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	<description>Looking for a life changing experience, an opportunity to change the world? You can provide the light and the spark needed to bring hope to the hopeless and make a difference. Discover the many ways you can get involved with Hope Ignited.</description>
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		<title>Looking back and moving forward&#8230;</title>
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Hope Ignited&#8217;s Executive Director, Chuck Jamison reflects on a decade of work in Conakry, Guinea.
I’ve been traveling to Conakry, Guinea annually for nearly a decade now.  We’ve hosted Pastor training conferences each year as a staple of the trip, but many times we have brought medicines, eyeglasses, bibles and other resources.  We’ve shipped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeignited.org/archives/683</link>
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		<title>The call to go&#8230;</title>
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As I prepare to make my 5th trip to Africa in 6 years, I am experiencing all of the same thoughts I have experienced before each trip:
  1.	Should I really be going?
  2.	Can I afford to take off that much time from work?
  3.	Can I really afford to spend the money on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeignited.org/archives/668</link>
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		<title>A look back at Summer Vacation and Graduation&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many Americans we are counting down the days until summer vacation.  Final exams will soon be over, graduation ceremonies will be conducted and many young men and women will enter into the next exciting phase of their lives.
I look back on those times fondly.  Thinking about both my High School and College [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeignited.org/archives/661</link>
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		<title>A New School Opens in Conakry, Guinea!</title>
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Knowledge is Power&#8230;
In September of 2010 a seed was planted in Conakry, Guinea.  That seed was a commitment of support to start a Christian school in Conakry, Guinea.  Guinea ranks #156 out of 169 countries listed on the Human Development Index.  This index compares a countries overall health, education and living conditions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeignited.org/archives/627</link>
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		<title>Going back to school!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received the following letter from our representatives in Guatemala, Oscar and Amy Garcia.  I hope it touches you as much as it did me.
Dear Bob,
As you remember, one of our Aldea dreams, were to be able to provide a place for the local kids to spend their time and to try to keep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeignited.org/archives/592</link>
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		<title>Do Mission Trips really make an impact?</title>
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I love Mission Trips. 
But I am often plagued by the question of whether we are really making an impact or are we just providing a needed distraction from the challenges of daily life for those in the countries that we visit?
Chuck Jamision, the Executive Director of Hope Ignited has brought teams to Guinea for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeignited.org/archives/568</link>
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		<title>Go on a Mission Trip?  What was I thinking?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Aaron Blumenkranz

I was pretty nervous about going on my first short-term missions trip. I had no idea what to expect and felt totally under qualified for “real” global outreach.  I am neither a pastor, a doctor, nor terribly handy. I was filled with doubt, “How would I be able to contribute?  How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeignited.org/archives/557</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.     Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.&#8221; -Margaret Mead</title>
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Over 30 volunteers came together in a herculean effort to fill a 40-foot container bound for Conakry, Guinea in West Africa on Friday, August 13th.  How did they do it?   Well, the group used the &#8220;old fashioned way&#8221; of technology and just picked up the telephone and asked for donations.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeignited.org/archives/523</link>
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		<title>Great things are happening in Aldea Las Anonas</title>
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First of all, the Men of the Rock Church in San Diego spent an amazing week of building.  They built a home for a local pastor as well as three new stoves for local widows and widowers.  The team of Mike Church, Perry Schacht, Rick Brennan, Ronnie DeLaCruz and Travis Wiley came to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hopeignited.org/archives/473</link>
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		<title>The return of the &#8220;Men of the Rock&#8221;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been exactly one year since San Diego&#8217;s Men of the Rock joined Hope Ignited on a home building mission trip to Guatemala.  During the 2009 trip, two new homes were constructed for local widows in the village of  Aldea Los Anonas.
This year the Men of the Rock from San Diego&#8217;s Rock Church [...]]]></description>
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