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		<title>Why Connect?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 10:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brunk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part 3 of 5 in the Sunday School in the smaller attendance church series. In my ministry context of Oklahoma, 1200 of our 1800 churches have less than 100 people in attendance. Sunday School in smaller attendance churches is done a little differently than in say, a megachurch of 3,000. Today’s post (and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things I Wish I Knew – Catch &amp; Release</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 20:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mayfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, &#8220;catch and release&#8221; became the gentlemanly thing to do as a fisherman. I love to fish, but lakes in our area were becoming overfished. Catch and release was the solution to a simple problem. The fun in fishing is catching fish, and releasing them back into the lake after taking a pic of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life-Changing Bible Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 10:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brunk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part 2 of 5 in the Sunday School in the smaller attendance church series. In my ministry context of Oklahoma, 1200 of our 1800 churches have less than 100 people in attendance. Sunday School in smaller attendance churches is done a little differently than in say, a megachurch of 3,000. Today’s post (and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things I Wish I Knew – Don’t Make Excuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mayfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third post in a series &#8220;Things I wish I Knew When I Started&#8230;&#8221; View previous posts in this series here. Don&#8217;t Make Excuses I was young and in my first year as a minister of education at a fast growing church. I had scheduled a meeting with some of my adult Sunday School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clarity of Purpose</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mayfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday School may be one of the most misunderstood aspects of the local church. In fact, walk into any Sunday School class (or your church&#8217;s functional equivalent &#8211; small group, LifeGroup, Community Group, etc.), hand out some index  cards and ask each person in the group to write their definition of Sunday School on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday School In the Smaller Attendance Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mayfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are starting a five week series on Tuesdays during the month of May about Sunday School in the smaller attendance church. In my ministry context of Oklahoma, 1200 of our 1800 churches have less than 100 people in attendance. Sunday School in smaller attendance churches is done a little differently than in say, a megachurch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat That Frog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mayfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is the second in a series of articles called &#8220;Things I Wish I Knew When I Started...&#8221; View the previous post in the series here, &#8220;Support Your Local Pastor&#8221; When I was a kid, my dad always had a caption that he attached to the glass of his car&#8217;s speedometer that he had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Faves on Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mayfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are my five favorite links for the week: What do you want on your tombstone? by Tim Harlow Four Steps to Take When Your Sunday School is Dying, by Steve Parr (at joshhunt.com) Three Steps to Impacting Your Community, by Eddie Mosley Three Verses every Small Group Pastor, Leader, and Coach Should Know, by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday School Is For Real Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mayfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend is the annual Rewired Men&#8217;s Retreat at Falls Creek, sponsored by the BGCO and led by my good friend and colleague, Keith Burkhart. Keith leads a dedicated group of guys that are committed to reaching men with the Gospel and helping them become devoted followers of Christ, devoted husbands, devoted dads, and devoted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoma ME Tour 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mayfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, a group of about 20 Oklahoma Ministers of Education toured our state with Ken Marler, church consultant with LifeWay Christian Resources. We partnered with four associations (yes we do work with associations in Oklahoma, and we couldn&#8217;t have done this without them) on a tour that covered four days. Our purpose was to [...]]]></description>
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