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		<title>Thanks Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan_W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Sunday at Sunny Hills we had our &#8220;family day&#8221; service, with the kids in the worship service the whole time. OUR KIDS ARE AWESOME! We love the way the are so eager to participate and join in with our church family. Thanks also to Allison for her leadership in our KIDLight program.
One of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This past Sunday at Sunny Hills we had our &#8220;family day&#8221; service, with the kids in the worship service the whole time. OUR KIDS ARE AWESOME! We love the way the are so eager to participate and join in with our church family. Thanks also to Allison for her leadership in our KIDLight program.</p>
<p>One of the unique aspects of Sunny Hills is that we do children&#8217;s Sunday school at the same time we do our adult worship service. So, families have a choice. Kids can join the adults, or have a Bible lesson for them &#8220;on their level,&#8221;</p>
<p>Have a great week!</p>
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		<title>Fifth Sunday FAMILY DAY this Sunday, Jan. 29th.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan_W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the cool things we do here at Sunny Hills is do a &#8220;family style&#8221; service each fifth Sunday. What does that mean?

KIDLight ages (grades K &#8211; 5) will be with the adults the whole time &#8230; usually our kids go to Sunday School while the adults are in the worship service.
Our middle schoolers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the cool things we do here at Sunny Hills is do a &#8220;family style&#8221; service each fifth Sunday. What does that mean?</p>
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<li>KIDLight ages (grades K &#8211; 5) will be with the adults the whole time &#8230; usually our kids go to Sunday School while the adults are in the worship service.</li>
<li>Our middle schoolers remain in the worship service the whole time &#8230; usually our middle school students leave after the singing to do a Bible study designed just for them.</li>
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<p>Because the service is packed with kids and middle school students we do some things a little different:</p>
<ul>
<li>The pastor explains in simple terms some of the worship elements kids may not understand.</li>
<li>Kids who want to are invited to sit on the front row.</li>
<li>Kids who want to are invited to help out with the sermon. The sermon is more &#8220;active&#8221; and &#8220;participant oriented&#8221; on fifth Sundays. We often play games together or act out parts of the Bible story. The idea is to get kids involved in the sermon so they don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s too boring or whatever.</li>
<li>Kids who want to are invited to help collect the offering.</li>
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<p>Fifth Sunday services are fun, even more fun than our regular services. Why not give Sunny Hills Church a try this weekend &#8230; it&#8217;ll be different than what you&#8217;re used to, probably, but that&#8217;s not a bad thing.</p>
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		<title>Need to Lose Some Weight?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan_W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, me too. And spend more time in the gym. Maybe read the Bible through this year.
Make some more money, that would be good. Begin that novel that&#8217;s been floating around in my head for a while.
If only I could actually make progress, you know, move past all the &#8220;want to&#8217;s&#8221; in my life and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, me too. And spend more time in the gym. Maybe read the Bible through this year.</p>
<p>Make some more money, that would be good. Begin that novel that&#8217;s been floating around in my head for a while.</p>
<p>If only I could actually make progress, you know, move past all the &#8220;want to&#8217;s&#8221; in my life and become even half of what I dream of becoming. Sometimes I feel so &#8220;stuck.&#8221; So busy with the routine of life that life is passing me by. Could somebody please help me discover REAL purpose and meaning in life.</p>
<p>Yes. Sunny Hills can help with that.</p>
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		<title>Teamwork</title>
		<link>http://sunnyhillschurch.com/725/teamwork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan_W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We get more done together. There&#8217;s no &#8220;I&#8221; in &#8220;TEAM.&#8221; The US Women&#8217;s Soccer team won the World Cup, working together to do something amazing!
Being a part of a church family means having people to partner with to accomplish big things. One thing we like about sports, and we talk about sports a lot at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We get more done together. There&#8217;s no &#8220;I&#8221; in &#8220;TEAM.&#8221; The US Women&#8217;s Soccer team won the World Cup, working together to do something amazing!</p>
<p>Being a part of a church family means having people to partner with to accomplish big things. One thing we like about sports, and we talk about sports a lot at Sunny Hills, is that it reminds us we have a coach (Jesus) and a playbook (the Bible) that helps us compete when life gets tough. We have team members that stand with us and help us get stronger.</p>
<p>Go team! Speaking of teams &#8230; we do have a church softball team in the spring, many of us enjoy running, hiking, playing racquetball, golf &#8230; we even had a turkey shoot in the fall. We enjoy competing and getting stronger together.</p>
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		<title>Lifetime FREE Donuts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan_W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right, free donuts for life at Sunny Hills! Each Sunday our &#8220;donuts team&#8221; brings donuts, muffins, juice, fruit, and other snacks to enjoy before the service. We perk coffee and have hot cocoa and tea available &#8230; all free of charge.
Sometimes, when you&#8217;re new to a place it helps to &#8220;hide&#8221; behind a coffee cup. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s right, free donuts for life at Sunny Hills! Each Sunday our &#8220;donuts team&#8221; brings donuts, muffins, juice, fruit, and other snacks to enjoy before the service. We perk coffee and have hot cocoa and tea available &#8230; all free of charge.</p>
<p>Sometimes, when you&#8217;re new to a place it helps to &#8220;hide&#8221; behind a coffee cup. So, feel free to come early (because, sadly, sometimes the donuts DO run out!) at 9:00 to get some snacks and meet some new friends.</p>
<p>Remember, we want our new friends to be comfortable and feel welcome. That&#8217;s why we NEVER introduce guests during the service or make people introduce yourself. You can come in, grab a donut, sit on the back row, and remain completely anonymous until you figure out we&#8217;re a safe place to investigate faith in Jesus Christ.</p>
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		<title>The Bible, God&#8217;s Word to us.</title>
		<link>http://sunnyhillschurch.com/689/the-bible-gods-word-to-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan_W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bible is the primary teaching tool that God uses in our lives to change us. At Sunny Hills Church we believe the Bible is true, and simply true. We teach and preach the basic truths of the Bible in a way that&#8217;s practical, simple, and easy-to-understand.
