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		<title>Readers Pay Tribute to Jamie Buckingham</title>
		<description>Discuss Readers Pay Tribute to Jamie Buckingham</description>
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			<title>Janice Howlett says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I never met Jamie but I read his books and turned to the last word as soon as Charisma arrived, I felt like I knew him and I trusted him, we all grieved with his family and friends, I still turn to the last page and smile]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Janice Howlett</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Jim Gaffney says:</title>
			<link>http://ministrytodaymag.com/index.php/ministry-news/19446-readers-pay-tribute-to-jamie-buckingham#comment-2920</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As I reflect back over the 20 years since his death I realize now at age 57, the same age Jamie was in 1992 when he graduated to heaven that I am filled with gratitude for my years of mentoring under his inspiring tutelege. The Holy Spirit flowed through Jamie Buckingham into my life during our years together and by God's grace continues to change lives. "No one cares how much you know, till they know how much you care' is my favorite Jamieism.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jim Gaffney</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Jim Gaffney says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jamie taught me to always share stories that first had to be lived through my life, so as to be authentic and to judge my teachings by whether people walked away with more questions about how God works than answers. "Most preach to people and give answers to questions that they had never asked, but if I left my congregation seeking God in a new way, Jesus would provide them with answers." Within months of Jamie's death I left the Tab to answer a call to a new church in California where I have faithfully taught hundreds following his model of provocative stroytelling. Now after twenty-five years of pastoral ministry I am back in school training to be a marriage and family therapist hoping to share Jamie's style of authentic relational ministry till God takes me home.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jim Gaffney</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Jim Gaffney says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Being on staff of the Tab allowed me to experience Jamie in many personal ways. He became my personal encouager in ministry and soon there were traffic jams every Tuesday night at the church. In 1988 Jamie ordained me as a minister during a church service in his true storytelling style while comparing my congregation to a pack of limping blind in one eye dogs, that often mistook carpet for grass and answered to the name of "Lucky." He stated that Jesus always had a heart for broken people but he was glad that he could now send the worst of the litter in my direction. In the next four years I visited Israel with Jamie and was an eyewitness to some of his greatest triumphs as well as his fight against cancer. What a joy to "one of Jamie's young bucks" following his unique footsteeps of ministry.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jim Gaffney</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Jim Gaffney says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I had recently begun to hold a support group at the Tab for those recovering from drug and alcohol issues. I began to cry since 10 years earlier I had received a prophecy that God would use me in ministry, but I had not told others. Within 30 days Jamie arranged for me to enter a ministry training program South of Melbourne with his friend Mickey Evans and asked me to share my plans with the church for the purpose of raising family financial support for the 2 years in training. He did however require that every Tuesday night I continue to hold the support groups in Melbourne. The ministry training was exceptional and I learned to "lead others from a position of weakness in my life, rather than strength for my honesty and humility would draw hurting people that normally kept others at a distance. When my two years were up I returned to Melbourne and was put on Jamie's pastoral staff .]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jim Gaffney</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Jim Gaffney says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I can fondly remember the Sunday morning that Jamie and his encouragement propeled me into ministry. My family attended the Tab from 1984 to 1992. I wqs helping to lead a weekly home group and had been part of the church for maybe 2 years when I came forward for prayer during a service. Jamie came to pray for me, recognized me, called me by name and asked how he could pray. I told him that I was going through a job transition in my pharmacy career but the hospital that hired me in Melbourne, Fl had just placed a hiring freeze and ws unable to complete the final steps for my employment. I had trained my replacement at my current hospital and I was unsure of what to do. Jamie looked at me in the eye and asked, "when was I going to take seriously my calling as a shepherd?" I was dumbfounded and he read my face continuing with, "it is always easy to spot a man called to be a shepherd, for they always have sheep behind them watching their every move, and Had I looked behind me lately?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jim Gaffney</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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