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On Monday night, Johnny Bench, Hall of Fame catcher for the Cincinnati Reds, spoke at the fundraising banquet for our Boys and Girls Clubs in the area. About 400-people attended and it was a great evening that raised a lot of money for the Clubs in our community. Johnny Bench
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The Homeless Camera Adventure, photo by Troy. Isn't the internet wonderful? I'm surfing Technorati for missional stuff, and I find my friend Jerry's blog, Becoming Missional. His latest post is about The Homeless Camera Adventure. These folks give homeless people disposable cameras, then post
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Homeless Nation.org* is a Canadian website created by and for the homeless. In their own words, here is their mission: There are tens of thousands of homeless people in Canada, with no address, no vote, nameless and faceless, and yet there is almost no documentation (statistical or personal) made
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Small churches usually don't have an advertising budget, or if they do it's too small to be effective. But, relax my small-church friend because you don't need an ad budget. Here's why: 1. Trendwatching.com says that only 13% of consumers admit
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I am proposing a new model for small church ministry. It is not a model that you have read about or seen advertised. No seminars or conferences about this model exist. There is no notebook, website, CD, or video link. Yet, it is so obvious that we have missed it
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Several years ago I was pastoring in North Carolina. A young mother with two kids started attending our church. Every Sunday morning the father would drop mom and the kids off at church, then return to pick them up after the 11 am service. Debbie worked in the preschool department
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Easter is the biggest day of the Christian year! It's the resurrection of Christ, the defeat of death, the victory over sin and the grave, the hope of humanity, and the promise of new life for people everywhere. And, people are more likely to go to church on
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Coming up next: A great idea for Easter Outreach -- stay tuned! Okay, I am going way out on a limb here because I am tired of the social gospel vs. evangelism debate. And I know the history -- the social gospel emerged at the turn of the twentieth century
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Several years ago my dad was a church library consultant for the Baptist Sunday School Board. One of his assignments was to conduct church library conferences at churches around the country. At one conference, he asked for reports about the status of the participants' church libraries. One dear lady
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My friend Josh is pastor of a church in Monrovia, California. It's a new church, planted because of an encounter with God. Josh tells the story this way: "I was a youth pastor at a church near Monrovia. Each Wednesday I would spend the morning with my
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My good friend from high school days, Jim Stovall, is professor of journalism at the University of Tennessee. Peyton Manning, quarterback for Indianapolis Colts, is a former Tennessee Vol. Beginning to see a pattern here? So, Jim's students run a student news site, and they're up
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I can see stuff you can't. No, I don't mean I can see stuff like Haley Joel Osment -- "I see dead people." As my three-year-old grandson said about stuff like that -- "Too scawy." He meant scary. You had to be