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		<title>The New Church Energy Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Two are better than one, for they have a good return for their labor” Eccl. 4:9. That’s a basic principle behind our new initiative, the Church Energy Network. The Network functions by having many churches participate and providing them with our network of service providers. We start with services that provide savings for churches at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus on Ministry &#8211; Fabre Street Pentecostal Church &#8211; Montreal, Quebec, Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community outreach is at the center of the vision of Fabre Street Pentecostal Church. This congregation, located in Montreal, Quebec, has been serving the Italian-Canadian community since 1920. Their ministries continue to grow as they effectively make disciples of all ages. A look at the church’s vision for the future showed the leadership that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Christian&#8221; Gardens?</title>
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		<comments>http://theministrycafe.com/2010/07/christian-gardens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A thought provoking question was posed to me recently: “what is a distinctly “Christian” garden?” I thought I’d try to answer it in this blog to conclude the subject of gardens over the past month. It is easier to answer “what is a “Buddhist” garden?” than “what is a Christian garden”, since the garden style [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardens as Places of Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve heard it said that “prayer began in a garden” (meaning the Garden of Eden), but I don’t think that’s true. In the simplest sense of the word, prayer is people communicating TO God. In Eden, there was two-way communication between God and people, what would be better termed “communion”. Prayer began when face-to-face communion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gardens are full of rich Biblical significance.  There are several different uses of the term ‘garden’ in the Bible. Often it is an agricultural application, referring to vineyards, groves of fruit trees or vegetable plots.  (Jeremiah 29:5 , Deuteronomy 11:10 ). In other applications, it is primarily an outdoor environment; a place of beauty for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardens for our God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I get a new album that I really like, I tend to play it repeatedly until it plays in my head independent of any listening device. Such has been the case with Phil Wickham’s latest release, Heaven &#38; Earth. The opening song, Eden, poetically expresses a longing to return to a place of origin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Did Not Know about my Alma Mater</title>
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		<comments>http://theministrycafe.com/2010/05/what-i-did-not-know-about-my-alma-mater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 18:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s funny, the things that exist right under your nose that you’re unaware of. Knowing that I’m involved with helping churches build facilities, a fellow Temple University alum sent me an e-mail this morning which explains how the original church – The Baptist Temple – and the grounds which became Temple University were paid for. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Hope for the Future &#8211; Congregational Involvement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As architects, we have the benefit of knowing how a plan for a church develops so that it will lead to the completion of a successful project. This involvement gives us great excitement as we see the plan being implemented. Unfortunately, members of the congregation are not so involved causing them to lose the excitement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus on Ministry; Woodside Presbyterian Church &#8211; Yardley, PA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leaders at Woodside Presbyterian Church caught our attention with the creative ways in which they engaged their congregation throughout the entire process of planning and building an addition to their facility. They recently moved into their new spaces—an expanded sanctuary (designed as a multi-purpose space) with a new sound system, a gracious fellowship lobby, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vision-casting on the Web</title>
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		<comments>http://theministrycafe.com/2010/05/vision-casting-on-the-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good building project website will offer an opportunity for congregational feedback and answer the following questions: Why? The most important part of a building project website is that it clearly explains the vision and answers the question “Why are we engaged in a building project?” What? Next, it is important to give some details [...]]]></description>
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