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		<title>When in Rome&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.J. Boyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an oasis in the city of Rome, a quiet place amid the constant noise, a refuge for lay ecclesial ministers and other lay students in the ecclesiastical capital of the western Church. It is the Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas, housed in the sprawling Passionist Monastery of Sts. John and Paul, on one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layministry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4054611&amp;post=179&amp;subd=layministry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Help promote Lay Ministry Sunday in your parish or diocese</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc DelMonico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we look toward fall, we also want to look back to late August and a celebration of Lay Ministry Sunday in the Diocese or Raleigh, NC. Bishop Burbidge has done great work there in promoting a specific day in the life of the diocese to celebrate the gifts of people called to lay ecclesial ministry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layministry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4054611&amp;post=177&amp;subd=layministry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NALM National Conference 2009 in Pictures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc DelMonico</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[lay ministry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Chris Anderson and Cathy Melesky-Dante for contributing their pictures to my own to create this flickr slide show of the sights of the 2009 NALM Conference!
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		<title>Liveblogging the NALM Conference &#8211; St. Paul, MN &#8211; &#8220;Ministry 2.0: Integrating Online Education and Web 2.0 Technologies into Lay Ministry Formation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 17:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc DelMonico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Charlotte McCorquodale – “Ministry Formation 2.0: Online Education and Web 2.0 Technologies into Lay Ministry Formation   Charlotte recognizes that technology, for better or for worse, is a part of our world. It must therefore be part of our ministry preparation.   Using the image of shifts in music technology, we see that shifts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layministry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4054611&amp;post=169&amp;subd=layministry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liveblogging the NALM Conference &#8211; St. Paul, MN &#8211; &#8220;You Are the Potter, We Are the Clay&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 15:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc DelMonico</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Co-Workers in the Vineyard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Zeni Fox – “You are the Potter, We are the Clay”   Reflections on Co-Workers document and the State of the Questions that preceeded it.   The theology of lay ecclesial ministry as a key part of the document. Simply presented, it is nonetheless powerful and important. Life of believer as call and response [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layministry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4054611&amp;post=166&amp;subd=layministry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liveblogging the NALM Conference &#8211; St. Paul, MN &#8211; &#8220;Growing Stronger as Leaders in Changing Times&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://layministry.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/liveblogging-the-nalm-conference-st-paul-mn-growing-stronger-as-leaders-in-changing-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc DelMonico</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon breakout was offered by John Reid, former chair of NALM and founder of the Reid Group, which does church consulting and mediation.  Check them out at www.thereidgroup.biz A focus on understand the process of change as &#8220;see, feel, change&#8221; rather than &#8220;think, act, change&#8221; was the foundation of John&#8217;s talk, along with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layministry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4054611&amp;post=163&amp;subd=layministry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liveblogging the NALM Conference &#8211; St. Paul, MN &#8211; NALM Business Luncheon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc DelMonico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many significant details were discussed at the NALM lunch over some delicious steak and potatoes! The salient bits: NALM has had a busy and successful 2008, and has finished in the black.  We are grateful to the Lily Foundation&#8217;s $1 million grant for continuing work on the Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership project. (More at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layministry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4054611&amp;post=161&amp;subd=layministry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liveblogging the NALM Conference &#8211; St. Paul, MN &#8211; &#8220;Supporting Ministers in Transition &#8211; From Graduate Studies to the First Ministry Position&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc DelMonico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genevieve L. Mougey and Dr. Barbara Sutton – “Supporting Ministers in Transition – From Graduate Studies to the First Ministry Position  This was from breakout session 1 on Thursday morning. Others are welcome to comment to post their experiences of other workshops   Lilly Foundation has given money to Protestant churches to study students in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layministry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4054611&amp;post=159&amp;subd=layministry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liveblogging the NALM Conference &#8211; St. Paul, MN &#8211; &#8220;The Bible in Parish Catechesis&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc DelMonico</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[catechesis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Charles Bobetz – “The Bible in Parish Catechesis and Formation: Where We Are and How We Got Here   These are my (unedited) notes from this very dynamic presentation – certainly a conference highlight! I’ve included a few of my own comments in line (after all it’s me doing the blogging!)   A great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layministry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4054611&amp;post=157&amp;subd=layministry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liveblogging NALM Conference &#8211; St. Paul, MN &#8211; &#8220;Ministering With the Heart of Christ&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc DelMonico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[7:50 pm : Questions for discussions &#8211; What other virtues are important for ministers? What other aspects of the heart of Christ are important? Also, Thinking of people who have ministered to you, what were the qualities of heart that made them effective ministers to you? At my table, the virtues of presence and honesty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layministry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4054611&amp;post=135&amp;subd=layministry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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