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SUMMARY:Office Hours For Grant Applicants
DESCRIPTION:The FaithJustice Foundation team will host virtual office hours to answer your questions about the FaithJustice Incentive Grants 2023 application process. \nOffice hours will take place on Wednesday\, March 8 and March 22\, 2023 from 5pm to 6pm ET. \nClick here to sign up for office hours and to receive a link. \nClick here for more information about FaithJustice Incentive Grants. \nCan’t attend office hours? You may also send questions to info@faithjusticefoundation.org.
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/office-hours-for-grant-applicants/
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SUMMARY:Office Hours For Grant Applicants
DESCRIPTION:The FaithJustice Foundation team will host virtual office hours to answer your questions about the FaithJustice Incentive Grants 2023 application process. \nOffice hours will take place on Wednesday\, March 8 and March 22\, 2023 from 5pm to 6pm ET. \nClick here to sign up for office hours and to receive a link. \nClick here for more information about FaithJustice Incentive Grants. \nCan’t attend office hours? You may also send questions to info@faithjusticefoundation.org. \n \n 
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/office-hours-3-8-2023/
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SUMMARY:The State of the Dream 2023
DESCRIPTION:The FaithJustice Foundation is pleased to announce our seventh annual The State of the Dream event honoring the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Our theme is “Beyond Mercy to Social Justice.” \nThe program is designed for people of faith who have wondered how to incorporate social justice into local church ministry. Many church missions programs focus on mercy\, which includes meeting the immediate needs of those in their communities. Social justice ministry\, by contrast\, challenges the political and economic systems that perpetuate inequality. For example\, mercy ministry feeds the homeless. Social justice ministry fights for affordable housing and economic justice. Both are needed. \nPresented in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\, the seventh annual The State of the Dream will explore how congregations can move beyond mercy to social justice.  \n  \n \nPanelists: \n\nAimee H. Hong is Senior Executive Director of Education and Engagement\, General Board of Church and Society\, United Methodist Church\, where she designs and facilitates educational seminars\, webinars and curriculum to deepen the connection between faith and justice. Her goal is to transform minds and hearts for advocacy for a just world. Before joining the General Board of Church and Society\, Aimee served as an education director/pastor\, shepherding the spiritual formation of elementary\, youth and college students for 1.5-generation/2nd-generation Korean Americans in a large Korean immigrant church. She also served as a local pastor and education director\, actively incorporating justice and peace into faith formation. Aimee holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Oberlin College\, Master of Theological Studies and a Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology\, Emory University.\n\n\nRev. William H. Lamar IV is pastor of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Washington\, DC. An ordained itinerant elder in the AME Church\, Lamar has also served congregations in Florida and Maryland. Prior to his most recent appointments\, Lamar was the managing director of Leadership Education at Duke University Divinity School\, where he convened and resourced executive pastors of larges churches\, denominational finance executives\, young denominational leaders\, Methodist bishops\, and the constituency of Lilly Endowment’s Sustaining Pastoral Excellence Program. For nearly 15 years\, Lamar has been actively involved with organizations like Direct Action Research Training (DART)\, Industrial Areas Foundations (IAF)\, and Washington Interfaith Network (WIN) for faith-based community organizing for justice. Most recently\, he has collaborated with Repairers of the Breach\, the Center for Community Change (CCC)\, and People Improving Communities through Organization (PICO) to enact a social justice ministry in surrounding communities and to exhibit a real embrace the beloved community. 