Next Saturday evening with a meal beginning at 5:00 pm followed by a family movie.

Dinner will be provided by the church
Families are asked to bring a dessert to share.

Sign up after church this Sunday with Kris Loux.

If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps
and lines.
 
She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused
her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of
line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line
tugging in her mouth.
 
A fisherman spotted her just east of the FarraloneIslands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help.
 
Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her which is extremely dangerous  as one slap of the whales tail could kill a rescuer. 

They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.

When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles.
She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them,
pushed gently around-she thanked them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
 
The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.
 
And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.

1.  Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put 'PHOTO ID REQUIRED.' 

2.   When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the complete account number on the 'For' line. Instead, just put the last four numbers. The credit card company knows the rest of the number, and anyone who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check processing channels won't have access to it.

3.   Put your work phone # on your checks instead of your home phone. If you have a PO Box use that instead of your home address. If you do not have a PO Box, use your work address.  Never have your SS#  printed on your checks. (DUH!) You can add it if it is necessary.  But if you have It printed, anyone can get it.

4.   Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine.  Do both sides of each license,  credit card, etc. You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place.

5.   If your wallet is ever stolen cancel your credit cards immediately.  The key is having the toll free numbers and your card numbers handy so you know whom to call.  Keep those where you can find them.

6.   File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where your credit cards, etc., were stolen. This proves to credit providers you were diligent, and this is a first step toward an investigation (if there ever is one).

 7.   Call the 3 national credit reporting organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on your name and also call the Social Security fraud line number.  I had never heard of doing that until advised by a bank that called to tell me an application for credit was made over the internet in my name.
 
Now, here are the numbers you always need to contact about your wallet, if it has been stolen:

    1.) Equifax: 1-800-525-6285 

    2.) Experian  (formerly TRW): 1-888-397-3742

     3.) Trans Union : 1-800-680 7289

     4.) Social Security Administration (fraud line): 1-800-269-0271

An interesting article from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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