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      <title>An Easy &amp;amp; Cost-Effective Way for Church Leaders To Collaborate</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Some time ago, a pastor of a 1,000 member church asked my opinion regarding the need for a server and local area network for the church. At that time I expressed that I believed these were essential tools for any church that is 650 people or larger.
It is very common for churches to add part-time and full time staff as they grow, yet fail to provide their staff with the tools they require to collaborate together as a team. In addition, when a church lacks a server/network, all important files m...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00035.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:21:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>AssessME.org Is Now Available</title>
      <description><![CDATA[       ...You Were Made For A Mission!For several years, E-Church Essentials has received requests from main-stream churches who were not yet ready for all our postmodern online ministry tools, to output our Online Assessment Center as a stand alone program.  We have been working on fulfilling this request over the past year.  The result?  AssessME.org (http://www.assessme.org) is now alive!AssessME.org converts any ministry website into an online assessment center designed exclusively for lay m...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00034.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00034.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:29:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FREE Podcast Reader from E-Church Essentials</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Podcasting?  What is that and why should I care?That's what many ministry professionals often ask me.  They have heard about podcasting, but they don't understand its awesome potential for ministry.Podcasting is literally broadcasting audio files via the internet.  The common audio file format is .MP3.  Through podcasting, your ministry can broadcast teachings, meditations, announcements, worship...literally anything that people would prefer to listen to rather than read.  Just like radio and te...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00033.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00033.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:19:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Take the Pre-Release Spiritual Formation Assessment for FREE</title>
      <description><![CDATA[E-Church Essentials and Online Deiscipleship are pleased to announce a new Assessment that will be available for purchase in the very near future.  The current assessments found within E-Church Essentials and within the soon to be released AssessME.org all focus on mobilizing people for ministry.  However, it is just as important, may be more important, to know how to nurture people in their spiritual development. The Spiritual Formation assessment is very different in format than any of David's...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00032.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00032.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:53:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Sneak Preview At AssessME.org...It will revolutionize and streamline your ministry!</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Coming soon, targeted for March of 2006, is AssessME.org.  AssessME.org is a new division of E-Church Essentials.  But where as E-Church Essentials is an all-inclusive online ministry system that may be beyond the present scope of some churches, AssessME.org has one specific purpose...to unleash the ministry team mobilization assessments, as well as the data search and sort capabilities found within E-Church Essentials, for use within your own ministry website.AssessME.org will create a portal t...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00031.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00031.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:25:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Video Teaching On Evangelism That Will Likely Challenge Your Methodology</title>
      <description><![CDATA[I was recently reminded of a teaching that I had initially heard on the radio quite some time ago.  When I first heard it, it gripped me to the core.  As a pastoral person who is passionate about reaching people for Christ, my methods were likely similar to that of many contemporary pastors.  But this teaching really challenged me to think differently about my methodology.  I want to encourage you to watch the video teaching associated with the link below.  I would be very interested to hear fro...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00030.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00030.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Strategies that Drive People from Around the World to Your Online Equipping Center, Part 2</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last month I shared with you free or very inexpensive strategies for driving people within your ministry region to your online equipping center.  This month, I will now turn my focus to strategies that will help your ministry “go into all the world and make disciples”.
 
Some ministries utilizing E-Church Essentials have already seen the benefit of being part of an online ministry network.  One pastor called me about ten days after they registered their ministry…they had not built a website or...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00029.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00029.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:16:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>An Alternative to another Costly Building Campaign</title>
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I recently spoke with an elder of a local church who confided in me that his elder board was beginning to explore the possibility of a new building campaign. Their church presently has two crowded services and is having to move to a third service.  My response about initiating a building campaign was less than enthusiastic.  

If you have read some of my past articles like “Bye, Bye, Boomers” then you know my concerns regarding churches that accumulate massive debt that cannot be paid off wi...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00028.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00028.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:48:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How To Make Your Ministry Website &amp;quot;Sticky&amp;quot; with Young Adults</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A "Sticky" website is one that captures a visitor's attention and keeps them returning over and over again.  There are two strategies that generally result in your website becoming "Sticky":

Provide Resources That Your Visitors Repeatedly Need 
Provide Interesting Interactivity
For this brief resource article, I want to focus on FREE sources of interesting interactivity...namely, online games and cartoons.  Online games can cause young adults to visit your website, return repeatedly to your...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00027.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00027.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:42:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Generation 2 Concept Results</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last month I asked our readers to view a proposed generation 2 version of E-Church Essentials which would allow our ministries to upload their own logo for use on every page, colorize the background to match their unique ministry coloration, and to insert their own description of their online equipping center.  An additional goal, is to move E-Church Essentials one step closer to broader browser compatability (We are waiting to see what Steve Jobs does with Macs in 2006!).  Below are the results...<br/><a href="http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00026.aspx">LINK</a>]]></description>
      <link>http://blogs.echurchnetwork.net/Newsletter/permalink/00026.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:39:55 GMT</pubDate>
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