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		<title>Highlights from Planting Summit 09</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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So here is a bit of a summary of some key highlights from the SUMMIT that may be helpful to you&#8230;.
1.  Tom Nebel&#8217;s  &#8220;8 Environmental Risks&#8221; to a church plant.   Tom has a tremendous grasp of the issues that can tank a plant and that are often not weighted carefully.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=310&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HEART CHECK&#8230;.soul care for church planters.</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/heart-check/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your heart matters more than anything else&#8230;.take out your concordance and check it out.      It would be a great error to throw your energy into planting a church at the expense of, or to the neglect of,  your heart for God.
Here are some key diagnostic questions relative to your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=303&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RECENT RESEARCH ON GIVING&#8230;&amp; what to do about it.</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/recent-research-on-givingwhat-to-do-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Passing the Plate is the title of a recent book released by Oxford University Press that looks closely at religious giving in North America today.   Very interesting&#8230;.and alarming.  I am tired of being alarmed&#8230;but here goes.
1.  If protestant Americans who were able to give 10% did so&#8230;.and we allow for those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=300&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$500.00 GRANTS FOR 2009!</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/50000-grants-for-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday I sat with a hand full of senior men who represent a little known group&#8230;.Christian Men Supporting Church Planting.   They have existed since the mid 1940&#8217;s for the purpose of supporting new church starts through prayer and finances.  We met to exchange a check that will be disbursed in grants to planters.
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		<title>GREAT LAKES PLANTING SUMMIT January 25-27</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/great-lakes-planting-summit-january-25-27/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you have probably picked up on the upcoming planter connection in January.   Here are some details:
Location&#8230;.Camp Geneva
Cost&#8230;.Free&#8230;yes, you read that correctly and that is no reflection on the quality!
Child care&#8230;.still working on that but likely for infants
Weather&#8230;.Cold
Atmosphere&#8230;.Warm
Presenters&#8230;.Tom Nebel and Gary Rohrmayer.    So here is the skinny on these two guys&#8230;.
Together Tom and Gary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=295&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ANDRE, HUGO AND RICH are ROCKIN.</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/andre-hugo-and-rich-are-rockin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weekend was a bumper yield in the planter movement.
Mosaic Life celebrated the 4th year together with an announced vision to add a new worship venue and develop a second congregation several miles from their East town location into downtown GR.   Andre Daley is setting the leadership teams and has anchored the location. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=291&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lewin Force Field Analysis</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/lewin-force-field-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the inhibiting and enhancing factors in your plant?
If it&#8217;s time to look at your progress in planting you may be helped by an exercise that gives insight.   The Lewin force field analysis can be helpful.   Start by listing all the factors that enhance your ministry.  Give them weight&#8230;say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=283&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEVER A DULL MOMENT&#8230;news and notes in the Great Lakes Region</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/never-a-dull-momentemerging-plants-in-the-great-lakes-region/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pot is always cooking and stirring in our shared planting efforts.   So here are some of the latest&#8230;
1.  A person has stepped forward wanting to explore a second prison congregation at Ionia.   The Department of Corrections has already welcomed the first in the state and RCA pastor Rich Reinstra [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=281&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR October 9th</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/community-development-seminar-october-9th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday October 9th Lighthouse Full Life Center in Grand Rapids will be hosting the Governors Office of Community and Faith Based Initiatives and the Department of Labor and Economic Growth for a free informational seminar on how to enhance communities through micro enterprising, housing, foreclosure prevention and more.   The event is titled PARTNERING WITH STATE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=279&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GREAT LAKES RCA PLANTING UPDATE&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/great-lakes-rca-planting-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is for all you news junkies and rca types who track planting progress&#8230;.
1.  Mission Detroit is off dead center with Paul Bradford landing this month in the metro working with Kensington Community Church.  Paul is leaning into discerning a lot of first steps&#8230;location, strategy etc&#8230;and comes with great experience and energy (try keeping up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=277&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO COACH?</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/are-you-supposed-to-coach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Church planters need to be coached.
