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TAPE ST RYT h e F i r s t B a p t i s t C h u r c h o f R e d l a n d s
W o v e n T o g e t h e r I n L o v e : C o l o s s i a n s 2 : 2
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As a boy growing up in Sunday School at a Baptist church, I was
told Baptists don't do Lent. I was never told why but I suspect it was an anti-Catholic thing. The attitude, "Whatever they do, we don't do," is such an unhealthy way to decide how we practice our faith. In recent years I have begun to feel that the Lenten season is very important in preparing us for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter, the most important events in the Christian church. We spend so much time preparing for other events in our lives so why not spend some concerted preparation time in what we call the Lenten season? But the question is: "How do we prepare?" A story I read gave me some new insight. A teacher announced to her adult Sunday School class that it had dawned on her that in all the years she had been teaching the class, the class had never discussed Lent. The teacher then gave a background on the history of Lent and followed it with a question, "What do you think about Lent?" One member of the class said: "Mostly, I think Lent is a time of giving up something, making some kind of sacrifice." Another said, "I think Lent is about repentance. It is a time to rethink your life and then rededicate your life to doing God's will."
Others in the class agreed that Lent is about repentance and said that they could do better in living their lives for the Lord and that Lent helped them think about that. The teacher then asked, "What is true repentance?" A member of the class replied: "It is being sorry for what you have done wrong and promising to change." The teacher let the discussion go on for several minutes. Then she said, “Well I disagree totally about your thinking. I have been repenting all of my life but it has never done me any good. Each year we say we are sorry for our sins and promise we can and will do better but most of us don't do better.” She went on, "It seems to me my promises are just like straw in the wind. This year I am not going to promise that. Instead I am going to confess to the Lord that I can't do better and I am going to tell the Lord, I don't have the power to change. I am then going to ask the Lord for His grace and strength to make me into what He wants me to be. In other words I am going to ask the Lord to do for me what I can't do for myself. True repentance means to me - to turn away from leading my life under my power and turning it over to the power of God." (This story is from “Lectionary Tales” by Richard Jensen.)
“True repentance
means to turn away from leading my
life under my power and turn it over to the power of God.”
Lent
Richard
The apostle in writing to the churches of Asia Minor as recorded in the book of Ephesians said, "I bow my knee before the Father … that He would grant according to his riches in glory, to be strengthened with power through the Spirit in the inner man." So often we try to change ourselves which only leads to frustration and a defeatist attitude instead of asking God to help us by His grace. May this Lenten season help us to focus on God's grace.
Pastor Richard
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Reverend Richard BurkeInterim Pastor
Deena Barwick, Ph.D. Associate Pastor of Family Ministries
Jared SumnersYouth Director
Richard W. SteffenMinister of Music
Eric GoddardMusic Director
Linda Gentile Organist
Angel FlorenceOffice Manager/Bookkeeper
Amanda WarnerCommunications Administrator
Dennis ChenevertBuildings/Grounds
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Worldwide Prayer Concerns: West Africa, Egypt and Mexico
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Contents and Staff Box
Upcoming Service Opportunities
The March Calendar
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A Few Words from Pastor Deena: Finding Healing Through Stories and Community
A Message from Pastor Richard: The Grace of Lent
Family Time Beyond Facebook
Pastoral Search Committee Update: We’re Culling and Courting
Missions Commission Update: How Will We Move Forward In Missions?
Small Groups Launch New Series: Agape Sunday Class & Pastor’s Bible Study
Hope For Youth: Fighting Teen Homelessness With Unconditional Love
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A few words from Pastor DeenaFinding healing through stories and community
I love to hear people’s stories. “How did you get here? Where
have you been? What have been your struggles, your joys, your big milestone events?” Stories make up who we are as individuals, as a piece of a family, as a part of a community and our connection to God. Some stories get embellished more every time they are told. Some stay the same. Some are never too old to hear over and over again. I am reminded of the story, from Mark 5, of the bleeding woman who told Jesus her story of 12 years of suffering. He listened to every word while a rush of “hurried-ness” was going on around him. When she was done with her story, Jesus said to her: “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” This was a personal response from Jesus: “daughter.” All of the stories we share are personal and sometimes when we share them, we receive some healing through advice or a prayer, or we are just able to let some pent-up emotions go. Stories help us to communicate difficulties, pain, joy, celebrations, and often to provide
advice to another person. That is what happened at the “Foodies” support group. We first listened to each other’s story about particular difficulties with different foods, allergies, diets, some life changes and trying to figure out “just what can I eat?”
