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	<description>...finishing the thought</description>
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		<title>Wanted: A Few Good Men</title>
		<link>http://echolsjourney.com/2010/04/wanted-a-few-good-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Echols</dc:creator>
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I hate to say it, but many children’s ministries are like a bad country song, “where have all the good men gone”? Volunteering and working with kids has long been a female dominated ministry, particularly in nursery and preschool ministries. A shortage of men working with little children has been a cultural trend that dates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mandarin Classes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Echols</dc:creator>
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Adapted from my wife’s blog:
 
Nicole has been taking our kids to Mandarin classes since January. It has been wonderful to see Emma eager to re-learning her native language. In an effort to teach her English and prepare her for kindergarten this year it has been difficult to maintain her Mandarin language. A friend told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Lessons from Undercover Boss: Churchill Downs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Echols</dc:creator>
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Churchill Downs is an organization steeped in tradition. On the “backside” you have horse trainers, jockey’s &#038; their valet’s that are traditionalists. The “frontside” of the organization is trying to be innovative to attract more customers and give them a better experience. Let’s be honest, this isn’t very different from the church (OK, except for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lead Like a Preschooler</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Echols</dc:creator>
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The following post is an adaptation from a chapter I wrote in the book, “Turbocharged 2.0: 100 Simple Secrets to Successful Preschool Ministry”. To learn more about the book you can check it out here. 
 
In over 10 years as a Children’s Pastor, I have observed some key characteristics in preschoolers that every leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where you going &amp; how you going to get there?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Echols</dc:creator>
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Vision has been defined as “a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction that it should be”. The Bible states in Proverbs 29:18, &#8220;Where there is no vision, the people perish.&#8221; Establishing a vision for your ministry is essential to knowing where you are going and getting everyone on the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Win-Win Strategy for Multisite Children&#8217;s Ministry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Echols</dc:creator>
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I’ve been getting a lot of questions about our multisite strategy for children’s ministry at 12Stone Church. Currently we have 3 campuses, with more on the way. The most common questions I get is, “what is our model for multisite?”
Before we talk about our model, let me identify the three main ways I see churches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Imprint-sions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Echols</dc:creator>
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My three children are fascinated with animals. They love to learn interesting facts about animals. Recently we checked out a book about baby animals that was full of amazing facts about all kinds of creatures. One of the discoveries that I found most interesting had to do with baby ducks and how they imprint.
When baby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Forgotten Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Echols</dc:creator>
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On January 4th, our team in Haiti discovered that brokenness has faces as we entered a walled in property that consisted of a cinderblock building and an acre of barren land. It was hard to imagine that this placed housed 120 orphans. 60% of their parents had died of HIV/AIDS, 40% were abandoned on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earthquake in Haiti</title>
		<link>http://echolsjourney.com/2010/01/earthquake-in-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Echols</dc:creator>
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Surreal&#8230;that&#8217;s the best I can describe the feeling of seeing images and hearing stories of the devastation in Haiti. To think that our team was there 1 week ago is unreal. Our hotel (pictured below) in the city of Jacmel is demolished. Thankfully, we have heard from our friends in both Port-au-Prince and Jacmel and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elementary Small Groups in 3D</title>
		<link>http://echolsjourney.com/2009/12/elementary-small-groups-in-3d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Echols</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[12Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's ministry]]></category>

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At 12Stone Church we often get asked, &#8220;How do you organize your elementary small groups?&#8221; Throughout our services we transition between large group &#38; small groups at various times to discuss the Bible Story and maintain interaction within the groups. We want our small group to be 3D:
DO &#8211; This is our hands-on element. Our [...]]]></description>
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