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		<title>The Latest</title>
		<link>http://slingshotministries.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/the-latest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 03:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erich Wimberly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re curious as to what I&#8217;ve been doing lately, I&#8217;ve been working as a substitute at Carver Early Childhood Center.  It&#8217;s a preK center for Bryan ISD.  I will be there through the rest of the school year.  I really enjoy working with young children in an educational setting.  Who would have guessed?  Certainly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slingshotministries.wordpress.com&blog=3237290&post=49&subd=slingshotministries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gracie&#8217;s Baptism</title>
		<link>http://slingshotministries.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/gracies-baptism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 04:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erich Wimberly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had the honor of baptizing Gracie Duke, a member of our youth group.  A few weeks ago she expressed a desire to get baptized.  She is 14 years old and has a long-standing walk with the Lord, but she is at a point in her life where she wants so much more.  It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slingshotministries.wordpress.com&blog=3237290&post=48&subd=slingshotministries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Campout Was a Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erich Wimberly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took the youth boys on a campout last weekend.  We had an a great time.  We had several adults along with us, and we had incredible weather as well.  We camped at Still Creek Ranch, a boys home just outside of town.  Three boys from this home actually attend our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slingshotministries.wordpress.com&blog=3237290&post=45&subd=slingshotministries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Group&#8217;s thoughts on Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erich Wimberly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago at youth group we took fifteen minutes to journal thoughts and questions about prayer.  I have compiled a list of quotes that came directly from the youth at LifeChurch.  Check out the honesty!

 I pray in my mind; it kind of makes it feel like I’m hand delivering a message [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slingshotministries.wordpress.com&blog=3237290&post=44&subd=slingshotministries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Male Initiation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erich Wimberly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am devouring research about male initiation.  I truly believe that this accounts for so much of the social disarray among our young people.  And I am enamored with the possibility of rallying the men of our church to first of all submit to God our Father&#8217;s initiation process for our own lives, and secondly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slingshotministries.wordpress.com&blog=3237290&post=41&subd=slingshotministries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Back to Basics Through Challenge and Adventure&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erich Wimberly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just stumbled across this article in my computer&#8217;s archives.  I had acquired this when I was working on my Masters in Curriculum and Instruction (which I never completed).  I must say that most of the stuff I researched from the world of education was junk, but I found some really good research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slingshotministries.wordpress.com&blog=3237290&post=39&subd=slingshotministries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The local church and sacrifice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erich Wimberly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Church is a dangerous place often enough.  I don&#8217;t know any honest person who hasn&#8217;t been burned by the church at one time or another.  And I certainly know a lot of people who would never set foot back into a church for that very reason.
Yet I find there is a sinister irony [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slingshotministries.wordpress.com&blog=3237290&post=36&subd=slingshotministries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Moyers Interview with Mayor Cory Booker of Newark</title>
		<link>http://slingshotministries.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/bill-moyers-interview-with-mayor-cory-booker-of-newark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erich Wimberly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just saw a great interview with Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, NJ.  INSPIRATIONAL!  I think I might go back and watch this one several times.  He spoke like a man who truly understands the responsibility of freedom.  No blame-shifting and empty promises here.  At one point he said,
&#8220;We have the statue of Liberty, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slingshotministries.wordpress.com&blog=3237290&post=29&subd=slingshotministries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis Chaplaincy Training</title>
		<link>http://slingshotministries.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/crisis-chaplaincy-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erich Wimberly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently in Houston going through a Chaplaincy Crisis Certification training class.  I first heard about this concept about two years ago.  Rick Joyner wrote about the value of this training in retrospect of Hurricane Katrina.  He and his staff had gone through this training, and they had also taken a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slingshotministries.wordpress.com&blog=3237290&post=28&subd=slingshotministries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Boys Campout</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erich Wimberly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Event]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer Requests]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am planning a campout for the youth boys on April 19th.  Please pray that I would find several men willing to help make this event be all that it can be.  I am only at the beginning of this ministry, and I know I must take baby steps.  This is why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slingshotministries.wordpress.com&blog=3237290&post=23&subd=slingshotministries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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