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		<title>Youth Ministry 3.Oh!</title>
		<link>http://headsparks.com/2008/12/29/youth-ministry-3oh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel so</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me say this up front: Youth Ministry 3.0, by Mark (Marko) Oestreicher, is not only a manifesto for youth ministry but for the church.  And not for only the church as a building or site for programs and events, but for our essential, ecclesial understanding of what it means to be the people of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=headsparks.com&amp;blog=897339&amp;post=1055&amp;subd=headsparks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Know I Left My Thinking Cap Around Here Somewhere</title>
		<link>http://headsparks.com/2008/07/03/i-know-i-left-my-thinking-cap-around-here-somewhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel so</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the gracious invitation of Jim Hancock and Marko, this week I was able to sit in on (and, hopefully, contribute something meaningful to) a small gathering to put some framework to the Big Room gatherings at DCLA 09. It was a joy and privilege to sit with such a talented, experienced group of youth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=headsparks.com&amp;blog=897339&amp;post=358&amp;subd=headsparks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming Communional</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel so</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marko&#8217;s new book about the future of youth ministry, Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We&#8217;ve Been, Where We Are &#38; Where We Need to Go will be released soon. He outlined some of the broad concepts during the closing message at last year&#8217;s National Youth Workers Convention and graciously included several preview chapters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=headsparks.com&amp;blog=897339&amp;post=336&amp;subd=headsparks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Score</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 19:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel so</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six students at a local high school that several of our youth group students attend were suspended last week for hacking into the school&#8217;s computer system to change their grades and access upcoming test material. This probably would have been a newsworthy blurb on its own and a conversation about cheating and technological security, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=headsparks.com&amp;blog=897339&amp;post=310&amp;subd=headsparks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Ministry Happens At Home</title>
		<link>http://headsparks.com/2008/04/03/youth-ministry-happens-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel so</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Becoming a dad is one of the greatest things that has ever happened to me. It has forced me to come to terms with my (massive) shortcomings, humbles me every single day and has brought me greater joy than I could have imagined. It seems like an eternity ago, but we used to catch our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=headsparks.com&amp;blog=897339&amp;post=294&amp;subd=headsparks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just In Case&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://headsparks.com/2008/03/07/just-in-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel so</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m heading out on a weekend retreat with our youth group. Please pray for me. Here&#8217;s a little design I worked up for our retreat: * * * * * If I&#8217;m not back by Sunday evening, please send a team into the woods looking for me.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=headsparks.com&amp;blog=897339&amp;post=279&amp;subd=headsparks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Safe, But Still Under The Firestorm</title>
		<link>http://headsparks.com/2007/10/24/safe-but-still-under-the-firestorm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel so</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, everyone, for your prayers.  I think they might be the one thing sustaining us right now.   I am writing from Orange County. My wife is an amazing trooper &#8212; she drove most of the four-hour drive through bumper-to-bumper traffic up from San Diego, while I spent most of the trip vomiting (we think it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=headsparks.com&amp;blog=897339&amp;post=201&amp;subd=headsparks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NYWC 4: The Electronic Gospel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel so</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being in town meant that I would not be missing our Sunday at church. While there is a definite downside to not getting away for the weekend, I could sense how God was using the words spoken through Francis Chan and Doug Fields to enlarge my heart further for my students. Maybe it was nothing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=headsparks.com&amp;blog=897339&amp;post=199&amp;subd=headsparks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NYWC 3: Mysterious Ways</title>
		<link>http://headsparks.com/2007/10/21/nywc-3-mysterious-ways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel so</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am worn out after day three of NYWC but, finally, in a good way. I always have difficulty articulating my inner life but I have been in a particular state of disorder in the weeks leading up to NYWC. In the midst of busyness and weariness, I have not been listening well for God&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=headsparks.com&amp;blog=897339&amp;post=198&amp;subd=headsparks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NYWC 2A: The Story</title>
		<link>http://headsparks.com/2007/10/20/nywc-2a-the-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel so</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I missed the second half of today&#8217;s NYWC because our family went up to Disney for their annual Mickey&#8217;s Halloween Treat night. If you have the chance to go, it is lots of fun &#8212; games, crafts, dancing and, of course, tons of candy. In any case, that&#8217;s why these are my reflections from Day [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=headsparks.com&amp;blog=897339&amp;post=197&amp;subd=headsparks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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