<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5743524109244269645</id><updated>2009-02-21T03:15:20.488-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hope Talents</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hopetalents.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5743524109244269645/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hopetalents.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Robbie de Viliers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01552430549332437259</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5743524109244269645.post-4599164130779518645</id><published>2008-03-25T09:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-25T10:05:46.636-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Use your talents!</title><content type='html'>On Sunday, March 9, 2008 Pastor Dave Gish had a sermon about “Investing in God”, in the series “Use it Wisely” The sermon centered around Jesus’ parable of the three servants that were given talents and how they used them. To drive the point home, Pastor Dave challenged the congregation to invest in God’s work to support Hanna’s Orphanage in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. The amount we are going to raise is $25,000 for an apartment for some of the orphans. What made the challenge unique, was the fact that Hope Church handed out money to the congregation - $10, $20 or $50 and each person was asked to go multiply what was given to them. This blog serves to show and encourage all of us in how we invest our talents for the Lord!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;We encourage everyone to add their ideas in to spur others on. Please use this blog to advertise what you are doing in case you are looking for help or customers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please click on the "Comments" line below to read comments, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;to add your comment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5743524109244269645-4599164130779518645?l=hopetalents.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hopetalents.blogspot.com/feeds/4599164130779518645/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5743524109244269645&amp;postID=4599164130779518645' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5743524109244269645/posts/default/4599164130779518645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5743524109244269645/posts/default/4599164130779518645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hopetalents.blogspot.com/2008/03/use-your-talents.html' title='Use your talents!'/><author><name>Robbie de Viliers</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01552430549332437259</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06240864921716527913'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>13</thr:total></entry></feed>