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	<title>Ivy Farms Baptist Church</title>
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	<description>A Caring Community of Faith in Newport News, VA</description>
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		<title>Church Membership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to be a &#8220;member&#8221; of a church?  What are the qualifications, and what are the responsibilities?  It depends on what kind of church you are.
Ivy Farms is a Southern Baptist congregation.  All members are believers in Jesus Christ as a personal savior.  All have confessed their sinfulness and put their faith [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com&blog=3003905&post=26&subd=ivyfarmsbaptist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/church-membership/</link>
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		<title>Fireproof, the Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a movie about to be released called Fireproof. It will be in theaters Sep 26.
It&#8217;s about a man and a woman, husband and wife, with a marriage in trouble.  His job as a fireman is a metaphor for what&#8217;d happening at home.  Small fires keep popping up, and it&#8217;s all he can do to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com&blog=3003905&post=21&subd=ivyfarmsbaptist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/fireproof-the-movie/</link>
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		<title>Courage To Be God&#8217;s People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the friends of the church writes for TurnaroundChurches.  He has a new post that quotes a speech by Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard in 1978: “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com&blog=3003905&post=17&subd=ivyfarmsbaptist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/courage-to-be-gods-people/</link>
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		<title>Hot Dog-o-Roma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Come out Wednesday, Aug 27 for a community picnic at the church.
The highlight will be the hot dog eating contest.
More important, it&#8217;s a chance to meet your neighbors.
And it&#8217;s walking distance.
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		<link>http://ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/hot-dog-o-roma/</link>
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		<title>Celebrating the Absence of the Spirit of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JL Fuller, a Mormon apologist, has a great comment to a posting on the Whats This Mormon Thing?&#8221; blog.  In it, he suggests that although we regret losing the presence of the Holy Spirit, it is that temporary loss that God uses to build our faith.
When He returns I understand I benefited from His [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com&blog=3003905&post=12&subd=ivyfarmsbaptist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/celebrating-the-absence-of-the-spirit-of-god/</link>
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		<title>Taking a break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although Ivy Farms Baptist continues services each Sunday morning at 10:45am, GracePlace is taking a break for the summer.  I&#8217;m over committed and our small congregation agreed to suspend for the summer, and tackle the restart again in the fall.
What did we learn?

The facilities are old and tired.  It was difficult running sound [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com&blog=3003905&post=11&subd=ivyfarmsbaptist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/taking-a-break/</link>
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		<title>The Bells Are Sold!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Praise God!
GracePlace, the evening experimental congregation at Ivy Farms Baptist, needs operating revenue – for a video projector, sound equipment improvements, advertising, etc. I looked around the church and found an unused set of handbells, 4 cases with 37 bells in fairly good shape. The church authorized me to sell them, so I put out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com&blog=3003905&post=10&subd=ivyfarmsbaptist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/the-bells-are-sold/</link>
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		<title>World Athiest Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, March 30, World Athiest Day will be commemorated during the 6pm service at Ivy Farms Baptist Church, 55 Ivy Farms Road, Newport News, VA. 23601
Speaker Mike Mitchell will actually use the church&#8217;s Bible, psalms 14, verse 1, to describe how the Day came to be recognized.
Seating is limited.  Call 595-0577 to reserve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com&blog=3003905&post=9&subd=ivyfarmsbaptist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/world-athiest-day/</link>
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		<title>Former Muslim to explain &#8220;Why Be a Christian?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
If you&#8217;re in the area, 
Come hear Nabeel Qureshi, a former Muslim, explain 
why he believes in Christ as Lord and 
what Christians can do to better 
share their faith with their Muslim friends.
Nabeel Qureshi had grown up with devout Muslim parents and had read the entire Qur’an in Arabic by age 5. He has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com&blog=3003905&post=8&subd=ivyfarmsbaptist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/former-muslim-explains-why-be-a-christian/</link>
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		<title>GracePlace Worship, Feb 24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GracePlace
Worship Service
Feb 24, 2008, 6pm
 
Lighting of the Worship Candle
Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father of lights,
with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
(James 1:17)
Songs of Worship 
My Maker and My King
1 Chron 29:14, Eph 1:3
 
My Maker and my King, To Thee my all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com&blog=3003905&post=7&subd=ivyfarmsbaptist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ivyfarmsbaptist.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/graceplace-worship-feb-24/</link>
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