SPAM

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SMALL
PLACES
ARE
MAGNIFICENT!

-- Until today SPAM has been a bad word to me. Not anymore.

A brainstorm this morning changed that.

I still hate canned meat (even if it warrants a museum), and unsolicited e-mails.

However. . .


SMALL-TOWN PASTORS ARE MIGHTY.
SMALL-TOWN PARISHONERS ARE MOBILIZED.
SMALL-TOWN PARTNERSHIPS ARE MISSIONAL.
SMALL PLACE AS MISSION!
SMALL PLACES ARE MARVELOUS!

I LOVE than kind of SPAM!

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  1. Chops1:16 AM

    My Friend in New York at the Hamburg Wesleyan Church does a SPAM-O-RAMA event for the youth. This is where they do a sort of field day where each game involves SPAM (the meat.) Everything from SPAM carving to time in the SPAM Chamber. Teens have a great time but moms never like to pick up their kids. (They don't like the car to smell like SPAM.)

    Just as different kind of spam for you.

    SPAM-ming for Jesus,

    Ben Sorrells
    www.standinthegapstuff.blogspot.com

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