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Saturday, October 10
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The 2009 Potomac Country House Tour slideshow

Sunday, October 04
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Potomac Country House Tour is Saint Francis Church’s annual fundraiser that benefits ministries at home and far away. The Saint Francis clergy were chauffeured to the homes by this year’s terrific Co-Chairs, Fran and Anne Baker, Jim Baker doing the actual driving. Here we say a quick hello and thank you to John Whatley, parking attendant at the home of Ken and Lee Ann Slosser. Thank you to the hundreds of Saint Francis parishioners who worked so hard and well on this year’s tour!

Thursday, September 10
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“ i love boxing manna food. and wendy’s. and getting lost in backwoods potomac. hallelujahhh!!!”
“boxing food for 200 people AND a frosty.. all in one night :)”
“is thanking jesus for her frosty… AND the opportunity to get 200 people food =)”
“boxing food and going down dark roads…love it:)”
“has two community service hours that he is not in need of, who wants em”
• What’s this? Tonight’s Facebook status updates of Ashley, Katie, Molly, Genny, and a wiseguy named Aaron. They all went with Craig Windham this evening to the Manna Food Center to box food.
Thursday, July 02
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“ For men and women who are called to leadership in the community of faith, apprenticeship in the Psalms is not an option; it is a mandate…. Too much is at stake here — the maturity of the word of God, the integrity of pastoral ministry, the health of worship — to permit pastors to pick and choose a curriculum of prayer as they are more or less inclined. We can as well permit a physician to concoct his medicines from the herbs and weeds in his backyard as allow a pastor to learn prayer from his or her own subjectivities…. The Psalms, of course, are no special preserve of pastors. All who pray, Christians and Jews alike, find their praying “voice” in them — but for pastors, who are in a special place of responsibility to pray for others and to teach them to pray, it is a dereliction of duty to be ignorant of or negligent in them.
• Eugene Peterson, Working the Angles
Thursday, June 11
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Ancient Israel was not any more inclined to attribute divine causation to awesome natural events — earthquakes, lunar eclipses, storms — than anyone else in antiquity, and in certain ways they were more cautious. The student of Ancient Near East culture and religion can confirm this. But Israel is one thing. David Hirsch — the משה and High Priest of Student Ministry at Saint Francis — is an altogether different piece of work. [This photograph was taken Tuesday 9 June 2009 at the Saint Francis Student Ministries weekly cookout.]

Ancient Israel was not any more inclined to attribute divine causation to awesome natural events — earthquakes, lunar eclipses, storms — than anyone else in antiquity, and in certain ways they were more cautious. The student of Ancient Near East culture and religion can confirm this. But Israel is one thing. David Hirsch — the משה and High Priest of Student Ministry at Saint Francis — is an altogether different piece of work. [This photograph was taken Tuesday 9 June 2009 at the Saint Francis Student Ministries weekly cookout.]