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		<title>Spring Reading</title>
		<link>http://www.edminsters.com/2009/02/spring-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of my reading projects for the first quarter of 2009. Some interesting material here that might inspire a few posts down the line. Bible in Estonian I&#8217;ve never read through the Bible cover to cover in Estonian so I figured it&#8217;s about time I give it a shot. We were warned in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connor&#8217;s Question</title>
		<link>http://www.edminsters.com/2008/03/connors-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the days when things weren&#8217;t so hyper-regulated, my siblings and I used to take turns spending the night with my dad while he worked at the hospital. We&#8217;d hob-nob with the various docs and nurses and learn all sorts of interesting and disgusting things about the medical emergencies people find themselves in. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mission and Storytelling</title>
		<link>http://www.edminsters.com/2007/11/voices-article-mission-and-storytelling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[?That which we have seen, which we have heard, which we have touched with our hands ? that we proclaim to you. We declare to you what we have seen and heard so that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statement of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following is the statement of faith I've prepared for my final examination before the Presbytery on the 15th of September. I thought I might put it out here to see what you think. Any comments or challenges are welcome!

<blockquote>There is only One God who alone in all the cosmos deserves honor, glory and praise. God alone is the source, the measure and the purpose of all creation. God exists as He has revealed Himself in history: Father, Son and Holy Spirit – three coequal, co-eternal persons selflessly affirming one another in perfect community. From the boundless resources of this inner abundance, the Triune God creates, sustains, governs and redeems all the cosmos. In selfless love, God extended Himself in the act of creation. God made all things to His glory and upon completion they were rightly declared to be whole and good. </blockquote>]]></description>
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		<title>Spring 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.edminsters.com/2007/03/spring-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Estonia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, Our intention for some time now has been to send you quarterly prayer letters and this no doubt would have made it much easier for us to communicate our experiences in depth. But we have been so incessantly busy this year that writing and publishing a prayer letter has been relegated to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chaplaincy Challenges: Early Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.edminsters.com/2006/11/chaplaincy-challenges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I had my first full day of visitations at Vancouver General Hospital as part of a chaplaincy internship I am enrolled in. The program will last until the end of next April and requires one 8 hour day of rotations at the hospital along with an 8 hour teaching day each week. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.edminsters.com/2006/06/spring-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, Lea and I are wrapping up our business in Vancouver and preparing for our third and final summer project in Estonia. This summer’s tasks will be highly varied and so we are expecting it to be even more rich and rigorous than our previous summers have been. This is due largely to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of the things that troubles me most &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.edminsters.com/2006/06/important-resources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that troubles me most about ministry talk in the church is how often we elevate monetary and physical resources above human ones and how this juxtaposition of values can undermine our ultimate mission. It seems to me that Church history would indicate that some of our healthiest seasons have been when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missionary Professionalism?</title>
		<link>http://www.edminsters.com/2005/12/the-case-for-professionalism-in-missions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edminsters.com/2005/12/the-case-for-professionalism-in-missions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a paper I wrote for Pastoral Ethics in the Fall semester of 2005. When I first entered the mission field after graduating from college, I did so as an intern. I was sent to serve alongside a small congregation in Estonia working to support the youth ministry. I had committed two years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall 2004</title>
		<link>http://www.edminsters.com/2004/09/fall-2004/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edminsters.com/2004/09/fall-2004/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, We arrived in Tallinn on St. John’s night – the longest day of the year and Estonia’s biggest national celebration – and were deeply satisfied to be back in the land of family, friends, dark bread and weekly saunas. There wasn’t much time for rest though. Our first two weeks were full of [...]]]></description>
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