There were samples of gluten-free cookies and waffles to taste and a couple of recipes, too. Sitting around a table and just conversing about different problems, with others offering solutions, was interesting, a bit of fun and most importantly, a good reminder that we are not in this alone. Are there others who are
Winter Camp
on special diets, perhaps even with weird food and willing to share what they have learned through a process of trial and error? Perhaps you are trying to lose weight and need an accountability partner; perhaps you have allergies and need to figure out some new and exciting foods to eat; or perhaps you have been diagnosed with a food-related disease and need more information. We were meeting on the third Monday of the month. As there hasn’t been much interest in this support group, we decided at our last meeting to have periodic meetings as the need presented itself. If you are interested in knowing something specific about food, allergies, or disease diagnosis, please let me know. If there are a number of people interested in specific food needs, we will schedule a group time to meet. When that meeting is scheduled, please come and join the conversation. Share your story. Hear others’ stories. Bringing something to share is optional! -Pastor Deena Barwick
From March 13 to 15, the youth will be off at
at Camp Cedar Crest in Running Springs, CA. Please
keep the youth and adult supervisors in your prayers.
Photo courtesy of campcedarcrest.org
“All of the stories we share are personal and
sometimes when we share them, we receive some healing through advice
or a prayer, or we are just able to let some pent-up
emotions go.”
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How do we parent in the age of technology?
That’s one of the questions Jana Boyd, an MFT over at the Christian Counseling Service, is asked most frequently. It’s also the question driving a new series in Thursday night’s Parents Class. “Nobody’s had to parent under these circumstances and it seems like we’re all kind of feeling our way without a lot of examples,” Jana said. A friend recommended a book to Jana called “Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World” by Arlene Pellicane and Dr. Gary Chapman, author of “The 5 Love Languages.” What struck her is its focus on teaching kids to be more relational, rather than just trying to get kids to spend less time using media. “A lot of times we blame technology for the frustrations we’re having as parents when, really, we have to take responsibility as parents for what we’re modeling,” Jana said.
“Are we teaching our kids to be good social people?” On Thursday, Feb. 5, Jana started off the series which will continue through May. Each week the group will read two chapters from “Growing Up Social” and then come to class to discuss the contents. Jana will facilitate the first Thursday of the month, Kari Hidalgo an MFT intern at CCS will facilitate the third Thursday, and Bill Roozeboom a pastoral counselor at CCS will facilitate the fourth. So far people in the class have connected well with the topic as most have wrestled to some degree with how much of a role technology should play in their family. Jana hopes parents will get some clarity on what boundaries to set and how technology may be uniquely affecting their children. “I have three kids and
technology is more of a problem for one of my kids just because of their personalities,” Jana said. “There’s not one blanket rule for everybody; you have to be attuned to each child.” Jana emphasizes that it’s not necessarily about telling kids to stop using electronics, but it’s about teaching them how to use electronics in a smart way where it’s not consuming their life. “We want to provide an opportunity for parents to decide for themselves what will work for their family,” Jana said. Having worked with First Baptist parents before, Jana is eager to journey with them again and hear what insights they have to offer. To join in on the discussion, come to the Parents Class every Thursday at 6:45 p.m. in David’s Corner.
