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	<description>Mission &#38; ministry in Southeastern Pennsylvania</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Rejoicing Spirits grows in Souderton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TheReporterOnline.com
Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Souderton, with the lay leadership of Jay Grimes of Franconia, has started a service that allows developmentally delayed members of the community to worship in a ministry that is tailored just for them.
“We’re all part of the same community is what it comes down to,” Grimes said.
Grimes is the ministry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little church with big heart celebrates 100th</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TheReporterOnline.com
A small Ambler Borough church with a rich history will kick off its centennial with a community celebration Sunday.
St. John’s Lutheran Church of Ambler was chartered April 26, 1908. It was founded by a young pastor from Upper Dublin Lutheran Church, Samuel F. Tholan, who began leading services in the heart of Ambler in 1907.
For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon pact models Methodist, Lutheran communion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Fisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When a United Methodist congregation and a Lutheran congregation in McMinnville, Ore., formed a cooperative ministry two years ago, the decision emerged out of a desire to share a common mission, not out of desperation.
Neither the McMinnville United Methodist Church nor Trinity Lutheran Church, part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, was in danger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Senate ID bill would harm the needy</title>
		<link>http://sepasynod.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/state-senate-id-bill-would-harm-the-needy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Fisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Making its way through the Senate since last spring, S.B. 9 requires the submission of government-issued ID as a condition of receiving a wide variety of public benefits.
In a state where 1.4 million people live in poverty, there is a $4.6 billion shortfall in adequate funding for K-12 public education and nearly 800,000 people dont [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ELCA ad campaign shows results</title>
		<link>http://sepasynod.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/elca-ad-campaign-shows-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Fisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Denver motorists saw billboards in September 2007 that displayed tools in the shape of a cross and conveyed a fact &#8212; &#8220;8,400 homes repaired after Hurricane Katrina&#8221; &#8212; and a message &#8212; &#8220;God&#8217;s Work. Our Hands.&#8221; The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Rocky Mountain Synod took the lead in a pilot advertising campaign about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facing South: Religious groups join opposition to nuclear &#8220;Bombplex&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sepasynod.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/facing-south-religious-groups-join-opposition-to-nuclear-bombplex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Fisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Facing South: Religious groups join opposition to nuclear &#8220;Bombplex&#8221;
Sixteen national religious organizations filed formal comments [PDF] yesterday opposing the Bush administration&#8217;s $150 billion plan to update the nation&#8217;s nuclear arsenal, calling the proposed Nuclear Weapons Complex Transformation project wasteful, unneeded and dangerous. The plan, dubbed &#8220;Bombplex&#8221; by its foes, would streamline the nation&#8217;s current atomic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wfn.org &#124; Lutheran Disaster Response Nearly Completes $27.7 Million Expenditure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Fisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[wfn.org &#124; Lutheran Disaster Response Nearly Completes $27.7 Million Expenditure
Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) has nearly completed the expenditure of more than $27.7 million collected to support recovery work along the U.S. Gulf Coast in response to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and other hurricanes from the 2005 season.  And in an effort to continue rebuilding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Lazareth, Former ELCA Synod Bishop, Author, Professor, Dies</title>
		<link>http://sepasynod.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/william-lazareth-former-elca-synod-bishop-author-professor-dies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Fisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[wfn.org &#124; William Lazareth, Former ELCA Synod Bishop, Author, Professor, Dies
The Rev. William H. Lazareth, former bishop of the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) died of cancer Feb. 23 in Bar Harbor, Maine. Lazareth, 79, had a distinguished career as a college and seminary professor, author and leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colleges offer programs in church finance &#124; Philadelphia Inquirer &#124; 02/18/2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Fisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Colleges offer programs in church finance &#124; Philadelphia Inquirer &#124; 02/18/2008
Many U.S. churches have been victims of embezzlement over the years, reflecting not just moral weakness on the part of the wrongdoers, but lax financial controls. Often, church budgets are overseen by volunteers or employees with little guidance or professional training.
Now, some colleges are hoping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Sides of the Street</title>
		<link>http://sepasynod.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/two-sides-of-the-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Fisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Sides of the Street &#124; Philadelphia Inquirer &#124; 02/24/2008
Center City&#8217;s street population - 85 percent of whom are mentally ill or addicted or both - is the highest in 10 years, according to the city&#8217;s homeless outreach center. But that&#8217;s only the most visible part of the homeless situation. Shelters, which cater more to [...]]]></description>
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