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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://worldventure.com/Community/utility/FeedStylesheets/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Bo &amp;amp; Michele Columbine</title><subtitle type="html" /><id>http://worldventure.com/Community/blogs/columbine/atom.aspx</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://worldventure.com/Community/blogs/columbine/default.aspx" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://worldventure.com/Community/blogs/columbine/atom.aspx" /><generator uri="http://communityserver.org" version="3.0.20510.895">Community Server</generator><updated>2006-08-08T22:43:00Z</updated><entry><title>SPLICE is going well</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://worldventure.com/Community/blogs/columbine/archive/2006/08/15/681.aspx" /><id>http://worldventure.com/Community/blogs/columbine/archive/2006/08/15/681.aspx</id><published>2006-08-15T23:16:00Z</published><updated>2006-08-15T23:16:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;The Columbines are now about half way through the SPLICE program at MTI.&amp;nbsp; In the last week and a half we have learned so much about God and ourselves.&amp;nbsp; One of thing that we were reminded of is that ministry is about our love one for another.&amp;nbsp; If we do not love our team mates then Christ's love will not be demonstrated to those we will be going to.&amp;nbsp; We also looked at God and His faithfulness and how He may not be safe but He is faithful and good.&amp;nbsp; This week we have begun to work on conflict resolution.&amp;nbsp; This has really stretched us and helped us to understand why we react the way we do and how we are perceived by others.&amp;nbsp; We also looked at some of our&amp;nbsp;weaknesses and the steps we can take to begin working on these.&amp;nbsp; We are so thankful for that God has permitted us to partake in these preparations before going to the field.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://worldventure.com/Community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=681" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Columbine</name><uri>http://worldventure.com/Community/members/Columbine.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>PILAT is under the belt for us.</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://worldventure.com/Community/blogs/columbine/archive/2006/08/08/671.aspx" /><id>http://worldventure.com/Community/blogs/columbine/archive/2006/08/08/671.aspx</id><published>2006-08-09T02:43:00Z</published><updated>2006-08-09T02:43:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;Michele and I have been so blessed by the last two weeks of PILAT.&amp;nbsp; PILAT stands for Program In Language Acquisition Techniques.&amp;nbsp; It is just that, techniques on how to learn a language.&amp;nbsp; We came not sure we were going to be able to learn the needed languages and have been encouraged to know that we can because we already have.&amp;nbsp; We all have learned at least one language that being our mother tongue.&amp;nbsp; So with these techniques and the empowerment of God we now feel that this is something we can do.&amp;nbsp; It is going to be hard and we will need a lot of encouragement and prayer but it will happen.&amp;nbsp; Thanks so much for standing with us in this.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://worldventure.com/Community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=671" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Columbine</name><uri>http://worldventure.com/Community/members/Columbine.aspx</uri></author></entry></feed>