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	<title><![CDATA[Values Classes Lead to Bible Studies]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[We are cooperating with SEND&amp;rsquo;s National &amp;ldquo;Teaching Values in the Public Schools&amp;rdquo; project and as a result volunteers from our church are teaching 10 classes each week in two different public elementary schools.  As we make friends with the students and visit them in their homes we have open opportunities to present the Gospel to their families. We have also been invited to present seminars on parenting and class discipline to the teachers. These seminars led to a twice monthly Bible Study Class with Public School teachers at our church. The teachers have many questions and it is fun to lead this Bible study. One recent question they asked was, &amp;ldquo;How can we explain Adam and Eve as the origin of the human race when in our textbooks evolution teaches that we came from apes?&amp;rdquo; One of the teachers has invited us to conduct a Bible study for all of the teachers in her school. Pray for God&amp;rsquo;s help to speak directly to the spiritual needs of these teachers. <br />
-Mike and Carolyn Ballast]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.send.org/index.cfm?pageid=1214&amp;news=1021]]></link>
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	<title><![CDATA[VOICE Program Continues to Expand]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The VOICE program, being implemented in Filipino schools to reach children through values education, continues to expand.&amp;nbsp; The latest goal: 210 in 2010&amp;hellip;210 churches partnering with VOICE during the school year of 2010/2011, an increase of 60 churches. VOICE staff has been running to keep up with requests for trainings&amp;mdash;to the north and south; in fact, curriculum distribution the past six months is more than double that of the same period last year! Some initial print runs have been depleted and reprinted. All of this represents more students hearing God&amp;rsquo;s Word each week in their classrooms. Praise God! <br />
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Perhaps God has more than the Philippines in mind for this Bible values program. Laura Bonney and Ruth Haynes have just returned from a three-week Vision Trip to Uganda. The need for such teaching in &amp;ldquo;the pearl of Africa&amp;rdquo; is absolutely overwhelming and the opportunity for Christians to teach it in the schools appears equally great. Children&amp;rsquo;s curriculum is almost non-existent, even for Sunday schools&amp;hellip;despite the fact that about 50% of the population is 15 years or younger. Many questions remain, but we are challenged to &amp;ldquo;lengthen the cords and strengthen the stakes&amp;rdquo; (Isaiah 54:2) as God opens the doors. Pray!]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.send.org/index.cfm?pageid=1214&amp;news=980]]></link>
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