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		<title>New Church Growth Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, March 17, 2010
US Catholic population rises by nearly 1 million; Mormons 4th-largest religious body 
The Catholic population of the United States rose from 67,117,016 to 68,115,001 between the beginning and end of 2008&#8211; an increase of 1.49%, according to the recently published 2010 Yearbook of American &#38; Canadian Churches. In 2007, the Catholic population [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why It&#8217;s Important to Remind our Congregations about Lent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article has two styles of Lenten bulletin inserts, one using clipart, one with a modified photo.Each PDF has two images per 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet.  Use the back side to include invitations to events, websites or verses for additional study or a place for a prayer list for your people to use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/why-its-important-to-remind-our-congregations-about-lent.php</link>
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		<title>Saving the Titanic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a wonderful article &#8211; it is an interesting comparison and thought it might be an interesting read&#8230;.
by Stephen Gray 2/18/2010

On April 15, 1912, the unthinkable happened when White Star Lines unsinkable ship, the Titanic, sank. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 of the 2,223 people on board, making it one of the deadliest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/saving-the-titanic.php</link>
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		<title>Website Assistance and Social Marketing for Churches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even as some of us deny websites and other social media outlets, and overlook the fact that our congregations are actively engaged on the internet, newspapers are going out of business, civic engagement is at an all-time high online (especially, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, &#8220;the wealthy and well-educated&#8221;), and nearly half of U.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/social-marketing-for-churches.php</link>
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		<title>Ten Ways to Prepare Your Church for Company This Advent Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[10)  Take a look around your narthex and hallways.  Make sure old papers are down, plants look fresh, and bulletin boards are updated.
9)  Make sure current information booklets of your church are readily available and easy to see, and pew cards are current.
8)  Make sure the Bible the pastor is reading from is available in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/ten-ways-to-prepare-your-church-for-company-this-advent-season.php</link>
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		<title>Amended From Earlier Post &#8220;Jesus Doesn&#8217;t Go On Vacation&#8221;:  Well, Yes He Does Whenever I Do!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have previously mentioned the idea that while churches seem to go on a siesta during the summer months, attendance is low and we may want to do something about the mindset that it&#8217;s okay to miss a lot of what goes on in the church in the summer.  I still agree with all of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/amended-from-earlier-post-jesus-doesnt-go-on-vacation-well-yes-he-does-whenever-i-do.php</link>
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		<title>How Has The Meaning of Evangelism Changed Today?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’re sitting in your local church, wondering what you can do to help your church grow or even how to help it survive.  How can people understand your church, your church family, and your missions unless they somehow hear of you in the first place?  We think our neighbors are choosing not to attend our church, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/welcome.php</link>
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		<title>How To Build Church Attendance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Barna Research Group says that while the building of new churches grew in the first decade of the 21st century, church attendance did not. With so many options afforded to churchgoers, like web church, house church and drive-in church, traditional church attendance has waned. The unchurched also remains a group that continues to grow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/how-to-build-church-attendance.php</link>
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		<title>A Personal Instruction For A New Vision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, &#8220;All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/a-personal-instruction-for-a-new-vision.php</link>
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		<title>Church Strategies for the 21st Century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As churches try to maintain membership and maybe even expand in the 21st century, church leaders are increasingly finding that aggressive strategies are necessary to preserve the church. As churchgoers find themselves more rushed, under higher pressure and lacking time to commit to worship, a new approach may be necessary for 21st century congregations.
 
Here are three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/church-strategies-for-the-21st-century.php</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Ways You Know You&#8217;re A Presbyterian&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[10.) You can tell non-Presbyterians who some famous Presbyterians are (i.e., Mr. Rogers);
 
9.) You form a committee, then a sub-committee, and then a sub-committee for the sub-committee just to try to figure out where to go for lunch;
 
8.) You have used the phrase “It’s okay, I’m Presbyterian” to justify any stupid antics over the years;
 
7.) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/top-ten-ways-you-know-youre-a-presbyterian.php</link>
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		<title>The Joy of Dreaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am not going to stop dreaming of a new kind of faith for the millions of us who need it. I am not going to stop dreaming of new kinds of communities that put the love of God and the brilliance of Jesus on display in honest, compelling ways. I am not going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/the-joy-of-dreaming.php</link>
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		<title>What People Are Saying&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The cook out and ice cream social that we had last week with our summer rec attendees was awesome. That event came about as a result of your initial visit. All of us were floating high for several days. Thank you for helping us get out of a box and improve something we were doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/what-people-are-saying-about-a-new-vision.php</link>
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		<title>The Sunny Side of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you think of evangelism, what comes to mind? Usually people will have at least one story of setting a dog off on someone, or not being able to get rid of “them” while the dinner is burning in the kitchen.
These stories are usually about being evangelized to, not about doing the evangelizing ourselves. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anewvisionforchurches.com/evangelism/the-sunny-side-of-god.php</link>
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		<title>Welcome!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to A New Vision for Churches and Congregations! This site is dedicated to helping make your churches more visible to your neighborhoods. Keep looking around the site, and you&#8217;ll find ideas and tools you can use to help your church go &#8220;outside the box&#8221; with evangelism, outreach, and missions.
Do you sometimes get frustrated with [...]]]></description>
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