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		<title>Helping Kids Fall In Love With Jesus</title>
		<link>http://nedgable.com/2009/helping-kids-fall-in-love-with-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid I loved the Chronicles of Narnia written by C.S. Lewis. I still love the books, but when I was young they completely captivated me. Long before I could read on my own, my mom used to read to me. Whenever we would go on long car trips she would choose books to read to my brother,  sister and me. (these were the days before in car DVD players) She read all types of books but the Chronicles of Narnia were always my favorite.]]></description>
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		<title>How&#8217;s your vision?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago Rick Warren posted a tweet that went something like this,

    “You don’t have a giving problem, you have a vision problem. People don’t give to need they give to vision.”

I’m not sure you could say that any better and with the situation many churches are facing in the current economy, his advice is even more relevant. As I was thinking about this tweet it occurred to me, the same thing is true with volunteers.

    “You don’t have a volunteer problem you have a vision problem.”]]></description>
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		<title>How not to recruit</title>
		<link>http://nedgable.com/2009/how-not-to-recruit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, what are we doing to recruit volunteers? I’m glad you asked… but let me start with what we haven’t done.

We haven’t publicized our need. We haven’t asked for help from the pulpit or in the bulletin. We haven’t held any enlistment campaigns. We haven’t sent letters of flyers home to parents (we did do this once a couple of years ago but we probably won’t again). We haven’t made “cold calls” to people not serving. We haven’t required people to serve… ok, enough of that. I think you get the picture.]]></description>
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		<title>What if churches were football teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I were talking after dinner and got into a funny conversation. We started by discussing how to explain who certain prominent children's pastors were to her nursing colleagues. You know like Jim Wideman might be Bret Farve. (not that he has trouble making up his mind but he's been around a long time and has had a lot of success) Reggie Joiner might be Peyton Manning (very cerebral). It kina broke down after that maybe you have some better comparisons.]]></description>
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		<title>Need more volunteers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone who serves in children's ministry has one thing in common. We need more volunteers. I've heard of the elusive "waiting list" to serve in children's ministry, and I'm sure it exists somewhere,  but I've never seen it. What I've seen more often is that as soon as we enlist more volunteers, God sends more kids. In truth, this is where I want to be, first because it means the kingdom is growing and second because it keeps us looking to God to provide for us.]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the &#8220;Church&#8221; Box</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the volunteers in our children’s ministry is the CEO of a large company. I had the opportunity to meet with him yesterday to talk about the children’s ministry at our church. I thought I was meeting with him to help him understand what we’re trying to do in children’s ministry…

That’s not exactly how it went down.]]></description>
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		<title>Lead the Leader &#8211; Pt 1</title>
		<link>http://nedgable.com/2009/lead-the-leader-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I introduced a series of posts based on lessons I learned in a workshop I attended years ago. (apparently it was MANY years ago if you listen to some of those who commented on the post ☺) The workshop was called “Growing the Children’s Ministry You’ve Always Wanted” and it was presented by Gordon and Becky West. The principles I learned there have had a huge impact on my ministry and I wanted to pass them on in hopes that you will find them equally valuable]]></description>
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		<title>More Than &#8220;Just&#8221; A Volunteer</title>
		<link>http://nedgable.com/2009/more-than-just-a-volunteer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got back form the hospital. I was there to visit Sarah. Sarah is a beautiful little three-year-old girl who has cancer. I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s much on the planet that makes less sense to me than that. Never the less, I went by to spend some time with Sarah and her Mom and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child Dedications</title>
		<link>http://nedgable.com/2009/child-dedications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Kenny Conley wrote a series of posts about Parent/Child Dedications. You should check out what he wrote he's got some great thoughts.

Here's part of my response to his post.

First let me say that I have wonderful staff. Patti Jo Mackey and Jenni Bowman are the main reasons our dedications are successful. Here's what they do.]]></description>
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		<title>Start Right</title>
		<link>http://nedgable.com/2009/start-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you're thinking about starting a blog? Do you know about: hosting, urls, domain names, plugins, permalinks, php, .htaccess, apachee, index.php, seo, site redirects, mod_rewrites, widgets, ftp, chmod  or the difference between 0644 and 0777 (besides 133 :) ) Well, I do, but I'd suggest that you not.]]></description>
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