Good coaching is not about controlling or leading.  It&#8217;s about building a trust relationship where the planter can think aloud about the plant process they are working with accountability.
Who should do this?
Bob Logan has recommended the following list of qualities that predict a good coach.
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		<title>BEER, BRATS and the BOYS:  How I got saved last Saturday.</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/beer-brats-and-the-boys-how-i-got-saved-last-saturday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a miserable truth be told&#8230;I had lost touch with some real men.
True.
While I was not eaten alive by church meetings I had given away all my free time to relationships with God&#8217;s good people.   What&#8217;s not to love about that?   Alot.
So on Saturday when my son turned 16 and we picked tix to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=273&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WESTERN SEMINARY PLANTERS GREENHOUSE 9/22</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/western-seminary-planters-greenhouse-922/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chad called me on Wednesday
Like other WTS students he is exploring being a church planter but not really sure if the systems or means are going to work for him.   Seminary was headache enough!
Monday September 22nd from noon til 1 planters and planter wannabes will gather for pizza and conversation on the 6th floor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=271&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PLANTER COACH TRAINING OCTOBER 20th 9am til 3pm</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/planter-coach-training-october-20th-9am-til-3pm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[33 plants and counting!
Since 2003 the Great Lakes Region has seen 33 new congregations planted.   Far from cookie cut, these projects are each one of a kind with unique leadership and unique challenges.
47 plants and counting!
By 2014 our hope would be that 47 more new starts will come &#8220;on line&#8221; to reach unique people groups [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=269&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ALAN HIRSCH AT GRTS WEDNESDAY SEPT 10th</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/alan-hirsch-at-grts-wednesday-sept-10th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right&#8230;Alan will be in town (GR) to speak on missional church from 10 til noon at the Grand Rapids Theological Seminiary auditorium.   The best way to access that is off of Leonard St. near the Beltline N.E.
&#8220;Who is Alan Hirsch?&#8221;   OK, clear the decks and be there!  You&#8217;re overdue.  Meanwhile check out www.theforgottenways.org
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		<title>PLANTING AT THE SPEED OF TRUST</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/planting-at-the-speed-of-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Covey has given us a great new read that has much to do with church planting.
THE SPEED OF TRUST.  Catchy title.
Trust changes everything.   When trust goes up&#8230;the cost of advancement goes down while the pace accelerates.   When trust goes down&#8230;the cost goes up while the pace slows.   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=260&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>STAFF SUPERVISION: using a M.A.P.</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/staff-supervision-using-a-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are responsible for staff supervision then heads up.
Many of us have never supervised a person in a paid position.   The early temptation is to rely on a casual connection at Starbucks now and again to catch up and talk.  Over time however, a relationship that does not respect the need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=255&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ubiquitous Altruism: Bill and the folks on South Division</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/ubiquitous-altruism-bill-and-the-folks-on-south-division/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It just keeps popping up.
So last week my Time Mag featured a story by Bill Gates on &#8220;creative capitalism&#8221;.  OK&#8230;before you choke on your mouse&#8230;hear him out.   Gates is really convinced that he can fix capitalism by linking the for profit ventures of business with concrete needs in the developing world.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=252&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Planting a Verge</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/planting-a-verge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you catch Leadership Journal you have seen the story of Dave Gibbons, planter of New Song in LA.   Dave&#8217;s world changed after spending time in Bangkok where he discovered that the Evangelical Covenant Church had about 400 churches  with 4000 attenders.  Back home in LA New Song also had about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchplanters.wordpress.com&blog=667952&post=249&subd=churchplanters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CAN WE AFFORD TO PLANT 50 MORE CHURCHES?</title>
		<link>http://churchplanters.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/can-we-afford-to-plant-50-more-churches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shared goal of the Great Lakes Region is 50 more churches by 2013  (swallow hard).   At an average outside funding cost of $200,000 per start that computes to a 10 million dollar project.   Can we do this?   A few thoughts to put this price tag in perspective.
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