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these horrible assumptions have never,
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EVER struggled to feed their children
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A MONTH OF MOVIES
Mixing Bowl have no transportation). My hope is that
What side? people really, truly try and feel empathetic
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towards people who are going through
Sept. 8th– Sept. 29th
difficult times and living differently than
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I am going to try and be less
judgmental, I am going to work on listening
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f you have been following this column, want to happen. What better way to control to the “other side,” and I am going to try Delivery or Pick-Up
you may have noticed that I have been the population than through fear. The best
Time: Movie begins at 7:30pm
Isticking to pretty tame subjects lately. way to do that is to create a bad guy, for and forge ahead to create a community of CALL TO ORDER
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I have always been very forthright of others? I honestly don’t know what TUMC Children’s Ministry Presents:
with my opinions. I feel like we should treat would happen if that miracle were to occur,
each other as we wish to be treated. I feel because it never has before. Why not do the A MONTH OF MOVIES
like we should treat each other with respect, hard work, and let us be the first society to Double Feature
kindness, love, and acceptance. We have actually accomplish it?
become a world that loves to judge others. I wish it were that simple. Honestly, I "The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" and
To say that what we are doing is right and try to have conversations with people I do "Hocus Pocus"
what the other side is doing is wrong. We not agree with, and it usually gets pretty Each Friday beginning
have been split into two halves, the same heated. I have tried to sit down and open Movie begins
two sides that have been pitted against each myself up to the opposing side’s views, but at 7:30 p.m. SEPT. 8 -through
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other for as long as man can remember: I find that I can’t stomach it. It goes against Free MOVIE SEPT. 29 TH
good vs. evil. I know it sounds pretty cut every moral fiber in my body to believe that and POPCORN
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