1996 magna cum laude graduate of Florida A&M University\, Lamar earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Public Management with a minor in Philosophy and Religion and a certificate in Human Resource Management. In 1999\, he earned the Master of Divinity degree from Duke University. Lamar is currently a doctoral student in the inaugural cohort of Christian Theological Seminary’s Ph.D. program in African-American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric. An avid reader and writer\, Lamar has published articles in outlets such as Christian Century\, The Christian Recorder\, Divinity Magazine\, “FaithandLeadership.com\,” The Anvil\, “TheUndefeated.com\,” and the “Huffington Post.” He has also been featured in The Washington Post and the Afro-American and on “The Takeaway\,” the “Huffington Post Live\,” and PBS “News Hour.”\n\n\nRev. Leslie Watson Wilson is the National Director of African American Religious Affairs (AARA) for People for the American Way. As the director\, Leslie is responsible for program planning\, implementation of the two core programs that make up AARA: African American Ministers Leadership Council (AAMLC – 501c3) and African American Ministers In Action (AAMIA – 501c4). She has also created four new opportunities to inform and engage the 2400 faith leader membership: “Healing Grace – Shepherds Gathering: A Dialogue on The Black Church\, Stigma\, Prejudice and Homophobia\,” the VESSELS civic education and participation initiative\, the Micah Leadership Council for faith leaders under the age of 40\, and the VASHTI health and leadership initiative for African American women and girls. Reverend Wilson is the former national policy director for the Balm In Gilead and served for nine years as the director of the Multicultural Programs Department of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice where she managed and developed La Iniciativa Latina (LIL)\, the Women of Color Partnership Project (WOCPP)\, and the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) which included annual planning of the National Black Religious Summit on Sexuality for African American clergy and laity. Leslie has served as the national coordinator and field director for the National Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and the coordinator of the Public Policy Institute of the Citizenship Education Fund\, the 501(c)(3) arm of the Rainbow. She is a master trainer\, has written 6 training curriculum (1 award winning) and has provided training to over 28\,000 leaders almost exclusively within the African American faith community for over 30 years.\n\n\nRandy Keesler is the Southeast Regional Coordinator for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development\, the anti-poverty program of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops\, where he has worked for over 27 years\, funding hundreds of community organizations working with low-income constituencies in the Northeastern and Southeastern states. A former Episcopalian seminarian\, he joined the United Farmworkers national boycott staff in 1975 in their campaign to organize an agricultural union for farmworkers in California.  He worked as a community organizer during the 1990s in Southern Md\, and with the Industrial Areas Foundation in Baltimore before coming to the Bishop’s Conference. He is President of the Kenesaw-Phoenix Housing Cooperative located in Washington DC and the Chair of the Social Justice Ministry of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church\, also located in the District of Columbia.\n\n\nModerator: Rev. Kevin J. Agee is Presiding Elder\, Washington-Virginia District\, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and Pastor of Russell Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Alexandria\, Virginia. He has pastored churches in Virginia\, Connecticut\, New Jersey\, New York\, Washington\, DC and Baltimore\, MD. Presiding Elder Agee’s awards for social justice advocacy include the 2008 Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Drum Major for Justice from the Jersey City Branch NAACP\, the 2013 Freedom Award from the Syracuse Onondaga Branch NAACP\, and the 2014 Racial Justice Catalyst Award from the Community Wide Dialogue to End Racism of Interfaith Works of Central New York. He is presently a member of the board of directors of the FaithJustice Foundation.\n\n \n 
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/state-of-the-dream-2023/
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SUMMARY:How to Build Your Congregation's Social Justice Ministry
DESCRIPTION:This one-day workshop will focus on building a grassroots\, congregation-based social justice ministry. Whether just starting out or ready to grow your ministry\, this workshop is designed to help with identifying issues affecting your community\, developing strategic partnerships\, community organizing\, and implementing plans that impact change. Workshop is designed for lead pastors\, church ministry staff\, lay leadership\, or ministry teams. \nUPDATE: This event is being rescheduled. Check back for new date and list of speakers and trainers. \nCost $25 (includes lunch) \nMore information and registration to come.
