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Calibrate - Kevin Ragsdale random thoughts

Kevin Ragsdale
Calibrate Conference
May 16, 2008
The most important thing we did was to get volunteers that loved students to walk along side with us.
In order to create a healthy ministry you must be able to lead people (not students)
1.    I think there is a direct correlation between your ability to lead and how much influence you […]

30May2008 | studenw4 | 0 comments | Continued
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11 Principles of Church Growth

I have had the privilege over the last five years to work with an individual who has not made a name for himself in the publishing world or even tried to capitalize on his talents. However, this is the only individual I know of in the church world who has taken two churches from […]

30May2008 | studenw4 | 0 comments | Continued
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Starting Over

Written by BJ Bungard
“I’m a youth minister and I just switched churches.” That phrase seems more common than others in the church world. I was speaking with a long-lost friend on the phone the other day and found out that he moved churches just recently. I told him that was fitting because […]

30May2008 | studenw4 | 2 comments | Continued
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Teen alleging rape turns to YouTube

I tried to link this article to plugrug and was unsuccessful so I thought I would do it this way and share the information with all of you. It is interesting what influence media is having in our world today.
Teen alleging rape turns to YouTube
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/15/rape.online/index.html
CNN) — The video is hard to turn away from. […]

23May2008 | studenw4 | 0 comments | Continued
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Rob Bell on teaching

Many of us are looking at ways to become the next great teacher. Whether it is for us personally in our churches or because we want to travel and share the Gospel message does not really matter. We all want to be better teachers of the Gospel. I ran across […]

21May2008 | studenw4 | 1 comment | Continued