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		<title>“That was the best ride ever!”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 18:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ward Tanneberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Word from Ward &#160; Last Tuesday, I arrived at SeaTac for an early morning flight to Burbank to shoot some promotional video for the upcoming CASA Network 7 great days of Influencing the Generations conferences, scheduled this summer and fall across America. Once the work was done, I would take a flight home that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s My Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ward Tanneberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, did my value just go up or down? Someone’s first response to that question might be to shake his or her head and say, “Can’t tell. Haven’t checked the stock market.” Or someone more cynical, “If it’s anything past 65, then forget about the market. There’s no question. Your value just went down!” In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What part of Being Church are we Missing? In an article entitled, “How Pastors Planned to Improve Their Churches,” David Kinnaman of the Barna Group reported on the responses of 614 senior pastors of churches throughout the United States concerning questions having to do with revamping and retooling the organization, funding and staffing, church size [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Influencing the Generations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ward Tanneberg</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Ward Tanneberg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mission & Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Growth]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://gocasa.org/2011/12/the-casa-network-takes-a-step-of-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ward Tanneberg</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>CASA Network</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://gocasa.org/2011/08/lets-start-the-conversation/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://gocasa.org/2011/08/time-well-spent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CASA Network</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>
		<dc:creator>CASA Network</dc:creator>
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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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