-Amanda Warner
Photos courtesy of 5lovelanguages.com
Family Time Beyond Facebook
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PASTORAL SEARCH COMMITTEE UPDATE
Our search committee has been deeply impressed and even
inspired by the candidates under consideration. With the modern tools of communication available to us, surely we have collected and shared more information with greater flexibility than any other search conducted in the history of our church. In researching the candidates we’ve dissected many, many resumes, cover letters, and pastoral profiles; we’ve read, listened to, and watched countless sermons; we’ve read candidates’ articles, dissertations, devotionals, newsletters, emails, blogs, and we’ve even watched panel discussions, lectures, and special talks posted on YouTube. It is safe to say that we have gotten to know the candidates very well and as we have done so, each has demonstrated unique qualities and particular strengths. However, the process continues in ever greater diversity as we seek to address gaps in our knowledge and to better understand the many questions and possibilities each individual candidate presents. We have, as mentioned before, engaged each one of a group of eight candidates in a wonderfully informative interview via Skype (essentially a conference call with video included). We continue to prayerfully discern how to further engage these candidates, being mindful that we continue to be in a process of both culling and courting. Meanwhile, it is important to note that the wide nets we cast continue to bring exciting new candidates to our attention and that
we continue to encounter and be open to new faces, ideas, and possibilities even as we sharpen our focus and attention on the faces we’ve come to know well. Many different activities will occupy our time in the coming months. We’ll be scheduling in-depth interviews, watching more sermons, and having Bible studies led by the more advanced candidates (again, via Skype), and we’ll continue reading, watching, and listening to a wide variety of things as we continue to evaluate newer ones. Here is our continuing promise to you—as we engage these wonderful candidates, we have in our hearts and minds not only our own preferences and judgments, but the faces of the many in our church community who have names we know—who are friends we value—and who have voiced concerns and wishes that we share. Know that we’ll take advantage of our interactions with the candidates to engage them further in frank and extended give and take. As we continue to move forward, we are mindful that our work will be judged not for our efforts or the time we’ve spent over the past year, but for how, in the final analysis, the search turns out. We continue to be committed to getting it right, not getting it done. We strive to temper our perseverance with patience, our excitement with insight, and our caution with courage, seeking the wisdom, strength, and guidance only to be found in the Spirit. Would you keep our efforts and our church in your prayers?
-The Pastoral Search Committee
HELP CREATE EASTER BASKETSPlease bring in the following items by Sunday, March 22. We will then take them over to Family Service Association
for their Easter basket distribution.
1.5 pound bags of flour5 pound bags of sugar
bags of potatoesboxes of instant potatoes
boxes of dry milkbottles of cooking oil
cake mixapplesauce
applesoranges
$10 Stater Bros gift cardscanned fruitcanned soup
disposable roasting pansmoney to purchase other items
dish towelscandles
decorationschildren’s bookscoloring books
markerscrayonspencils
healthy snacks
Sponsored by the Local Outreach Commission
We’re Culling and Courting
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West Africa - Ebola
Mexico - Deborah’s House
Worldwide Prayer Concerns
If you have information to share about the persecuted church or news from the mission field, please share it with Jonathan Peske.
“But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and persecution, and
sometimes being partners with those so treated.” –Hebrews 10:32-33
Egypt & Libya - Islamic State
-Jonathan Peske
Please continue to pray for those in West Africa who have been affected by the Ebola virus. Over 9,000 people have died during the outbreak. While the rate of new infections has dropped dramatically, Ebola continues to spread through the nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. There are many teams of doctors and health workers who are assisting in the fight against this disease and many of them are people motivated by their Christian faith. In mid-February, government leaders met at a summit and renewed their commitment to fight the disease, with the goal of eradicating it by mid-April. Pray that this dark chapter may soon come to a close.
The Islamic State recently released a video showing the beheading of about 20 men in Libya. The men, who were Coptic Christians from Egypt working as day laborers in neighboring Libya, had been abducted in the middle of the night from their housing complex. The men are shown walking along a beach before their execution. In the video, the executioners vow further vengeance and the camera does not cut away during the actual act. At the end, the camera shows the waves red with blood. Pray that the horrific violence perpetrated by the Islamic State would be stopped. Pray for the families of those mourning loved ones killed by the Islamic State.
