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		<title>The God Encounter: Sabrina&#8217;s 7-7-7 Story!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denny Freeman</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[July 26, 2022: Dear Grandchildren, This month,&#160;we have a special letter from your cousin, Sabrina. She&#8217;s&#160;sharing her 7-7-7 Story! I hope you get blessed as much as your grandmother and I have.&#160; Sabrina:&#160;Growing up in church and looking back on my life, I could&#160;see where God was faithful. When I&#160; actively pursued&#160;Him, He was always [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[July 26, 2022: Dear Grandchildren, This month,&#160;we have a special letter from your cousin, Sabrina. She&#8217;s&#160;sharing her 7-7-7 Story! I hope you get blessed as much as your grandmother and I have.&#160; Sabrina:&#160;Growing up in church and looking back on my life, I could&#160;see where God was faithful. When I&#160; actively pursued&#160;Him, He was always [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>What Does It Mean to be Great? Story of Jimmy Wayne: An Abandoned Teen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 13:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denny Freeman</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[April 26, 2022 Dear Grandchildren, Today, I&#160;want to talk about being great. What does greatness really mean in a human being? Webster&#8217;s Dictionary defines Greatness as:&#160;The state or quality of being great.&#160;That definition really didn’t help me much, so here’s my thinking of being&#160;great. To be great isn’t something you decide to achieve but&#160;happens as [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating 101 Years of a Life Well Loved</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 09:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denny Freeman</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[This month is a very important with two very&#160;special birthdays. January 10th is number 101 for my mother, Elsa Jean Polasek Freeman, who I’ll be writing about in this letter. Also, it’s the 78th birthday for my wife, lover, and best friend, Sandra Kay Catt Freeman. Congratulations to both amazing ladies. This letter is about [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How Baseball Describes My Salvation Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2021 14:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denny Freeman</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[November 26, 2021 Dear Grandchildren:&#160;Some of you have asked me the question, “When did you know you were a Christian?” The answer is fifty years ago when I was twenty-eight years old. Until then, I sincerely thought I was. I was baptized at ten because that’s what my church expected you to do. And for&#160;twenty-eight [&#8230;]]]></description>
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