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		<title>New Dimensions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[9/11/11; Genesis 50: 15-21, Matt 18: 21-35 A sermon preached by Rev. Jane McBride, First Congregational Church of MN, UCC This week, I came across a striking story from the book The Pearl is in the Oyster by Marilyn Cram Donahue. A blogger summarizes it this way: “[the author] tells the story of a neighbor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstchurchmn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13865953&amp;post=1116&amp;subd=firstchurchmn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Kill &#8216;Em with Kindness&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 28, 2011; Matthew 16: 21-28, Romans 12: 9-21 A sermon preached by Stacey Gassman, First Congregational Church of MN, UCC Last week we heard Peter praised by Jesus. “Who do you say that I am?” That was the question Jesus asked of his disciples. “Who do you say that I am?” and Peter’s response? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstchurchmn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13865953&amp;post=1111&amp;subd=firstchurchmn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Living Question&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 8/21/11; Matthew 16: 13-20  A sermon preached by Rev. Jane McBride, First Congregational Church of MN, UCC The Celts – ancient peoples of the British Islands and Northern France—     centered their spirituality in mystery. Not distant, impersonal mystery, but mystery which pervades ordinary, everyday life. The Celts believed in “thin places”; literally, sacred locations, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstchurchmn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13865953&amp;post=1106&amp;subd=firstchurchmn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Impulses of Love</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 8/14/11; Matthew 15: 21-28 A sermon preached by Rev. Jane McBride, First Congregational Church of MN, UCC &#8220;Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong; we are weak, but he is strong.&#8221; To be honest, I didn’t like this classic Sunday school song much until [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstchurchmn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13865953&amp;post=1101&amp;subd=firstchurchmn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Come</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[8/7/11; Matthew 14: 22-33 A sermon preached by Rev. Jane McBride, First Congregational Church of MN, UCC &#8220;Artimeo Trinidad Mena was born October 20, 1977, in Guerrero, Mexico, where he grew up the oldest son of the Trinidad Mena family. In 1996, Artemio married and, later, had four children. He immigrated to Minnesota to provide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstchurchmn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13865953&amp;post=1095&amp;subd=firstchurchmn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bread for the Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sermon offered by our Guatemala travelers, July 31, 2011 Matthew 14: 13-21 In worship on July 31, Guatemala travelers shared their reflections as the sermon. A group of thirteen First Church members, including our current confirmation class, visited the San Lucas Mission (www.sanlucasmission.org) the week of July 15-22. This Catholic parish was founded by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstchurchmn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13865953&amp;post=1085&amp;subd=firstchurchmn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thursdays Blog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Tardes amigos! Today is our last day in Guetamela. We will be very sad to leave this beatiful country and all the friends that we have made, but also very happy to come home and see our family and friends. Today we worked at Women&#8217;s Center. Here are the jobs that people contributed to; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstchurchmn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13865953&amp;post=1083&amp;subd=firstchurchmn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A few more pictures</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Blog post for Wednesday, July 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello blog friends! This is Zach Dyar speaking.  Today we went to the farm/ garden and filled bags of dirt. In these small plastic bags, they will start coffee seedlings.  Then we came back and had lunch.  Next, we went back out to the farm and did ¨rebar ing¨.  (In other words, we made metal forms that will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstchurchmn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13865953&amp;post=1066&amp;subd=firstchurchmn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blog for Tuesday, July 19</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi!  ]This is Carl Dyar and Brigh Niccum reporting on today in Guatemala!  This was our second day of doing actual work for the Mission, but this was the first day that we worked all day on projects.  We spent the morning working on the new playground and soccer field at the Women&#8217;s Center, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstchurchmn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13865953&amp;post=1064&amp;subd=firstchurchmn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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