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		<title>Indiana Church Adds Two Services, After-School Ministry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Matthew 5, Jesus says we are the light of the world and that a city on a hill cannot be hidden.  We are to let our light shine before men so that they may see our good deeds and praise our Father in heaven.  The people of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Huntington, Indiana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>160 Year-Old Martini Lutheran Church Seeing Explosive Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a special year in the life of Martini Lutheran Church in New Haven, Indiana as the Church celebrates its 160th anniversary.  More importantly, Martini is experiencing growth as it continues to reach out to its community.  New Haven is a small city of about 15,000 people in northeast Indiana, adjacent to the city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rural Nebraska Pastor Sees Transformation, Says of TCN, &#8220;Do it!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pastor Kenton Birtell has served Mt.Calvary Lutheran Church in Holdrege, Nebraska for 12 years now.  The church averages about 230 people in worship each Sunday.  Holdrege is a small community of about 5,400 people located in south central Nebraska.  Look around there and you’ll see huge farms of mostly irrigated corn and soybeans.  The town [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church Celebrates 150 years, Pastor Joins TCN Learning Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year is a very special year for St. Peter Lutheran Church in Humboldt, KS.  Humboldt is a town of about 1,800 people located in southeast Kansas.  The church there will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2013 and has much for which to thank and praise God.  The congregation average 120 people in Sunday worship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TCN Calls Rev. Rick Twenhafel as Director of Rural/Small Town Ministry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rev. Rick Twenhafel of Nortonville, KS has recently been called by TCN to serve as our Director of Rural/Small Town (RST) Ministry.  In his new position, Pastor Twenhafel will be responsible for developing new and creative resources, processes, and systems for helping RST congregations engage their communities with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Let’s look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TCN and Central American Lutheran Mission Society Partnership</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TCN is working with the Central American Lutheran Mission Society (CALMS) to provide TCN congregations with opportunities in Guatemala to do hands-on mission work in a cross-cultural context that involves proclaiming and demonstrating the Gospel to grow God’s Kingdom abroad and to also apply those learning experiences to help expand the Kingdom throughout your local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montgomery Church Opens Eyes to the Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As recently as 2010, St. Paul Lutheran Church, which has been in Montgomery, Alabama for about 48 years, helped plant a new church.  In doing so, it sent out several dozen members from St. Paul who served as the core group that was actively engaged in getting this new church started.  The flip side of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kansas Church Changes Mindset to Share the Gospel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Olathe, Kansas is a suburban area near Kansas City that has experienced significant population growth and continues to be a community with a resourceful economic presence. Redeemer Lutheran Church has been part of the Olathe community for 50 years now.  Its congregation is reflective of the aerospace industry and other employers there in that many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TCN and Luther&#8217;s Theology of the Cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TCN &#38; Luther’s Theology of the Cross by Terry Tieman I recently had the opportunity to read the Doctoral Dissertation of Rev. Dr. John David Roth, entitled “Church and Clergy Revitalization Seen Through the Lens of Luther’s Theology of the Cross.”*  Dr. Roth is the Senior Pastor of First Lutheran Church in Gainesville, Florida and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Savior- A Revitalized Church, Pastor and Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smassey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty years ago, Beautiful Savior held its first worship service in what was then a new facility in south Memphis,Tennessee.  In February 2004, the congregation dedicated its current building after having moved to the fast-growing area of Olive Branch in North Mississippi.  However, when Pastor Tim “Vic” Maslowski came to Beautiful Savior in September 2007, [...]]]></description>
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