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/build-social-justice-ministry/
LOCATION:Annandale United Methodist Church\, 6935 Columbia Pike\, Annandale\, VA\, 22003
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SUMMARY:The State of the Dream 2020
DESCRIPTION:“Civil Rights and Civic Engagement”\nJoin us for our sixth annual “The State of the Dream panel discussion on the ongoing role of the faith community in the fight for civil rights\, voting rights\, and voter mobilization in an election year.\nSunday\, January 19\, 2020\nLunch at 1:30pm\nPanel Discussion at 2:30pm\nMount Olive Baptist Church\n1601 S 13th Road\nArlington\, VA 22204\n\nDOWNLOAD FLYER\nPanelists\nRev. James Victor\, Pastor\, Mt Olive Baptist Church\nRev. Terrance McKinley\, Racial Justice Mobilizing Director\, Sojourners \nDanielle Goldstone\, Founder\, innoFaith\nRev. Kevin Agee\, Presiding Elder\, CME Washington-Virginia District\nModerator: Rev. Cynthia Johnson-Oliver\, Founder and President\, FaithJustice Foundation
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/the-state-of-the-dream-2020/
LOCATION:Mt Olive Baptist Church\, 1601 South 13th Road\, Arlington\, VA\, 22204
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190505T133000
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SUMMARY:FaithJustice Immigration Forum: Hospitality\, Sanctuary\, Advocacy
DESCRIPTION:Many people of faith are disturbed and deeply concerned about the impact of current immigration policies on immigrants and families They have felt a calling to “do something” to help immigrant families and communities. Hospitality\, sanctuary\, and advocacy are three of the ways that congregations and faith-based organizations are responding to the current immigration crisis. From standing in solidarity with immigrants to providing legal services to traveling to the border\, this panel will discuss ways that people of faith are fulfilling our biblical calling to welcome the stranger and to oppose injustice and oppression.\n\n========\nSunday\, May 5\, 2019 @ 1:30 p.m.\nAnnandale Church | 6935 Columbia Pike | 22003\n\n========\nSpeakers:\nRob Rutland-Brown. National Justice for Our Neighbors\nOmar Angel Perez\, DMV Sanctuary Congregation Network\nStephanie Barnes\, Just Neighbors\nRev. Alexis Vaughan Kassim\, Little River United Church of Christ\nModerator: Rev. Cynthia Johnson-Oliver\, FaithJustice Foundation\n\n========\nJoin us in person or on Facebook Live @faithjusticefound\nFree admission.\nLunch available for purchase onsite\n$8 per person; Free for children under 12\nClick here for event flyer and here for menu.\nKindly RSVP.
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/immigration-forum/
LOCATION:Annandale United Methodist Church\, 6935 Columbia Pike\, Annandale\, VA\, 22003
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190129T183000
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SUMMARY:Putting Peace First
DESCRIPTION:How can DC area faith communities support young people in making a difference? For 25 years\, Peace First has been helping young people change the world. Come hear from Peace First founder Eric Dawson and DC’s own young changemaker and Peace First Fellow\, Yasmine Arrington\, about how young people can lead change.\nClick here to download flyer.\nEric Dawson is CEO of Peace First\, which he co-founded 25 years ago as a student at Harvard University. He has recently published Putting Peace First: 7 Commitments to Change the World. He’s also a Unitarian minister and a chaplain to social innovators. \nYasmine Arrington is CEO of ScholarCHIPS\, which she founded as a DC high school student in 2010 to support children of incarcerated parents. She is a recent graduate of Howard University School of Divinity. \n=======================\nTuesday\, January 29\, 2019\nChurch of The Holy City\n1611 16th St NW\nWashington\, DC 20009\n=======================\nBrought to you by:\nPeace First\ninnoFaith\nSwedenborg Center\nFaithJustice Foundation
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/putting-peace-first/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190120T123000
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SUMMARY:The State of the Dream: Voices of a New Generation
DESCRIPTION:The State of the Dream: Voices of a New Generation\n\nSunday\, January 20\, 2019\n12:30-2pm\nAnnandale United Methodist Church\n6935 Columbia Pike\nAnnandale\, VA 22003\nJoin us for our fifth annual The State of the Dream event. This year\, hear voices of a new generation. Local students will reflect on the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, the state of the dream for their generation\, and their hope for the future.\nJoin us in person or on Facebook Live!\nFree admission.\nLunch available for purchase onsite\n$8 per person; Free for children under 12\nKindly RSVP.
