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Blog Entries - 2012

Jean Ohlerking
Jean Ohlerking

Impacting a Child’s Life

November 30, 2012

By Jean Ohlerking Follow, we will follow Thee our Lord… Words that were sung at our wedding continue to ring in my ears even now, two years since my husband of nearly 52 years went to be with the Lord. 

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John Lambert
John Lambert

The Heart of a Missionary: The Heart of Every Believer

October 31, 2012

By John Lambert The Metric of the Heart When we talk about church growth, as Westerners we tend to many times think in terms of metrics; nickels and noses.  How many people are coming to our services?  How much

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Josh Joines
Josh Joines

Three Components to a Thriving Student Ministry

September 28, 2012

By Josh Joines In the fall of 2000, with my new bride of one month and a little U-Haul trailer, Kara and I struck out to a dusty little West Texas town with a dream in our heart to change a generation for

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Luke Walters
Luke Walters

Green Pastures

August 21, 2012

By Luke Walters Psalm 23:1-2 "(1) The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. (2) He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters." Have you ever heard the cliché "the grass is

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Raul Rivera
Raul Rivera

Does Your Ministry Keep Minutes?

July 2, 2012

By Raul Rivera I recently had a conversation with an administrator who had just joined the staff of his church.  He mentioned that in the three months he had been there, he had found no trace of any board meeting

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Jennifer Maggio
Jennifer Maggio

The Life of a Single Mom

May 31, 2012

By Jennifer Maggio She walks in the church and cautiously looks around with her four-year-old daughter in tow. She hesitantly makes her way to the back of the church and sits quietly, thumbing through her Bible,

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