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		<title>Getting Help from God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Orendorff, Matthew 15:21-28
When Jesus says to the Canaanite mother, &#8220;O woman, great is your faith,&#8221; what is he talking about?  What makes her faith so great?  As far as we know she never lead anyone to Jesus or God.  She doesn&#8217;t start a church.  She doesn&#8217;t even belong to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcumc.org/Sermons/2008/08/17/getting-help-from-god/</link>
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		<title>Worship Whisperings for Sunday, August 17th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting Help from God
A Caananite mother, desperate over the suffering of her child, asks Jesus for help. We don&#8217;t know her name, or that of her daughter, only that she shows great faith against tremendous odds. What can she teach us about suffering, healing, God&#8217;s love and acceptance?
Music Minute
Featuring Garland Bellamy and Dewey Forrester with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcumc.org/Sermons/2008/08/14/worship-whisperings-for-sunday-august-17th/</link>
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		<title>Youth Group News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, August 10 No youth activities
BCUMC Youth Group is open to all 7th through 12th grade youth. This is a wonderful opportunity to invite friends to come and enjoy fellowship and worship.
Contact Marge Kuykendall, Director of Youth Ministries,
at 425.883.0248 or youthdir@bcumc.org
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		<link>http://www.bcumc.org/Sermons/2008/08/14/youth-group-news-13/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Announcements for August 17th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer Sunday School. Due to lack of attendance, there will be no children&#8217;s summer Sunday School program until September.
Green Tip of the Week. Thanks BCUMC, for helping to compost and recycle! Your efforts are showing up in the reduced amount of plastic-bagged garbage going into the dumpster each week. We want to further reduce our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcumc.org/Sermons/2008/08/14/weekly-announcements-for-august-17th/</link>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Message</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Bearcreekians,
Today Vickie and I have been married 37 years. I first said &#8220;I do&#8221; to Vickie on August 14, 1971, and almost every day since.
There were some who thought our marriage was a mistake. There are some who thought it wouldn&#8217;t last. There were even days when we wondered if we had done the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcumc.org/Sermons/2008/08/14/pastors-message-19/</link>
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		<title>Rock Littlefaith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matthew 14:22-33,  David Orendorff
There is an old, old story about a Lutheran pastor, who had been in town 25 years, and a Presbyterian pastor, who had been in town 15 years, who, to welcome the new young United Methodist pastor, took him fishing.  They were not in the boat long when the Lutheran [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcumc.org/Sermons/2008/08/10/rock-littlefaith/</link>
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		<title>New York AIDS Ride Starts this Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BCUMC,

In the next 24 hrs I&#8217;ll finish another workday and all that packing. Kyle, Caitlin &#38; I fly to Buffalo on Friday, arriving in Niagara Falls about midnight.
On Saturday, I&#8217;ll be reunited with my bike, FedEx- delivered a couple days ago, put it together, go through official check-in and ride the Maid of the Mist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcumc.org/Sermons/2008/08/07/new-york-aids-ride-starts-this-weekend/</link>
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		<title>Youth Group News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, August 10
No youth activities
Thursday, August 14 
Youth Council Advisory Team meeting
4:00-5:30 p.m.    Youth Room
BCUMC Youth Group is open to all 7th through 12th grade youth. This is a wonderful opportunity to invite friends to come and enjoy fellowship and worship.
Contact Marge Kuykendall, Director of Youth Ministries, at 425.883.0248 or youthdir@bcumc.org

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		<link>http://www.bcumc.org/Sermons/2008/08/07/youth-group-news-12/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Announcements for August 10th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer Sunday School. Due to lack of  attendance, there will be no children&#8217;s summer Sunday School program until September.
Green Tip of the Week. Like It Grows on Trees. Paper comprises nearly three-quarters of office waste and uses 188 million trees per year. Simple measures can significantly reduce paper consumption and the need for recycling. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcumc.org/Sermons/2008/08/07/weekly-announcements-for-august-10th/</link>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Message</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Bearcreekians,
God is sometimes a trickster and I will come back to this.
I have been thinking about the remarkable ways we reach to our community with God&#8217;s good news of grace and shalom.  The Worship Teams and Committee lead us weekly in inspiring worship. We study in a remarkable number of small groups of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcumc.org/Sermons/2008/08/07/pastors-message-18/</link>
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