that I need to be stripped during the function you suggested above.
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