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		<title>Influencing the Generations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Your Total Memory Span? &#160; In the book, The Fourth Turning, an insightful generational study by William Strauss and Neil Howe, the authors suggest that we each communicate through our lives across a vast reach of time. So, I followed their suggestion to recall the oldest person who had influenced my life. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That All May Be One</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Three Days It Felt Like John 17:21 ..that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. Jn 17:21 &#160; There is a man who profoundly affected the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The CASA Network Takes a Step of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forging Ahead Beginning in 2012, The CASA Network is making an historic move: transitioning from its long held member-support approach to funding its outreach, to one that is &#8220;faith-based,&#8221; supported by individuals, churches and parachurch groups that possess a vision and passion for older adult and intergenerational ministries. The board reached a decision for this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Influence the Generations!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boomers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Best Vines The ‘new elders’ arrived when much of your church was looking the other way. Together with their older ‘builder’ parents, boomers usually represent at least 25% of urban and suburban centers in Canada and America, 45% of the average evangelical congregation and 51% of mainline congregations. These ‘new elders’ of Christendom are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Start the Conversation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a pastor, I know that many Christ followers experience more guilt than success when it comes to fulfilling Jesus’ Great Commission in Matthew 28:19. Especially the part about, “Go and make disciples.” It was not a request, not an optional volunteer opportunity to somehow work into our busyness. It was a command. Something Jesus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Well Spent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristen.daleymosier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Footprints in the Mud I grew up as a young lad on a farm in eastern Washington State—high desert for those of you who have never visited this northwest region of America. We were “dry land farmers,” more than a few of whom possessed sturdy Danish heritage. Grain crops varied in bushels per acre depending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words of Wisdom for Senior Pastors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[INVEST IN YOUR 50+ MINISTRY LEADERS! Here&#8217;s an encouragement to Senior Pastors everywhere. Invest in your 40/50 ministry pastors and lay leaders! Often overlooked and under appreciated, they set the bar for the 40 percent (or more) of your congregation who are 50+ in age. You’ve given them the task of motivating, encouraging, teaching and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Part of a Dollar Has No Value?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 20:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Laslett, 20th century English historian (1915-2001), was an early proponent in British and American society of what I believe must happen in 21st century church culture. In his book, A Fresh Map of Life, published in 1991, he points to the need for a new outlook and a new language with which to view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Elders Are Us!</title>
		<link>http://gocasa.org/2011/05/the-new-elders-are-us-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 18:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ward.tanneberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s so-called ‘Second-Half’ Christian arrived when much of the Church was looking the other way. The GenXers are next.]]></description>
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		<title>They Didn&#8217;t See What They Expected</title>
		<link>http://gocasa.org/2011/03/they-didnt-see-what-they-expected/</link>
		<comments>http://gocasa.org/2011/03/they-didnt-see-what-they-expected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ward.tanneberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking about the mystery of Easter ... and about what to do when we don't see what we expected.]]></description>
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