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		<title>August Happenings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am amazed that summer is almost over!  This year wasn&#8217;t quite as hot as last year in Austin, but I&#8217;m afraid my friends in Ukraine have been melting in the heat wave over there. We are thankful to have a full schedule for August.  We are always open for any opportunity to talk about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparksministry.org/blog/?p=323</link>
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		<title>What a summer!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since we sent out an update or posted on this blog.  Sorry for such a long time of silence!  Our real life just went a little crazy as soon as we returned from our Living in Grace conference in June. As the last entry explains, we had an offer on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparksministry.org/blog/?p=316</link>
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		<title>Home Sold!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we returned from our week at Living in Grace, we were encouraged both personally and in our ministry and support raising preparation.  We were quickly brought down by the news that not one person had looked at our house during the week we were gone.  We struggled to apply the lessons of the previous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparksministry.org/blog/?p=304</link>
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		<title>Living In Grace &#8211; Follow Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just returned from a week in North Carolina at Ridgehaven camp.  It was a lovely break from the Texas weather that is hovering around 100 degrees these days!  We were there for one of the pre-field training requirements of Mission to the World (MTW).  All missionaries are required to go through this training before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparksministry.org/blog/?p=302</link>
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		<title>Living in Grace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We leave in a few hours for Living in Grace, a conference that our Mission requires us to attend as part of our training. (They also do an abbreviated version for churches that Steve and I attended in Austin about a year ago.) This time, it&#8217;s a week long and it&#8217;s in the North Carolina [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparksministry.org/blog/?p=300</link>
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		<title>To Dallas We Go!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for praying for Steve&#8217;s sermon last weekend!  If you want to hear it, you can hear the podcast here. This weekend we will be at Bethel Presbyterian Church in Dallas.  We will be presenting during their Sunday School hour and then having a few minutes in the worship service.  Come say hi if you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparksministry.org/blog/?p=296</link>
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		<title>Preaching on Sunday!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve will be preaching at our church in Austin, CrossPointe, on Sunday (May 23).  His topic will be &#8220;Self &#8211; No Service&#8221;.  He&#8217;ll be talking about some of the things God has been teaching him so far through the process of getting to Ukraine as well as giving our congregation more details about exactly what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparksministry.org/blog/?p=292</link>
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		<title>Just in Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was working on my business major at Covenant College, I learned about &#8220;just in time&#8221; inventory.  I think that most companies now use this approach because it means that (ideally) you don&#8217;t have to carry a bunch of inventory on hand.  You get your supplies as you need to use them in production, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparksministry.org/blog/?p=288</link>
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		<title>Visit to Southside Community Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend we spent time visiting with the South Texas Presbytery at the Southside Community Church in Corpus Christi. If you are ever in Corpus we would highly encourage you to visit this church and if you live in Corpus or close and are looking for a church home, the ministry here is Gospel centered, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparksministry.org/blog/?p=282</link>
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		<title>Sovereignty Strikes Again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I started to get a women&#8217;s ministry going at Salomensky Presbyterian Reformed Church (SPRC).  I distributed and collected questionnaires to see what they wanted and structured a few different types of meetings for the women in the church.  I also started to meet weekly with the sister of one of our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sparksministry.org/blog/?p=274</link>
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