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		<title>Thoughts on the Water of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jesus told the woman at the well, “Ask me and I will give you living water that you will never thirst again.”  The Bible is full of the water of life images.  Revelation tells us that heaven has a river that flows through it with the water of life.  Psalm 1 speaks of the image [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2010/07/29/thoughts-on-the-water-of-life/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on my trip to Rwanda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A week ago I was still in Rwanda, Africa, spending time with orphans who  lived (on a good day) on bananas, beans and peanuts.  Their living  conditions were mud brick houses that had no furniture.  Some of the  older kids were orphaned by the 1994 genocide and others by the death of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2010/07/22/thoughts-on-my-trip-to-rwanda/</link>
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		<title>Ernest</title>
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This little boy is Ernest, the same name as my father.  When I told him this, he put his head on my chest and smiled, the first smile I saw from him.  He is an orphan, has been since he was 10, living on the streets in Butare, now back in a small hut in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2010/07/19/ernest/</link>
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		<title>Shoyge Primary and Secondary School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was an amazing moment, as some would say, a big deal.  Some of our group attended the 6 hour Dedication of Shogye Primary and Secondary school.  A family in our Church made a generous donation that built this school in an area of Rwanda in much need of such an institution, one that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2010/07/14/shoyge-primary-and-secondary-school/</link>
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		<title>First year Giving Hope Orphans, Butare, Rwanda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Donetta with her 10 year old sister and her invalid aunt.  Her mother died three years ago and she has been caring for the family since. She lives in a small hut on a very small plot of ground, barely surviving.  She grows a garden next to her hut about ten by ten [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2010/07/13/first-year-giving-hope-orphans-butare-rwanda/</link>
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		<title>The Giving Hope (ZOE) orphan families</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was amazingly eventful as we toured the 3rd year of the Giving Hope Program.  We have been a part of this through ZOE ministry already supporting the program up to this point.  Our goal is to adopt 1,000 more orphans who will begin the first year and walk with them to the third year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2010/07/12/the-giving-hope-zoe-orphan-families/</link>
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		<title>Church, 3 hours with Jesus in Butare, Rwanda</title>
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		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2010/07/11/church-3-hours-with-jesus-in-butare-rwanda/</link>
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		<title>Sunday in Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the difficult things on a trip like this is the time change, but the good think about that is we wake up early and see the sun rise. We arrived in Butare last night so just a few minutes ago I could look out the window.and see what this part of Rwanda looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2010/07/10/sunday-in-africa/</link>
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		<title>Butare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday was an amazing day.  We made the long drive to Butare where we will work directly with the giving hope program but along the way eventful things happened.  The photo is where we stopped to tour the school we will dedicate on Tuesday, a school that a family in our Church made possible.  It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2010/07/10/butare/</link>
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		<title>Rwanda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Epiphany met us there and we headed into the capital city of Kigali.  We are spending the night at the Iris guest house lodge, will visit the Genocide Museum in the morning, and then head out to connect with the orphans that we will be working with in the Giving Hope program the next 3 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2010/07/09/rwanda-2/</link>
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