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	<title>College Union</title>
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	<description>A community of United Methodists in Campus Ministry</description>
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		<title>Missio Dei</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Short Term Missions Strategy:
From First Steps through Evaluation
When I led my first Short Term Mission team in 1989 no one told me how to do it – thu leaving me with no idea how to evaluate it.  I only said “Yes” because as a new Christian nothing was more obvious than the need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://collegeunion.org/2008/02/11/missio-dei/</link>
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		<title>Virtues &#038; Choices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In the last edition of virtues and choices I posted student papers from a class  I teach on the Asbury Wilmore campus titled Moral Development. One of  the early assignments in the class asks students to write a short story that  exemplifies the main character as a person of moral maturity. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://collegeunion.org/2007/09/01/virtues-choices/</link>
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		<title>Staff Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Student Leaders: Resetting our Focus

From a staff perspective, student leaders are at the heart  of a college ministry.  None of us has the financial resources to build a  full-time paid staff that can meet the demands of both the students involved in  the ministry and the students on the campus who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://collegeunion.org/2006/08/31/staff-development/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to Worship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The intersection of Worship and Campus 
-A diaBLOGue between worship leaders and pastors J.D. Walt &#38; Mark Benjamin…

Here we hope to create a dialogue (or diaBLOGue) that gets at what we have learned and are learning about worship.  We both are practitioners of worship in a campus life setting, JD at a graduate theological [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://collegeunion.org/2006/06/26/intro-to-worship-section/</link>
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		<title>Student Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the up-and-down, wonderful, crazy-making, creative, exasperating,  amazing, maddening, strategic world of student leadership  development.
Perhaps the most enduring aspect of what we do in campus  ministry, developing student leaders is more about followship than leadership  and character more than competency. Bottom line: Christian leaders are made on  the road [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://collegeunion.org/2006/02/27/student-leadership/</link>
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		<title>Church Marketing Sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We&#8217;ve got the greatest story ever told, but we don&#8217;t know how to tell it&#8221; - www.churchmarketingsucks.com
Come and listen in on my conversation with Brad Abare of Church Marketing Sucks who is passionate about helping the church get the message of the Gospel out in a way that&#8217;s authentic, loving, and without typos.  Then dive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://collegeunion.org/2008/09/05/church-marketing-sucks/</link>
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		<title>Campus Alpha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I spoke with the National Coordinator of Campus Alpha, Dave Short.  Dave started working with Campus Alpha in January, but he was in campus ministry for 20 years in Texas and Illinois before that.  To find out more about him and how Alpha can help you reach into your campus, go to their web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://collegeunion.org/2008/09/05/campus-alpha/</link>
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		<title>20 Tips For Successful Small Group Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keeping with the theme of small groups, here is another resource that Rob Matchett (Small Group Guru of Grace Fellowship in Katy, TX) shared with me - 20 Tips For Successful Small Group Leadership by Michael Zigarelli.  While it doesn&#8217;t handle all the questions a small group leader may ask, it does touch on big-picture [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://collegeunion.org/2008/09/04/20-tips-for-successful-small-group-leadership/</link>
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		<title>Resources for Small Groups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rob Matchett - Small Group Pastor for Grace Fellowship in Katy, TX - shared an on-line resource for small groups called smallgroups.com.  Rob oversees the 150+ small groups at Grace and has begun using this resource to train and equip his leaders.  When you click on and start poking around, you will find that it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://collegeunion.org/2008/09/03/resources-for-small-groups/</link>
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		<title>Sharing is caring.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay - you&#8217;re here at CU because you need help, inspiration, or someone to tell you that you aren&#8217;t crazy for being in campus ministry.  I&#8217;m starting my 11th year on my third campus and I know I need to hear it.  At its core, CU exists to build community and share resources.  So here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://collegeunion.org/2008/09/03/sharing-is-caring/</link>
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