Pray for Ray and Adalia Schellinger-Gutiérrez and their Deborah’s House ministry in Tijuana. They serve as a shelter for women and children fleeing domestic abuse. Currently there are eight women and 18 children living at Deborah’s House. The women come in for a period of time as they get on their feet and then eventually move out on their own. At the beginning, it is hard for them to get along with one another, but as time goes by, they forge strong friendships with one another that remain after they move on. Pray for funding for this important ministry, which has an annual budget of about $60,000. In the eight years that Deborah’s House has been in operation, over 150 people have come through the program. Praise God that these women can find hope and a new beginning.
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MISSIONS COMMISSION UPDATE
Last October, the National and World Missions Commission invited the congregation to join us for a special luncheon discernment event, titled “Responding to the Call,” to help us discern our priorities and concerns
for our missions efforts. Through this discernment process we were not so much trying to come up with answers and develop an action plan, but rather to explore what gives life to our mission work, what questions we should be asking, what challenges we anticipate, and what visions for our mission efforts we share. Below we’ve sketched some of the salient themes and questions that arose in the discernment process and that our commission will seek to take up as we move forward in our ministry of mission together. We invite you to consider how God is working in our midst, calling us to mission and how we can best respond to that call.
Joining in on short-term
mission workActively participating in
mission work inspires a passion for and
commitment to missions unlike anything else.
While most of us will not have the opportunity to serve as long-term missionaries, many of us can serve through
short-term mission work opportunities. While
short-term mission work requires significant
investments in time, effort, commitment, and financial
resources, it is vital that we continue to participate
in short-term mission work. International
Ministries, our American Baptist international
missions organization, provides a variety of
short-term opportunities to participate in ongoing mission efforts around the world, and our own
church regularly conducts short-term mission work of our own in Nicaragua and Mexico. How can we
improve our awareness of and access to short-term mission opportunities?
Engaging youth and children in mission work
Participation in mission efforts helps to build a firm
foundation upon which a lifetime of faith can be built. In an increasingly busy and interconnected world, participation in
mission efforts can help our young people to
experience the relevance and immediacy of our
faith as we meaningfully connect with others in our own congregation
and around the world as we serve as the hands
and feet of Christ through mission. How can we help our children and youth to
grow in their faith through mission? Our children,
youth, and young adults seem to be increasingly busy and committed as their educational and
career trajectories become ever more competitive
with ever greater demands on their time. How do we foster leadership within
our own congregation and encourage our youth and
young adults to be open to hearing God’s call?
Considering a changing
framework for funding missionsInternational Ministries
has moved from a unified funding model to an
individual model through which missionaries are
responsible for raising the funds necessary to support
their mission work. This model has resulted in a significant increase in
total giving to American Baptist mission efforts. Should our traditional
fixed commitment model of support change in
response to the significant changes in how that
support is used? How do we balance choosing
to support individual missionaries with our desire to support all of our American Baptist
missionaries?
-Nathan Jones
Connecting with missionaries and
their storiesWe are always blessed by the visits we receive from
our missionaries. Their stories are inspiring and
help us to see the workings of the Lord in our world
today. With the advances in communication all
around us, we are now able to connect with our missionaries in new and easier ways, but easier
doesn’t necessarily mean better. In addition, not everyone has access to
new communication tools, and those who do are often not aware of the opportunities available for connecting with our
missionaries. Meanwhile, the fundraising
responsibilities now placed on missionaries are changing the ways that they connect with congregations and how congregations connect with them. How can we improve our connection and communication with
our missionaries?
How will we move forward in missions?
