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	<description>The Association of Ordinands and Candidates for Ministry</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 10:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Money Matters 2008</title>
		<link>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/money-matters-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/money-matters-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 13:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Funding Training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Mark Hodge (Ministry Division Grants)

This article sets out the main features of current student financing.  AOCM has been involved in many issues on behalf of ordinands, including developments in student finance.  We recognise that readers are from a diversity of financial positions.  Some will have previously enjoyed a comfortable salary and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Website</title>
		<link>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/welcome/</link>
		<comments>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/welcome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 07:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to our new website.  We hope you find it useful.  Let us know what you think by using our contact form and sending us an email.

We are still in the process of adding our archive to the site, and so soon this site should be even more useful for you as you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying to a Trust</title>
		<link>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/applying-to-a-trust/</link>
		<comments>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/applying-to-a-trust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Styles is the Chair of AOCM

Training for ministry can be a difficult time financially.  Fear not, there are many people who want to help.  Don&#8217;t try and go it alone.  Here are some tips.
Principles
Before acting, it&#8217;s worth keeping some big principles in mind.
Keep your focus
Money can be a real issue, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News from Colleges and Courses</title>
		<link>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/news-april-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/news-april-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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From 19th April 2008, AOCM Conference

EMMTC
New principal changing it into a theology course rather than theology and ministry. Lots of upheaval as a result – hopefully it will settle down soon. Increasing involvement with Regional Training Partnership. Numbers dropping at the moment, and financial situation looking complex. Pray for strength to cope with the changes.
St [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 2008 Conference</title>
		<link>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/agenda-april-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/agenda-april-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next AOCM conference will be at The College of the Resurrection, Mirfield on Saturday 19th April.

If you have anything you want brought up at the meeting, please speak to you AOCM rep soon.
Reps, please note: Item 3 is News from Courses and Colleges, this is an important part of sharing fellowship together.  If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News from Training Institutions</title>
		<link>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/news-january-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/news-january-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 26th January 2008, AOCM Conference

Wilson Carlile (Church Army)
The Church Army are running a pilot training scheme in 2008 whereby candidates learn alongside an experienced evangelist as they study, moving away from the model of residential training.
The students are sad that their new director of training has left, seemingly by mutual consent and in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choice of pathways in initial ministerial training</title>
		<link>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/choice-of-pathways-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/choice-of-pathways-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[hind report]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[pioneer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This version is from 8th November 2007

A. User guide
Following the House of Bishops&#8217; general approval of the report on the Choice of Pathways in January 2006 and, subject to final approval by the House in January 2007, the following document will come in to force for candidates entering ordination training from September 2008.
Formation for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running the Race: Playing the Long Game in Ministry</title>
		<link>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/running-the-race/</link>
		<comments>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/running-the-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[relationship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Rt Revd Mike Hill is the Bishop of Bristol.

I have fought the good fight.  I have finished the race.  I have kept the faith.  Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness&#8230; 2 Timothy 4:7-8a
Any distance runner will tell you that completing the race depends on a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Going Gets Tough</title>
		<link>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/when-the-going-gets-tough/</link>
		<comments>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/when-the-going-gets-tough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[following Christ]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[struggle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Venerable Donald Allister is the Archdeacon of Chester

Note: This is a very personal article, quite deliberately. It would be all too easy to list the points that might be made, almost like a prescription for what to do when life is hard. But we are all very different as people and there is no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Developments in Ministerial Training</title>
		<link>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/new-developments-in-ministerial-training/</link>
		<comments>http://aocm.org.uk/blog/new-developments-in-ministerial-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr David Way is Theological Education Secretary to the Ministry Division of the Archbishops&#8217; Council

Ordinands will be well aware of the fast changing training scene of which they are a crucial part. You yourselves are often faced with interesting choices in training, whether that is in terms of full or part-time pathways, modules to be [...]]]></description>
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