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		<title>Take Your Charity And Shove It</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2009/09/12/take-your-charity-and-shove-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most unique things I have learned @ Roosevelt Community Church is an asset-based approach to community development. Now I&#8217;m still wrapping my head around this but it&#8217;s all the difference in the world between charity and empowerment. Here are some blurbs that I&#8217;m still working through: As an alternative approach, the appeal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Theology</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2009/06/09/open-source-theology-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m re-publishing this as a convo about Twitter is jump-started by Time mag&#8217;s recent cover story on the 140 character cultural phenom. A friend dialogues about it (Twitter) here too. But specifically I am interested in Twitter&#8217;s implications for how we do church. I don&#8217;t mean so much using Twitter IN church, but the implications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Should We Respond To Schoolyard Racism?</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2009/05/07/how-should-we-respond-to-schoolyard-racism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 21:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do any of you relate to the experience? The names, taunts, bullying based on race (and recently, sexual orientation)&#8230; regardless of where you stand on the (political) issue I can say as an Asian-American, it sucks when you get the egregious slur, slanty-eyes, kowtow bow or whatever. It hurts. It belittles. So the gratification I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subverting the Loneliness of Church Planting</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2009/01/29/subverting-the-loneliness-of-church-planting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discovering how healing it is to be @ Regent &#8211; to talk about life, vocation, spirituality with other ministers-to-be. There is healing happening here in the context of community. But as I look back in my life I have not always had such support; where the resources of community have been made available to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Ekklesia</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2008/12/07/defining-ekklesia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which is a fancy-schmancy way of saying "What is church?"]]></description>
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		<title>Quantifiable Results in Church &amp; Missionary Endeavor</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2008/12/04/quantifiable-results-in-church-missionary-endeavor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further ponderings on the &#8220;success&#8221; question. Some may disagree but I think there is a legit need to define quantifiable progress in church / missionary endeavor. Sure numbers are not everything but I think it&#8217;s necessary to know what is the telos of our work. A paradigm of mission is needed. Do we do good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is &quot;Success&quot; in Church Planting?</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2008/12/03/what-is-success-in-church-planting/</link>
		<comments>http://waynepark.com/2008/12/03/what-is-success-in-church-planting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man it feels good to be back in Canada. The above title was the convo @ the church planters gathering in Bellingham (Hothouse). Some of the attention was turned on me as those gathered knew about my recent heartache of closing down a church. And so I was queried about how I felt and if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Kind of Christian Are You?</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2007/04/04/what-kind-of-christian-are-you/</link>
		<comments>http://waynepark.com/2007/04/04/what-kind-of-christian-are-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, I want to say &#8220;hats off&#8221; to Anderson Cooper, and the fine job of reporting that he does. There&#8217;s a great discussion he&#8217;s starting (based on a CNN series this week titled, What is a Christian?). And this is from his blog: &#8220;In the hour, we&#8217;ll approach American Christianity through a variety of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Visit With Us&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2007/03/23/come-visit-with-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A second &#8220;Exploratory Group&#8221; meeting for our new church plant in Bellingham is scheduled for Sunday, April 1st at 5pm. A light dinner will be served and hosted at our place. Friends and family are welcome to attend; childcare will also be provided. Email us at wayneandash AT gmail.com for more info. Additional meetings are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our First Chance To Dream&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2007/03/19/our-first-chance-to-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would say our first &#8220;exploratory&#8221; meeting went great. A good turnout of people from varied backgrounds, ethnicities and generations. It was a pleasure to see this mix. While I wouldn&#8217;t say all cylinders are steaming ahead yet, there is a genuine sense that this has potential to pick up momentum and become something exciting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Place Like It&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://waynepark.com/2007/02/26/no-place-like-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After living here for 4+ years (and commuting here for an additional 3) I have found Bellingham to be an extraordinary and beautiful place. It is a growing city-town of 200,000+ and yet it retains that small town feel. It is a growing target for marketers and businesses, and Inc. magazine recently placed Bellingham in [...]]]></description>
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