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/the-state-of-the-dream-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190112T120000
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SUMMARY:Bi-District Training Day
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the FaithJustice Foundation by attending our lunch time roundtable at Bi-District Training Day for the Arlington and Alexandria Districts\, United Methodist Church.\nRev. Cynthia Johnson-Oliver and Rev. Chenda Innis Lee will be sharing information about the FaithJustice Forum\, Social Justice Summer\, and other upcoming initiatives.\nFor more information and registration for this event\, visit https://bdtd.novaumc.org.
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/bi-district-training-day/
LOCATION:Floris United Methodist Church\, 13600 Frying Pan Road\, Herndon\, VA\, 20171\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181117T173000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: 13TH
DESCRIPTION:Netflix Description: “The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary 13TH refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution\, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude\, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted\, shall exist within the United States.” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists\, politicians\, historians\, and formerly incarcerated women and men\, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis.” (TV-MA) \nJoin us for a screening and discussion of this thought-provoking documentary in which scholars\, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom.  \nFilm Screening with Discussion to Follow.\nSaturday\, November 17\, 2018\n5:30pm \nDetails:\nMeal: 5:30pm\nFilm: 6pm (Running Time: 1:40)\nDiscussion to follow\nPizza and movie snacks provided.\nRecommended Donation: $5\nChild care available with advance registration for children up to age 10. RSVP by Nov 16 with names and ages of children to info@faithjusticefoundation.org. \nDisclaimer: This film contains material that may be unsuitable for children. Common Sense Media recommends this film for ages 16 and up due to incendiary language\, images of violence\, and discussion of sexual assault. Viewer discretion is advised. Read more here. \n \n  \n  \n– \n \n–
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/film-screening-13th/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181014T123000
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SUMMARY:FaithJustice Forum: Grace and Justice on Death Row
DESCRIPTION:FaithJustice Forum: Grace and Justice on Death Row\nAuthor Brian Stolarz\nin conversation with\nRev. Cynthia Johnson-Oliver and Rev. Chenda Innis Lee\nSunday\, October 14\, 2018\n12:30-2pm\nAnnandale United Methodist Church\nAnnandale\, VA 22003\nBrian Stolarz is a criminal defense attorney with LeClairRyan in Alexandria\, VA. For over 8 years\, he worked pro bono to free Alfred Dewayne Brown\, an African American man falsely accused of killing a police officer\, from Texas’ notorious Death Row. His book\, Grace and Justice on Death Row\, is a faith journey about his representation of Dewayne. Join us on October 14\, 2018 at Annandale United Methodist Church as we dive deeper into Brian’s story\, detailed in his book\, of how that experience both challenged his faith and transformed his understanding of the American Criminal justice system.  \nJoin us in person or on Facebook Live!\nFree admission.\nBox lunch available for purchase onsite – $7 per person.\nKindly RSVP.\n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/faithjustice-forum-grace-and-justice-on-death-row/
LOCATION:Annandale United Methodist Church\, 6935 Columbia Pike\, Annandale\, VA\, 22003
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180615
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SUMMARY:Social Justice Summer 2018
DESCRIPTION:More information coming soon!