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IP Small Groups Launch New SeriesCreating the Redlands
nonprofit, YouthHope, was the scariest thing founder Heidi Mayer has ever done. But, it was what God wanted her to do. “It’s not my program, it’s His; it’s God’s program,” Heidi said. “It’s an exciting thing to be serving God exactly where He wants me to be.” Every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, YouthHope opens its doors from 3-6 p.m. and up to 70 teens will show up looking
for a meal, for basic necessities like bus passes or grocery cards, and looking for the care and attention each YouthHope volunteer offers freely. On meal nights, YouthHope staff will make their rounds, asking every youth what they need, whether a doctor check-up, food for the weekend or a new shirt for a job interview. YouthHope takes a holistic approach to helping their youth thrive. “We fed over 1,200 different kids last year. That is a lot. There are a lot of kids who are hurting, struggling, who need help,” Heidi said. “There’s no way we could have done it by ourselves.” The First Baptist Church of Redlands has been an annual sponsor of YouthHope giving $2,000 last year. One of our members, Erin Estey, brings in dinner one Wednesday a month using some of the money from that fund. YouthHope is a volunteer-based non-profit with only two paid staff. Heidi works for free.
She does it because it’s needed. There were more than 1,400 homeless students from seventh to 12th grade registered in the Redlands Unified School District in 2011, according to YouthHope’s website. These are the teens YouthHope wants to reach. “If you talk to any of the youth, it’s everything to them. It’s a place to eat; it’s a place to get help; it’s a place to be loved. The kids will tell you, ‘YouthHope saved my life; YouthHope changed my life; YouthHope cares about me when my parents and my family didn’t care about me,’” Heidi said. So the goal of every staff member and volunteer at YouthHope is to love the youth as Christ loves them. “It doesn’t matter if they’re dirty; it doesn’t matter if they stink; it doesn’t matter if they say naughty words,” Heidi said. “We love them anyway.”
YouthHope is a sanctuary for teens ages 14-24, a place where there are art supplies, musical instruments, a pool table, a foosball table, racks of donated clothing, caring adults and other teens who know exactly what each one is going through. There are lots of ways people in the community can join in to help. Every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon, volunteers are needed to work on their building in finishing improvements and repairs. Donations are also needed: whether in cash, or in the form of gas cards, bus passes, $5 restaurant gift cards, guys clothing, socks, sleeping bags, or blankets. Anything helps. “We are able to help our kids,” Heidi said, “because your congregation cares. And that to me is so important.” To learn more, visit youthhope.org.
-Amanda Warner
HOPE FOR YOUTH
Photo courtesy of YouthHope
Fighting teen homelessness with unconditional love
Right: Heidi Mayer chatting with a teen at the YouthHope center.
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Pastor Richard Burke has recently launched a new series for the Thursday night Pastor’s Bible Study.
The series, called Out Live Your Life, was developed by Max Lucado and pairs a 15-minute DVD with small group discussion. It began Feb. 19 and will continue for five weeks until March 19. All are welcome to join in the Chapel at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays. Here is the series description according to the publisher:
These are difficult days in our world’s history. Billions of people are poor, millions
go hungry or thirsty every day. Disease claims thousands of lives daily. But we
have been given an opportunity to make a difference. We are created by a great God
to do great works. He invites us to rock the world with hope. Infiltrate all corners with
God’s love and life. So, how do we live in such a way that the world will be glad we
did? Join Max Lucado in this guided program to discover how you can outlive your life,
not just in heaven but here on earth. You’ll begin by following the real-life stories of
people like you who are making an impact in their communities and around the world. Then you’ll have the chance to begin your own journey of change. The Outlive Your
Life program will help you take another step toward making your time, your skills, and
your passions all add up to something bigger than you.
