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		<title>Hope and Health, from just $10.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 06:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas y&#8217;all! Just wanted to bring some light to a great thing that Compassion International is doin&#8217; now. Ricky &#38; I love the idea of using some of the money God is blessing us with the ability to buy something that a child from a 3rd world country or an extremely poor person needs. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chelan.me&#038;blog=1955011&#038;post=2617&#038;subd=chelaners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All-Star Cast of Musicians to Join w/Compassion International for an AMAZING online Concert!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t wait til Feb. 27th! One month following the 7.1 earthquake that struck Haiti, an all-star cast of musicians is gathering for “Help Haiti Live,” a two-city (in LA @ the historic Wiltern Theater &#38; Nashville&#8217;s famous Ryman Auditorium) ticketed concert event taking place on February 27th, 2010 to benefit Compassion International’s Haiti disaster relief fund. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chelan.me&#038;blog=1955011&#038;post=2268&#038;subd=chelaners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blessed to be a blessing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are we here, if not to bring glory to God. Can you think of a better way to glorify your God than to help ease suffering children by providing for them medicine, schooling, &#38; nourishment for thier bodies &#38; spirits? So many are waiting to be chosen &#38; sponsored. Please consider joining the ranks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chelan.me&#038;blog=1955011&#038;post=1827&#038;subd=chelaners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Recession in light of giving</title>
		<link>http://chelan.me/2009/06/15/the-recession-in-light-of-giving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you start eliminating when your budget&#8217;s tight? Somethin&#8217;s gotta give, right? Starbucks? Clothes shopping? Restaurants? Or that charity you signed up for a while back?  The President of Compassion Int&#8217;l, our favorite non-prof., just sent me an email saying essentially that their numbers have dropped dramatically &#8211; people are either not signing up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chelan.me&#038;blog=1955011&#038;post=1688&#038;subd=chelaners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Email from Shaun Groves</title>
		<link>http://chelan.me/2009/03/19/my-email-from-shaun-groves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[About Chelan {or Ricky}]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wonderful news report about Global Food Crisis Day! Here&#8217;s a snippet from an email I just rec&#8217;d from musician/Bloggers&#8217; Manager for Compassion, Mr. Shaun Groves: &#8220;On March 11th almost 500 &#8230; bloggers and almost 1,000 radio stations partnered with Compassion International to raise awareness and funds to benefit those currently affected by the global food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chelan.me&#038;blog=1955011&#038;post=1343&#038;subd=chelaners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Perfect Day</title>
		<link>http://chelan.me/2009/03/11/a-perfect-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever wondered if or when you should give anything to people who are suffering from hunger and poverty, the answer is YES, and today is a perfect day to start.   Just a few years back, I remember moving to a new a new area with no job. We had no income to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chelan.me&#038;blog=1955011&#038;post=1308&#038;subd=chelaners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>24 ~ in three different lights</title>
		<link>http://chelan.me/2009/02/18/24-in-three-different-lights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love &#8220;24&#8243;. Jack can save the world &#8211; save &#8220;millions&#8221; of lives in just 24 hours. My last 24 hours wasn&#8217;t as exciting. Yesterday was long. Work went well, but kind of stressful. I was feeling stuffy trying to fight off a chest-cold with air-borne, and neither my little girl nor myself could take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chelan.me&#038;blog=1955011&#038;post=1219&#038;subd=chelaners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>today is blog action day! spotlight: poverty</title>
		<link>http://chelan.me/2008/10/15/today-is-blog-action-day-spotlight-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chelan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[this year&#8217;s global conversation is all about poverty. last yr.s was the environment. if you want in on the action today, you know what to do! http://site.blogactionday.org/about/ i&#8217;m just a single voice to let people know of an unbelievably wise &#38; generous way to knock out poverty, one child sponsorship @ a time: compassion international.  shaun [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chelan.me&#038;blog=1955011&#038;post=868&#038;subd=chelaners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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