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		<title>Turning Point Videos Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the work and contributions of Steve Sturges and others at Visual Image, the following two videos are available which provide an overview of our mission at work at Turning Point Ministries. These videos are also linked at the top of our website. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay updated on our work!
Longer Version (7 minutes)

Shorter Version (4 minutes)

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		<link>http://turningpointoklahoma.org/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Oklahoma City Mayor’s panel gives awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turning Point Ministries was featured in the October 30, 2009 NewsOK article, &#8220;Oklahoma City Mayor’s panel gives awards.&#8221;

The Oklahoma City Mayor’s Committee on Disability Concerns gave awards Thursday to outstanding Oklahomans with disabilities and their advocates.
The committee’s purpose is to erase architectural, social and attitudinal barriers to people with disabilities.
Todd Craighead won the George B. Lewis Advocacy Award.
Tinker Air Force Base was named Employer of the Year.
The Public Personnel Employee Award went to Michael O’Brien, Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services.
Other honors included Media Public Service Award to Susan Simpson, The ...]]></description>
		<link>http://turningpointoklahoma.org/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Golfers tee up to fund Edmond house project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turning Point Ministries was featured in the Daily Oklahoman on June 23, 2009, in Diana Baldwin&#8217;s article, &#8220;Golfers tee up to fund Edmond house project.&#8221;
EDMOND — Turning Point Ministries’ golf tournament raised enough money to fund one of 13 low-cost homes to be built in Edmond.
Bob Turner, president of Turning Point Ministries, said a final figure is not in from the golf tournament the group sponsored Friday, but preliminary results are promising.
&#8220;We want to raise $25,000 for each of the 13 houses,” Turner said. &#8221;I think we have taken care of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://turningpointoklahoma.org/?p=3</link>
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		<title>Housing group targets single mothers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turning Point Ministries was featured in The Edmond Sun on May 27, 2009, in Mark Schlachtenhaufen&#8217;s article, &#8220;Housing group targets single mothers.&#8221;
EDMOND — Connecting eligible buyers with affordable housing in Edmond is the goal of a new organization.
Turning Point Ministries is a nonprofit housing organization established to help individuals living in inferior housing situations find affordable homes, said Bob Turner, a member of the organization’s board of directors.
Turner said the ministry’s primary target audience is single mothers who would like to own a home in Edmond but are priced out ...]]></description>
		<link>http://turningpointoklahoma.org/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Edmond homes may get energy upgrades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turning Point Ministries was featured in the Daily Oklahoman on May 23, 2009, in Diana Baldwin&#8217;s article, &#8220;Edmond homes may get energy upgrades: Project Expands To Nearby Properties.&#8221;
EDMOND — Rental property adjacent to Legacy Station, a low-cost home project near downtown Edmond, may get $50,000 in energy improvements compliments of federal stimulus money.
Shannon Entz, Edmond’s Community Development Block Grant coordinator, said about 10 homes adjacent to the new Legacy Station homes have been identified for rehabilitation or weatherization improvements.

Edmond is expected to receive two federal stimulus grants totaling $225,567. City ...]]></description>
		<link>http://turningpointoklahoma.org/?p=15</link>
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		<title>Edmond group helps make room for low-cost homes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turning Point Ministries was featured in the Daily Oklahoman on May 16, 2009, in Diana Baldwin&#8217;s article, &#8220;Edmond group helps make room for low-cost homes.&#8221;
EDMOND — An old, rundown area of Edmond is changing.
Two tiny houses, in need of serious repair, are coming down as a part of plans to build Legacy Station, a housing addition with 13 new, low-cost homes, said Bob Turner, president of Turning Point Ministries.
The new homes, to be built between Edwards and Thatcher and west of Broadway, are possible through a partnership with the city ...]]></description>
		<link>http://turningpointoklahoma.org/?p=9</link>
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		<title>Edmond to get energy grant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turning Point Ministries was featured in the Daily Oklahoman on May 6, 2009, in Diana Baldwin&#8217;s article, &#8220;Edmond to get energy grant.&#8221;
EDMOND — Edmond is expected to receive $3.9 million in federal stimulus money and city officials haven’t stopped looking for other ways to get more.
The largest chunk, $2.35 million, will go to repair six roads in the city while another $600,000 is being used to purchase eight new buses for the city’s new transportation system.
Shannon Entz, the Community Development Block Grant coordinator, said, &#8220;This money will help a lot ...]]></description>
		<link>http://turningpointoklahoma.org/?p=17</link>
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		<title>Edmond Council paving way for Habitat homes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turning Point Ministries was featured in the Daily Oklahoman on February 23, 2009, in Diana Baldwin&#8217;s article, &#8220;Edmond Council paving way for Habitat homes.&#8221;
EDMOND — Edmond may be getting some low-cost housing because of a public-private partnership and some additional federal money coming to Oklahoma.
Habitat for Humanity and Turning Point Ministries want to team up with the city of Edmond to build 13 new homes in an area just west of Broadway Avenue, between Thatcher and Edward streets.

City officials plan to use $116,986 in federal money that is available to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://turningpointoklahoma.org/?p=20</link>
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		<title>Edmond housing ministry preps for second build</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turning Point Ministries was featured in The Edmond Sun on January 12, 2009, in Mark Schlachtenhaufen&#8217;s article, &#8220;Edmond housing ministry preps for second build.&#8221;
EDMOND — For Ginny Kay Moore, getting around in her current Edmond home is challenging.
Since Moore was born she has been in a wheelchair due to spina bifida, which left her paralyzed from the waist down. Spina bifida is a birth defect that involves the incomplete development of the spinal cord or its coverings.

She cannot turn around in her wheelchair inside the narrow bathrooms.
In the kitchen, the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://turningpointoklahoma.org/?p=28</link>
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