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		<title>Oak Fights Financial Abuse of Seniors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only member of the FCCSR family named for a tree has just won an important award:  Our very own Oak Dowling has just been named one of the county&#8217;s &#8220;Civic Center Volunteers of the Year&#8221; for his work with their F.A.S.T. program (Financial Abuse Specialist Team.) This county-sponsored program does truly important work. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Prayer for Boston</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends, Like many of you, I remain shaken by the traumatic events in Boston this week. As some of you know, I have run marathons. I have found the discipline and training to be a spiritual experience as well as the actual running of the event; the fellowship of other runners, the exhaustion, the insights, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Friends Visit Our Pulpit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For three weeks in April and May, Pastor Ken Barnes will be taking a break from his duties to attend a retreat and spend some family time out east. While he&#8217;s away, our pulpit will be filled by members of our extended church family: &#160; April 21 &#8211; Rev. Faune Towery. Faune was our Minister-in-Training [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picking a Pope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good friend is Jewish, and a secular one at that! The only reason she even observes the High Holy Days is because she thinks that somehow, her late father will know that she ate when she should have been fasting and went to work when she should have stayed home, and that he will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Wolves and our Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an old Cherokee legend, an angry boy talks to his grandfather about a friend who he felt had betrayed him. The grandfather responds: &#8220;Let me tell you a story&#8230; I  too, at times, have felt a great resentment for those who take from others with no remorse for what they do. I have struggled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating &#8220;Small&#8221; Churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have come to know you, I am impressed with the diversity I am discovering here. Also I am also impressed by your inclusive attitude. You know that all are important and essential to your spiritual health and institutional vitality. When I read this article on the history of small churches (the emphasis is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lent (and our Study Series)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we enter into the season of Lent. Most of you are familiar with its history and traditions, but here&#8217;s a brief refresher. Lent is the 40 day season prior to Easter. The season begins Ash Wednesday (Feb. 13 this year) and concludes with Easter (March 31.) The word “Lent” itself comes from lencten, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Kimberlee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 7 the FCCSR family was shocked and saddened to hear of the sudden death of Kimberlee Rasmusson. Kimberlee was a student at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and we were her &#8220;In care&#8221; church. We delighted in her joyful, gentle spirit, and we celebrated with her as she passed each milestone on the path [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Pastor&#8217;s Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spoffo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is where Pastor Ken Barnes shares his thoughts on our church life together. Think of it as a sort of on-line coffee hour. If you want to add a comment or ask a question, just click &#8220;read more&#8221; then scroll down to the comment box below the post and start typing.]]></description>
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		<title>Transitions Part 2:  &#8220;The Neutral Zone&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In other times and places the person in transition left the village and went out into an unfamiliar stretch of forest or desert. There the person would remain for a time, removed from the old connections, bereft of the old identities, and stripped of the old reality. This was a time ‘between dreams’ in which the old chaos from the beginnings welled [...]]]></description>
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