The Agape Sunday School class will begin a new book on Sunday, March 1. Following on the heels of "The First
Paul," Lloyd Howard and Josh Morgan will be leading a discussion using the book, “Maverick Mark: The Untamed First Gospel” by Bonnie B. Thurston. Come and join the conversation Sunday mornings at 9 a.m. in Judson Hall. Here is the description of the book according to the publisher:
Somewhere along the way, says Bonnie Thurston, the wild unlikelihood of the
Christian message has been reined in and made to fit more conventional categories of thought. That it is good and moral to be Christian we understand. That it is
feral and almost uncontrollably counter-cultural is something that has been
largely forgotten or suppressed. This taming has been especially effective in the case of the first gospel. In Maverick
Mark, Thurston sets out to rediscover the radicalism of Mark's original message. Thurston focuses on Mark’s conception of discipleship, economic justice, and
personal lifestyle. She demonstrates that this gospel raises fundamental questions
about some common contemporary Christian assumptions. This is an
accessible introduction to Mark, ideal for interested adult readers of all kinds, which incorporates the most reliable and up-to-
date Scripture scholarship.
Small Groups Launch New SeriesAgape Sunday Class PASTOR’S BIBLE STUDY
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March Birthday To...
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Join us every Sunday at 10:15 a.m. for worship in the Sanctuary. The month of March will feature services themed for Lent.
Arlene Lannon — 1Daniel Winter — 2Bob Leonard — 2Sydney Keierleber — 4Jack Joyce — 4Violet Allen — 7Allison Jensen — 7Fred Ford — 7Angela Keierleber — 7Tim Savage — 9Ellie Huynh — 10Sarah Whitley — 10Mary Wolfe — 10Nathan Jones — 11Christine Carpenter — 12Lillian Peske — 13Ashley Hansen — 14Aaron Zureick — 16Don Craw — 16Mason Wolfe — 17Tom Kirkpatrick — 18Caleb Lim — 19Erykah Hopkins — 19Dorothy Somers — 20Joseph Peske — 21Shelby Pleiss — 22Marion Jensen — 22Lily Applebee — 25Wendy Peske — 26Shannon Pleiss — 28Andrea Zureick — 29Queenie Fernandez — 31Angelica Beltran — 31
You’re invited to a birthday dinner in your honor! March birthdays eat free on Thursday, March 12 in the Fellowship Hall at 5:45 p.m.
The Menu: barbecue chicken, macaroni and cheese, fresh-baked rolls, sides, salad, and homemade birthday cake and ice cream for dessert.
DONATE YOUR MAGAZINES
Donations of fairly recent magazines in good condition are needed for the Mustard
Seed waiting room. Anyone who wishes to donate can put the magazines in the
Mustard Seed box or on the office counter with a note that they are for Mustard Seed.
Thank you!
ORGANIZE A FOOD PANTRY
Saturday, March 79 a.m. to noon
Redlands Family ServiceJoin us on the first Saturday of every month to serve at a wonderful local non-profit. Serving
activities vary, but can be anything from cleaning to organizing. Anyone under 18 needs
to be accompanied by an adult. Please wear closed-toe shoes and comfortable clothes. Sponsored by the Local Outreach Commission
SIGN UP FOR A DAILY LENTEN EMAIL
Receive an email every day with a brief Scripture passage, a reflection and a short
prayer to help guide you through this Lenten season. To be included on these daily emails,
let us know by emailing [email protected]. The devotionals will begin Wednesday, February 18 (Ash Wednesday)
and end on Saturday, April 4.
Dear FBC family,Thank you for your kind and encouraging
words during my recent surgery. I have felt wonderfully loved and cared for by you!
With deepest gratitude,Anne SandelPsalm 86:15
A THANK YOU NOTE
SEND YOUR CONDOLENCES
With heavy hearts, we announce the deaths of the following church members:
Diane IrvinJanuary 15, 1932 - February 22, 2015
Linda PopovichJune 22, 1935 - February 20, 2015
After the worship service on Sunday, March 22, stay for a special business meeting to hear about Pastor Deena’s journey to be ordinated. Church members will be able to affirm or question her, as well as offer
testimonies as to what she’s meant to them.
COME TO PASTOR DEENA’S AFFIRMATION
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Worship and praise for the
triumphal entry of our
Lord into Jerusalem as we begin Holy
Week.
Maundy Thursday
ServiceAfter dinner in the Fellowship
Hall, join us in the Sanctuary as we reflect
on Jesus’ last meal.
Good FridayService
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