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Welcome Conversations This Sunday 
January 22, after both services 9:15 am, 11:30 am
If you have recently started coming to St. Francis (or are even just considering the possibility), please come by for this informal conversation over coffee, so we can answer any questions you have about St. Francis, and also share with you ways to feel more connected to what God is doing in and through this community.
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Also This Sunday - Antiques Show Kickoff Meeting
January 22, 11:30 am Board Room
Yes! We start planning for our 49th Show! We welcome all for we have jobs big and small! You don't have to be into antiques! The show is also about Fellowship in addition to fundraising. The proceeds from the Antiques Show helps the ECW to donate to many outreach programs, pay for Child care at St. Francis as well as pledge $10,000 to the parish yearly. Come and join us!
Your 2017 Antiques Show Co-chairs,
Jamie Bellows, Darryl Tillman & Wendy Pratt
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St Francis Annual Meeting and Potluck 
Sunday January 29, following 10:00am Service.
Please bring your favorite dish or dessert - and join us for lunch and the latest information about Saint Francis and the upcoming year.
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Are you or your family looking to be directly involved with a ministry that truly makes a difference in the lives of those in need in our community? We need help with the constant demand of sorting clothing donations in the "blue bin" in the lower parking lot. Please contact Sue Egan, or Hank Gatlin. Thank you for considering being a part of this ministry team!
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Taizé Service of Healing and Wholeness
Tuesday, January 24th, 7:00pm
Join us again for our Taizé service of healing. This Taizé service, filled with music and candlelight, also provides the option for intercessory prayer with a Prayer team leader. We pray that the time will be a healing comfort for whatever you face or hold in your heart.
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This Saturday - Jazz Concert 
"The Red Guitar" - Saturday, January 21 at 7:00pm.
G
uitarist extraordinaire Bruce Forman is a seasoned jazz guitarist with top-level skills as a leader, entertainer and sideman.
The Red Guitar
may be the only jazz libretto where the narrator and the featured instrumentalist are the same performer. It requires great virtuosity, but is also serious one-man theater, exploring the obsessive demands that music places on its truest followers.
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Memory Boosters Workshops
Still 2 New Workshops you can attend: Next Thursday January 26; and February 9
9:00am-Noon, Board Room
Dr. Hart returns with an "encore" of new workshops. It is not necessary to have attended last year's workshops. Please sign up on the clipboard in the church office, or send an email to Mary in the office, so we can plan.
Jan 26; Making loss matter: Grief, mourning, and the search for meaning. Growing older often results in the rapid succession of losses, including loved ones, pets, jobs, social freedom, good health, and even status. Attendees will learn to manage grief through its various stages, discover motifs for making meaning of death, and adopt wellness strategies to cultivate individual and relational empowerment.
Feb 9: Memory boot camp: Cognitive fitness training for the aging brain
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Designs For Dining Invitations
Next Friday January 27, 9:30am Board Room
Please join us to mail our beautiful Designs for Dining invitations. Bring your own address book along to hand address invitations to friends that might not be on our list. We have stamps. Please let me know if you can help, even stopping in for an hour will help us finish earlier.
Cheryl Gutierrez.
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Happy Chinese New Year 2017 Year of the Rooster! 
Chinese New Year Auction and Fundraiser
Saturday, February 4, 2016 St. Francis Parish Hall
6:30 - 8:30pm
- Wine, Food and Fun
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White Elephant Auction
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Come and Experience the Lion Dancers
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Donate your "Treasures" to the SFOSF
Designs for Dining Silent Auction! Friday February 24
Do you have lovely party platters taking up space in your cupboards? Did you pick up the latest kitchen gadget and it is still sitting in the box? Or, did you receive gift cards to restaurants or local service vendors that will go unused? Well, you can donate your items to the Designs for Dining Silent Auction! We are looking for entertainment related items and gift certificates to include in our Silent Auction benefiting the St. Francis Outreach Scholarship Fund. Donations should be in good condition suitable for auction. Our event is scheduled for
February 24, 2017
so we would like to collect all donations by
February 10th
. We will happily provide you with a receipt for tax purposes. Please email or call Mary Deley
424/212-9958
- thank you for your support!
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Episcopal Church Women (ECW) Diocesan Annual Meeting
Friday and Saturday February 24 & 25, All Saints Church, Pasadena.
On February 24 & 25, the Diocesan ECW will hold its 121st Annual Meeting at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Friday evening's keynote speaker is the Rev. Becca Stevens, founder and president of Thistle Farms. This organization is run by and for survivors of human trafficking and prostitution. There is a registration fee. A car pool is forming. Click here for full details,
or contact Anna Eakins at 310-297-0701.
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Sermons and Bulletins
Need a prayer, or to talk with the clergy?
You are not interrupting our work - you ARE our work!
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10am coffee hour-
bring your favorite snacks!
Many thanks to the Friars (men's group), for sponsoring coffee hour for this year-but they'd still love some help with taking a plate home and bringing it back the following week with goodies to share!
Thank you!
Electronic Giving at St. Francis
Give by checking account, credit or debit card.
Prioritize your finances, helping you give to God's mission first.
Help you manage your giving, and access your giving account at your convenience.
Questions about our electronic giving?
Email Elaine Mistele. Or call her at the church office at 310 375 4617.
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Moved? Changed your Name?
Please send new details to the Mary in the office at 310 375-4617.
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