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/social-justice-summer-2018/
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SUMMARY:Race and Poverty in America
DESCRIPTION:This panel discussion will discuss race and poverty in America fifty years after MLK. Today\, America continues to confront racial and economic inequality fifty years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. was assassinated while leading sanitation workers on strike in Memphis and fifty years after the Kerner Commission cited racism and lack of economic opportunity as the cause of civil unrest. Join us in person or online as we discuss the significance of Dr. King’s legacy of fighting racial and economic inequality and how people of faith can be leaders in overcoming poverty and inequality today. \nFacebook Live @faithjusticefound  #MLK50  #FaithJustice \nClick Here to Register \nPanelists: \n Marlysa D. Gamblin is Domestic Advisor for Policy and Programs at Bread for the World\, where she provides research and analysis to end hunger and poverty among low-income African Americans\, Latinos\, Native Americans\, those involved with the criminal justice system\, undocumented immigrants and female-headed households. She also staffed on the Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships during the Obama Administration\, where she proposed key recommendations to the White House on race\, justice\, and poverty. Marlysa received the Master of Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. with honors from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nRev. Michelle Ledder serves as Director of Program Ministries at the United Methodist General Commission on Religion and Race\, where she works to help all levels of the connection create the beloved community with systems\, policies\, and processes that level the playing field for everyone and that further diversity\, inclusion\, and equity within the Church. She is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and serves locally on the ministerial staff at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington\, DC. Michelle is a PhD candidate at Emory University with a focus on homiletics (preaching) and pedagogy (teaching). Her dissertation is entitled\, “To Tell the Truth in Love: An Anti-Racist Homiletic for the 21st Century White Christian.” She lives in northeast Washington\, DC with her rescued Schnoodle\, Webster.   \n. \nRev. Dr. Asa Lee is Associate Dean for Community Life at Wesley Theological Seminary\, where he is responsible for the programmatic\, academic\, and spiritual life of seminary students. He is a dedicated theological educator and believes strongly in education as the vehicle for expanding one’s view of the world. Dr. Lee was ordained at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Arlington\, Virginia\, where he served for 10 years as the Assistant Pastor/Minister of Christian Education. He received the Doctor of Ministry degree in Educational Leadership at Virginia Theological Seminary\, Master of Divinity Degree from Wesley Theological Seminary\, and BA in Music from Hampton University.  \n. \nModerator:  \nRev. Cynthia Johnson-Oliver is founder and president of the FaithJustice Foundation. She is an ordained elder in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church\, where she also serves as director of evangelism for the New York-Washington Region. She has served as National Organizer for Health Care Justice for the UM General Board of Church and Society and Coordinator of Faith-Based Outreach for the Democratic National Committee. She also served for ten years as Associate Pastor of Adult Discipleship at Annandale UMC. A graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College\, Harvard Divinity School\, and Yale Law School\, FaithJustice represents a marriage of discipleship and social justice\, ministry and advocacy to achieve a more just\, more loving world. \n 
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/race-and-poverty-in-america/
LOCATION:Annandale United Methodist Church\, 6935 Columbia Pike\, Annandale\, VA\, 22003
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180114T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180114T140000
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SUMMARY:The State of the Dream: Reflections on the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.
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URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/the-state-of-the-dream/
LOCATION:Annandale United Methodist Church\, 6935 Columbia Pike\, Annandale\, VA\, 22003
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171029T123000
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SUMMARY:FaithJustice Forum: Losing Our Religion? Millennials\, Social Justice\, and the Church
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion featuring:\nAmy Preston Page\, FaithJustice Foundation\nMichelle Whittaker\, Democracy Initiative\nRev. Peter Kwon\, Annandale UMC\nMinister Jordan Brown\, Wave Church\, Chesapeake\, VA\nModerator: Rev. Cynthia Johnson-Oliver\, FaithJustice Foundation\n  \nRecommended Reading:\nRobert P. Jones\, The End of White Christian America (ch. 4-5)\nRobert Jones and Daniel Cox\, “Doing Church and Doing Justice”\nPew Research Center\,  “America’s Changing Religious Landscape”\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/faithjustice-forum-losing-our-religion/
LOCATION:Annandale United Methodist Church\, 6935 Columbia Pike\, Annandale\, VA\, 22003
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170507T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170507T140000
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SUMMARY:FaithJustice Forum: A Nation of Immigrants
DESCRIPTION:Forum will address immigration policy in America\, including how immigration has evolved\, the rights of immigrants\, and how people of faith are called to respond.  \nSpeakers include\nErin McKenney\, Executive Director\, Just Neighbors\nBecky Monroe\, Stop Hate Project\, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law\nMike Hoefer\, Immigration Policy\nRev. Cynthia Johnson-Oliver\, Moderator \nRSVP: www.annandale-umc.org/faithjusticeforum.
URL:https://www.faithjusticefoundation.org/event/faithjustice-forum-a-nation-of-immigrants/
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