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		<title>Post-Camp Cherokee Reflect: What Now?</title>
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There is something about the few days following camp that are rough.  Maybe it is my body trying to remember life pre-craziness without constant sunburn and non-stop outdoor activity or maybe it was five hours of sleep every night.  Maybe it is the absence of matching outfits.  But I think the real issue is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camp Cherokee- Week 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m finally rested from the great week we just had with our middle school peeps from FBC Cleveland, TN.  I always love middle school camps.  It might because I can tell my stupid jokes at a higher success rate but it is really because it was when I was at camp in middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Things: Baby Banner!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are reading this on beggartown.org than I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve noticed something a little different about your virtual surroundings.  We have a new website.  So take a look around and  tell us what you think.
But for more important matters: Isaac Banner Dodd was born on May 14th, 2010 (his great great grandmas birthday) weighing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beggartown.org/blog/?p=1255</link>
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		<title>They Need Our Help!</title>
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I am not quite sure how to write this blog because this is a heartbreaking thing to share.  The two children&#8217;s homes that Beggartown has been helping to support in Mongolia and Nicaragua are dangerously close to closing their doors due to a lack of funding.  WEGO, the ministry that runs the two homes, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beggartown.org/blog/?p=1087</link>
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		<title>Pascagoula &amp; Nica Coffee</title>
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I think I am just now caught up on the sleep I lost this weekend after our time with the students from First Baptist Church of Pascagoula, MS.  Unlike the deer that the car in front of us hit on our drive down, we had an awesome weekend!  I really love going back to places [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We join the millions of heartbroken and grieving people in the world for Haiti right NOW.  I cannot watch cnn without being overwhelmed with grief for the destruction of a country and the loss of life within it.  We just had a great weekend with the students at Houston&#8217;s First Baptist Church.  I led worship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;God Has Come to Us&#8221;- A Free Download</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, this is Christmas so I wanted to share with you my favorite song I&#8217;ve ever written.  Appropriately enough, it is a Christmas song.  I wrote it December of &#8216;07 while recording Children Without Names.  You can click on the song to listen or right click it to download it.  I hope you enjoy it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Store + 50% off + Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey Friends,
2 new technological updates for you.
#1: STORE
I just changed the way our online store is working.  We are now using google checkout- which is better for you and for me.  To celebrate our new store we have a 50% off coupon available through the rest of the year! Just enter in btownchristmas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beggartown.org/blog/?p=977</link>
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		<title>The Closing of an Open Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, after 199 days of being nomads, we&#8217;re done!  Carlie and I set out on May 15, 2009 on an open road.  We packed all of our stuff up into a 10 x 15 storage unit in Louisville, KY and set off on a journey unknown.  Carlie and I didn&#8217;t even know where we would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beggartown.org/blog/?p=929</link>
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		<title>Mongolia Newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just finished up our Beggartown newsletter about our time in Mongolia!  Follow this link to read it or download it.  If you would like to be on our physical mailing list and are not, email me your address at zach@beggartown.org.
Mongolia Newsletter
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		<link>http://beggartown.org/blog/?p=925</link>
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		<title>Michigan, Michigan!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carlie and I just got back late last night from a great weekend in Owosso, Michigan.  We were invited by Community EPC Church to come be a part of their missions conference.  It was actually are first time ever to step foot in the &#8220;Great Lake State&#8221;.  We were invited to come and lead worship [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beggartown.org/blog/?p=916</link>
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		<title>Mongolia- Big Change of Plans!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This might be one of the last blogs I would expect to write about our time in Mongolia&#8230;but a very exciting one.  Carlie and I are actually back in the states a few weeks earlier than planned.  We knew that when we came back to America that the kids at the orphanage would be forever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mongolia- Week 4</title>
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This was a very special week.  The highlight, and I think of the trip, was Odka and Zaya’s birthday party last Wednesday night.  It was Odka’s actual birthday and we did all we could to make it special because it was the first birthday that he celebrated at his new home.  (Today is Zaya&#8217;s birthday!) There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mongolia- Week 2 1/2</title>
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We have now been in Mongolia for 20 days. Each one has come with its own story and memory. Although our time here has been relatively short thus far I find it hard to remember what “life” was like before. Maybe it’s the jetlag but I think it is because I just feel comfortable here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mongolia- Week 2</title>
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I’m trying to think how I can cram all that has happened this week into a few paragraphs. Most of this last week was filled with Carlie and I acting like we knew what we were doing: Carlie teaching English, me teaching piano, helping to tear down a ger, and us both farming. We spent [...]]]></description>
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