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		<title>the things &#8216;church kids&#8217; say</title>
		<link>http://thenclablog.com/2009/01/22/the-things-church-kids-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Patrick</dc:creator>
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While riding home from a family outing a few days ago, Angie and I were participating in some playful banter back and forth with our 5-year old, Logan. We always do this thing where we ask him who he loves the most? (All in fun, of course) Does he love Dad the most or does he love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenclablog.com&blog=1797789&post=187&subd=ncla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earlybird Deadline!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children&#8217;s Ministry Pastors and Volunteers,
Hurry &#8211; the deadline to save more money by registering early for the FOCUS conference is Friday, January 9th! You will not want to miss this year&#8217;s conference so get your registration in asap. See you there!
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		<title>Just added to FOCUS!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spread the news to other staff in your church! New at FOCUS this year &#8211; Middle School Ministry Track. Your Youth Pastor or some of your youth ministry leaders may want to take advantage of this and other related workshops at the conference. Many of the workshops and topics offered at FOCUS are not soley [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenclablog.com&blog=1797789&post=180&subd=ncla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Share your Children&#8217;s Ministry Christmas program success!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fellow Children’s Ministry leaders,
Share your praise reports from your Children’s Christmas program!
I’ll get the ball rolling by sharing about ours this past Sunday morning. Our children’s ministry presented “It all happened in the country”. This is an older program, but our children’s drama directors did a masterful job of revising it , adding video to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenclablog.com&blog=1797789&post=175&subd=ncla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reggie Joiner at FOCUS 09</title>
		<link>http://thenclablog.com/2008/10/21/reggie-joiner-at-focus-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil h</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NCLA leadership team is extremely excited to announce that Reggie Joiner will join us for FOCUS 09.
Reggie is the founder of The reThink Group, a non-profit organization encouraging churches and families to think strategically to impact this generation of students from birth through high school. The reThink Group urges ministries to be both relevant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenclablog.com&blog=1797789&post=168&subd=ncla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Commission Kids</title>
		<link>http://thenclablog.com/2008/10/20/great-commission-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tony l</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been wondering lately if we are doing a good job at embracing the potential of the kids in our churches.  It seems to me that many churches have relegated children&#8217;s ministry to serve as a babysitting service for the parents and adults, to keep the kids occupied while the adults enjoy God and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenclablog.com&blog=1797789&post=165&subd=ncla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KIDFEST 09 FINALIZED</title>
		<link>http://thenclablog.com/2008/10/20/kidfest-09-finalized/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tony l</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kidfest &#8216;09 events have been finalized. Our program this year is exciting and will add some new stuff we haven&#8217;t done before!  The brochures are being printed and prepared for mailing!  On Friday night at each Kidfest event: Carolina (April 24-26), Midwest (May 1-3), and Smoky Mountain (May 15-17), there will be a kids [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenclablog.com&blog=1797789&post=160&subd=ncla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glubble &#8211; An Internet Family Filter</title>
		<link>http://thenclablog.com/2008/09/23/glubble-an-internet-family-filter/</link>
		<comments>http://thenclablog.com/2008/09/23/glubble-an-internet-family-filter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil h</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a 7 and 4 year old at home, and they&#8217;re both becoming more computer savvy everyday. For this reason, my wife and I started looking for an internet filtering device recently, and last week we stumbled upon Glubble.
Glubble is a Firefox add-on that allows you to customize the internet experience for each person [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenclablog.com&blog=1797789&post=158&subd=ncla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parent Link</title>
		<link>http://thenclablog.com/2008/09/15/parent-link/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil b</dc:creator>
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How are parents involved in your children&#8217;s ministry? And I mean all of your parents&#8230;any parent that has a kid enrolled in your ministry program.
We are endeavoring to make our children&#8217;s ministry a true &#8220;partnership&#8221; with the families and a good portion of our parents do not have an active roll in this ministry.
Should parents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenclablog.com&blog=1797789&post=154&subd=ncla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phil Vischer at FOCUS 09</title>
		<link>http://thenclablog.com/2008/08/28/phil-vischer-at-focus-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil h</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NCLA leadership team is gearing up for a great FOCUS 09 conference and in the midst of that hard work we&#8217;re excited to announce that Phil Vischer will be with us.
Phil really needs no introduction, but in case you&#8217;ve been doing children&#8217;s ministry under a rock for the past decade, Phil is the cofounder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenclablog.com&blog=1797789&post=148&subd=ncla&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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