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		<title>Miles Sings about Thankfulness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for Thanksgiving, tonight Miles and his Kindergarten class from Santa Rosa Academy sang a little song about Thankfulness at our local Barnes &#38; Noble.

I am Thankful for&#8230; from alex mclean on Vimeo.
By the way, this is what Macy looked like when we got there - she woke up just in time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Bottleneck</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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Sorry about not posting much lately. It&#8217;s not from a lack of thoughts, happening, and ideas. It&#8217;s just that life has bottlenecked my ability to blog. That picture is pretty much how I&#8217;m feeling right now - there&#8217;s a lot happening and a lot to blog about, but my capacity is low right now&#8230; Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Broe on Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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Up at a staff retreat/advance. Our executive assistant, Jane Broe is sharing on Leadership. Here&#8217;s some of her points:
Qualities of a leader (an influencer of others)

Integrity
Nurturer
Faith in people
Listens
Understands
Enlarges
Navigates
Connects
Empowers
Reproduces

Qualities of a leader in ministry:

Has a growing personal faith, knows and uses their gifts
Has great communication skills, is persuasive, informative, and is a listener
Demonstrates leadership skills, track [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catching Up (2 weeks in photos)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy few weeks! I was sick for like a week and a half - I was only down for a couple days, but I felt pretty gnarly the whole time. Anyway, I missed blogging a few things and just thought I&#8217;d catch up.

Last week my dad turned 60! I know, that&#8217;s pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generosity (part 3) | Ukraine Adoption Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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Jim &#38; Melissa are a very cool couple at our church that I&#8217;ve had the privilege of getting to know over the past year or so. I wanted to include their story in this Generosity series because, well you&#8217;ll see when you read their story. I had a chance to do a little interview with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generosity (part 2) | 50,000 Shoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Continuing with talking about generosity, I&#8217;m very excited to take part in this project: 50,000 Shoes. Last week or so Anne Jackson asked us if we wanted to be a part of a &#8220;the worlds biggest blogging charity challenge&#8221; - I was in.
So here&#8217;s the deal.

Today, 300 million people look down as they walk from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Songs That Are Rockin My World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to share.
VinterNoll2 by Kent:

Kent - VinteNnoll2 from alex mclean on Vimeo.
And Cannons by Phil Whickam
 
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		<title>This is getting old…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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Just put &#8217;spiders&#8217; in the search bar over there to the right &#038; you&#8217;ll see what I mean&#8230;
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		<title>CommentLuv or Disqus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
		
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Blogmaster Los posted this last week and got me all excited about a new way to connect &#38; follow each other around the blog world via Disqus. Great idea - so I installed it and quickly noticed a couple things:

It killed my CommentLuv plugin, which is possibly my favorite plugin (for those who don&#8217;t know, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deacons | Servant Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, we&#8217;ve gone &#8216;old school&#8217; over this past year and launched a &#8216;Deacon Team&#8217; (note: not a Deacon Board). My role as executive pastor has blessed me with oversight of this team, and I&#8217;m NOT being sarcastic. Theses guys are amazing servants, faithful, and hard working. I&#8217;ve had two meetings so far, and we&#8217;re kind [...]]]></description>
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