Many folks at Sunny Hills are new to the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Bible is the primary teaching tool that God uses in our lives to change us. At Sunny Hills Church we believe the Bible is true, and simply true. We teach and preach the basic truths of the Bible in a way that&#8217;s practical, simple, and easy-to-understand.</p>
<p>Many folks at Sunny Hills are new to the Christian faith and appreciate the beauty and joy that Jesus brings to life. Understanding the Bible helps us know Jesus better.</p>
<p>Want to go deeper in the Christian faith? We have in-depth Bible study each Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.</p>
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		<title>Music.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan_W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A big part of the modern worship experience is singing together on Sunday morning. Sunny Hills has a contemporary &#8220;praise and worship&#8221; style of music that has these qualities:

Upbeat, heavy guitar and drum lines.
Intimate lyrics addressed directly to God. We don&#8217;t sing &#8220;about&#8221; Him, we offer our singing as a gift of worship to Him.
Easy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A big part of the modern worship experience is singing together on Sunday morning. Sunny Hills has a contemporary &#8220;praise and worship&#8221; style of music that has these qualities:</p>
<ul>
<li>Upbeat, heavy guitar and drum lines.</li>
<li>Intimate lyrics addressed directly to God. We don&#8217;t sing &#8220;about&#8221; Him, we offer our singing as a gift of worship to Him.</li>
<li>Easy to sing arrangements. Key ideas repeat. If you don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; the song right away, you&#8217;ll get the hang of it quickly.</li>
<li>Projected lyrics instead of hymnal use. This frees us to sing without our heads being buried in a hymnal.</li>
</ul>
<p>Singing at Sunny Hills is OPTIONAL. Some people just don&#8217;t like to sing in public, no problem. You can stand with us and just enjoy the music and praise team&#8217;s leadership.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a few examples of songs we sing:  <a href="ftp://sunnyhil@sunnyhillschurch.com/www/songs/Amazing%20Grace%20(My%20Chains%20Are%20Gone)%20-%20DEMO.mp3">Amazing Grace, My Chains are Gone</a> and <a href="ftp://sunnyhil@sunnyhillschurch.com/www/songs/Your%20Grace%20Is%20Enough%20-%20DEMO.mp3">Your Grace is Enough</a>.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Website update live.</title>
		<link>http://sunnyhillschurch.com/679/website-update-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan_W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our church recently updated the website to a more modern look. The framework for the website is the WordPress platform, which provides a great deal of open source options to improve the content delivery. We are also using a theme from the &#8220;Elegant Themes&#8221; website, entitled &#8220;LeanBiz.&#8221;
What I like the most is the slider feature [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our church recently updated the website to a more modern look. The framework for the website is the WordPress platform, which provides a great deal of open source options to improve the content delivery. We are also using a theme from the <a title="elegantthemes.com" href="http://www.elegantthemes.com/">&#8220;Elegant Themes&#8221;</a> website, entitled &#8220;LeanBiz.&#8221;</p>
<p>What I like the most is the slider feature on the front page. It allows new visitors to get a quick sense of what our church is about. There are also links that help visitors discover how to become a christian. Our church membership class is also online.</p>
<p>The website passes the <a title="Sunny Hills Church validation test" href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=sunnyhillschurch.com&amp;charset=%28detect+automatically%29&amp;doctype=Inline&amp;group=0">WC3 validator</a> &#8230; which is a geeky thing I insisted upon.</p>
<p>Have any suggestions? Use our <a title="Contact us!" href="http://sunnyhillschurch.com/church-information/contact-us/">contact form</a> to give us feedback!</p>
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		<title>Casual, laid back. Fun?</title>
		<link>http://sunnyhillschurch.com/593/casual-laid-back-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan_W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attending church services should be something to look forward to &#8230; something fresh, invigorating, and comfortable. Sunny Hills has adopted a casual and contemporary style of worship.
Our personality is akin to blue jeans and sneakers. Comfortable. &#8220;Come as you are.&#8221; That kind of thing. When you attend a service here you can sit back, relax, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Attending church services should be something to look forward to &#8230; something fresh, invigorating, and comfortable. Sunny Hills has adopted a casual and contemporary style of worship.</p>
<p>Our personality is akin to blue jeans and sneakers. Comfortable. &#8220;Come as you are.&#8221; That kind of thing. When you attend a service here you can sit back, relax, and enjoy the service in a way that makes sense for you. Want another cup of coffee? Just get up, head out to the foyer, and refresh your cup. No problem. Be yourself &#8230; okay?</p>
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		<title>Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan_W</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding and growing in a loving church family is a key tool that God uses to bring us joy. Life is tough. We face trials and challenges as a routine matter of daily life. We need a group of folks who will stand with us, pray for us, and be a resource of hope in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finding and growing in a loving church family is a key tool that God uses to bring us joy. Life is tough. We face trials and challenges as a routine matter of daily life. We need a group of folks who will stand with us, pray for us, and be a resource of hope in times of need.</p>
<p>Sunny Hills Church is a collection of folk who know what it is to struggle &#8230; to search for significance, and discover the meaning and purpose of life. Jesus has called us together to be a reflection of His heart and character in our world.</p>
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