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		<title>We need each other</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not only do the poor need us, we need the poor to remind us what being human is about.  In the same way that the poor learn to identify themselves with their lack, the wealthy learn to identify themselves with their wealth.  It is in the meeting of the two that we can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarainbangkok.net/2010/02/22/we-need-each-other/</link>
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		<title>Pleased to dwell among us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the text and most of the visuals I used when I shared at church last Sunday.  It sounded like God really blessed people through it, so I thought I&#8217;d pass it on.
This morning I have the opportunity to share about my five years in Thailand, and the great challenge of condensing it into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarainbangkok.net/2010/01/17/pleased-to-dwell-among-us/</link>
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		<title>Signs of what&#8217;s to come</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is definitely a change in tone from my last few entries, but I couldn&#8217;t pass this up.
I was on the city of Pomona website this evening, looking for pictures I might be able to use in my presentation tomorrow, to illustrate the place that will soon be my home.  I visited the &#8220;New Resident [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarainbangkok.net/2010/01/16/signs-of-whats-to-come/</link>
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		<title>Videos of our work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With very brief appearances by me!  Don&#8217;t blink, you might miss them.     Several shots of Bangkok, though, and overall a good visual of what Servant Partners is all about.  This is why I&#8217;ve had such a crazy life for the past 5 years and why I&#8217;m not done yet.  Enjoy.
Servant Partners: Change [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarainbangkok.net/2010/01/10/videos-of-our-work/</link>
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		<title>And&#8230;. I&#8217;m back!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that my blog has been down for awhile.  After some technical difficulties, I&#8217;ve moved to a new server and imported the database, but not the files yet, so most of the pictures aren&#8217;t up.  And the look is different (though this might change again).  And there&#8217;s some weirdness with the text. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarainbangkok.net/2010/01/03/and-im-back/</link>
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		<title>Individualism and submission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, here&#8217;s one more reverse culture adjustment I&#8217;m making. Â There&#8217;s a sense of entitlement here to do whatever feels right, whatever one wants to do, at any given moment, with no need to weigh the effects of that action on others. Â Go with the gut, not with what others might think or feel or suffer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarainbangkok.net/2009/11/22/individualism-and-submission/</link>
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		<title>Re-entry this time around</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have at least a couple blog posts backlogged in my mind about things that happened in my last few months in Bangkok. Â But first I thought I&#8217;d jot down some of the random things swirling around in the front of my mind as I transition back to life in America.
This time, unlike my visit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarainbangkok.net/2009/11/16/re-entry-this-time-around/</link>
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		<title>What was your house like?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ People are often curious about what it was like for me, living in a Bangkok slum. Â So there are some new pictures up on my Photos page to illustrate. Â This is my house and surrounding area in Phothong, the slum I lived in the longest (February, &#8216;06- October &#8216;09). Â Before that I lived in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarainbangkok.net/2009/11/12/what-was-your-house-like/</link>
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		<title>Reflections from Bangkok, September 09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click on the image to read my last newsletter from Bangkok!  Some highlights:

Six new believers and a church planted in my slum!
The challenges of discipling the urban poor
Signs of fruit that will outlast my time here
Details about my return to the US
Prayer requests and pictures!


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		<link>http://sarainbangkok.net/2009/09/17/reflections-from-bangkok-september-09/</link>
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		<title>For Phothong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turning
Sometimes betrayal comes as a kiss
Sometimes a lie seems like what&#8217;s real
And we get so lost
We want to believe, to turn back
To what is truly holy
To the embrace we&#8217;ve once known
That seemed too good
And yet somehow not enough
Have mercy
Hear the groan and the plea
That gets stuck in our throat
And the prayer silenced by shame
Pry our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarainbangkok.net/2009/09/16/for-phothong/</link>
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