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		<title>Stories of Their Lives: Telling The Story through Boarding Homes Ministries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Lorna Hutchinson
The Boarding Homes Ministry was started in Toronto by The Rev. Rodger Hunter, who had worked in mission drop-in centres and recognized God’s call to reach out to the isolated people who live ...]]></description>
		<link>http://equippingfor.ca/article/stories-of-their-lives-telling-the-story-through-boarding-homes-ministries/</link>
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		<title>What happens to continuing education funds when a minister leaves a congregation?</title>
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Don Muir, Associate Secretary, General Assembly Office


William Butler Yeats, the Nobel Prize winning Irish dramatist, author and poet, once stated, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
All of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://equippingfor.ca/article/what-happens-to-continuing-education-funds-when-a-minister-leaves-a-congregation/</link>
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		<title>As Told by Children: Using Video to Tell The Story in Worship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Scott McAndless
Several years ago, Knox Presbyterian Church in Leamington, Ontario, considered how to enhance the way we present and receive the message of the Bible in our Sunday morning worship experience. We decided to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://equippingfor.ca/article/as-told-by-children-using-video-to-tell-the-story-in-worship/</link>
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		<title>Session Starter #25: The conduct and content of worship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don Muir, Associate Secretary, General Assembly Office
Prayer: Book of Common Worship
Taken from Opening Prayers (p. 48)
Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hidden: cleanse the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://equippingfor.ca/article/session-starter-25-the-conduct-and-content-of-worship/</link>
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		<title>The Annual Report: Telling the Financial Story of the Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Richard Anderson
Another year is quickly drawing to a close. As we look forward to a new year, there are a few financial things to consider. It may be time to reconsider how financial affairs ...]]></description>
		<link>http://equippingfor.ca/article/the-annual-report-telling-the-financial-story-of-the-church/</link>
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		<title>Re-Minded of the Story: Preaching and Teaching Lent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Stephen Farris
Not long ago, by historical standards, Presbyterians did not keep Lent; it was a “Papist” observance. For the most part, we no longer think that way, but before we dismiss our ancestors’ opinions ...]]></description>
		<link>http://equippingfor.ca/article/re-minded-of-the-story-preaching-and-teaching-lent/</link>
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		<title>What’s new from the 2011 General Assembly?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Don Muir
The 2011 General Assembly met at the University of Western Ontario in London from June 5 to 10. The Rev. Dr. Rick Horst, minister at St. Andrew’s in Barrie, Ontario, graciously moderated the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://equippingfor.ca/article/what%e2%80%99s-new-from-the-2011-general-assembly/</link>
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		<title>The Story Reaches Out: Drama as Witness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Dale McMillan
For more than 25 years, my husband, Reg, and I, along with the adults, youth and children we have been fortunate to minister with, have been telling The Story through drama. We do ...]]></description>
		<link>http://equippingfor.ca/article/the-story-reaches-out-drama-as-witness/</link>
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		<title>Telling the Story in the Annual Meeting: Worshipful Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Heather Vais
The annual meeting is coming up. Your board of managers (or your session finance committee) is madly scrambling to pull the financial records together for presentation. Reports are being written. The “big day” ...]]></description>
		<link>http://equippingfor.ca/article/telling-the-story-in-the-annual-meeting-worshipful-work/</link>
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		<title>The Annual Meeting: Considering a Consent Agenda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Don Muir
What is a consent agenda?
A consent agenda is a way of adopting, all at once, a number of reports or recommendations that are anticipated to be readily and unanimously approved. The purpose of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://equippingfor.ca/article/the-annual-meeting-considering-a-consent-agenda/</link>
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