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		<title>Looking Back, Part 1: A Timeline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about writing a series of retrospectives on our journey to launching Grasslands Church for a few days now.  I am thinking that for those who are out there thinking about planting a church or trying to get ideas about how they should go about doing it, it would be a helpful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plantingonfaith.com/2012/02/looking-back-part-1-a-timeline/</link>
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		<title>New Blog: GrasslandsChurch.com/blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone.  You may have noticed this blog has not been updated in what seems like forever.  As we have moved towards launch of course things have gotten a lot busier.  We have also started up a blog for the church itself.  It can be found at www.grasslandschurch.com/blog.  That blog gets updated with some regularity. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plantingonfaith.com/2011/07/new-blog-grasslandschurch-comblog/</link>
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		<title>Core Group Forming!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God has been at work!  I just wanted to get this quick blog up to let you all know that God has been at work in Medicine Hat!  If you have been getting our newsletters, you know we have been holding information sessions and they have gone well.  More than well in fact, but we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plantingonfaith.com/2011/04/core-group-forming/</link>
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		<title>Southwest Focus Retreat: Fully Alive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am at the Southwest Focus Retreat for Pastors at the Oaks Conference Centre in Lake Hughes, CA.  So far it&#8217;s been a really amazing couple of days with leaders, lay and clergy.  I have been refreshed doing things I love like hiking and exploring.  We have been challenged to think about how God makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plantingonfaith.com/2011/02/southwest-focus-retreat-fully-alive/</link>
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		<title>For Your Consideration: Late Summer Outreach Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am pondering the late summer window.  We are considering having a week at the end of August set aside for pre-launch outreach.  The interesting thing about Medicine Hat (and Alberta) is public school starts the week before Labour Day, which I keep feeling is an opportunity.  Parents are stressed (but relieved) to get the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plantingonfaith.com/2010/11/for-your-consideration-late-summer-outreach-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Salvation is Communal and a Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wishing I could get back to the concept I started with a few weeks ago, but after two days of thought and energy engaging with Nathan Bryant and Bart Blair about the vision and mission of our church-to-come, now I find the thought developing further. In my first post, I talked about how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plantingonfaith.com/2010/11/salvation-is-communal-and-a-process/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Twas the Night Before Hallowe&#8217;en</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And all through the church, people debated: Harvest Fest or Trick or Treat? Jon Acuff asks us what we think of Hallowe&#8217;en, and proposes one of three responses.  I have a fourth. Hallowe&#8217;en looms like a black stain on the fall for many Christians.  It is a dark night, full of the connotations of paganism, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plantingonfaith.com/2010/10/twas-the-night-before-halloween/</link>
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		<title>Salvation is Communal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pastor Mike Landry of The Link Church out here in Medicine Hat gave me a copy of &#8220;The Tangible Kingdom&#8221;. I finished it last week and have been meaning to hash out in writing a concept that was new to me. What has become of salvation? The evangelical concept of salvation has been communicated so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plantingonfaith.com/2010/09/salvation-is-communal/</link>
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		<title>Welcome Our New Team Members: Bart and Elizabeth Blair!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One prayer request we have kept before our prayer network has been the calling of team members to join us here.  We dreamed that not only would God send us partners in ministry and in life, but that they would have skills and gifts that would complement what we bring. Ephesians 3:20 always reminds me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plantingonfaith.com/2010/09/welcome-our-new-team-members-bart-and-elizabeth-blair/</link>
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		<title>Where Have Our Blog Posts Been?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The short answer is offline. The slightly longer answer is a little more technical.  We did an update to the software that keeps the blog and it didn&#8217;t finish the update correctly.  Plus, in an effort to save money we decided to move the blog to a new server.  Now, we are taking advantage of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.plantingonfaith.com/2010/09/where-have-our-blog-posts-been/</link>
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