{"id":5487,"date":"2014-11-04T19:24:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T00:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/?p=5487"},"modified":"2015-09-29T19:27:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T00:27:25","slug":"november-9-2014-are-you-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/november-9-2014-are-you-prepared\/","title":{"rendered":"November 9, 2014 — Are You Prepared"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jocelyn Breeland–Fairfax, VA<\/div>\n
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Warm-up Question<\/strong><\/p>\n

What\u2019s the most important way you are preparing for your future?<\/p>\n

Are You Prepared
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Here are some things that have been happening around the country in the last couple of weeks:<\/p>\n

Authorities on the Big Island of Hawaii have gone door-to-door notifying residents to make preparations for a possible evacuation in advance of lava flows from the Kilauea volcano. Will everyone remain safe? Will their homes?<\/p>\n

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Christmas decorations, on store shelves for weeks, are even more prominent now that Halloween has passed. Have you bought yours yet?<\/p>\n

Hospitals and state and local governments are working urgently to develop plans in the event of a case of Ebola in their areas. Will the plans be successful in containing the disease?<\/p>\n

Voters in Texas, Ohio and North Carolina scrambled to comply with Supreme Court action that upheld new voter ID requirements, fewer voting dates and an end to same-day voter registration \u2013 respectively, in those states. Was there a noticeable reduction in voter fraud, as some insisted, or would poor and minority voters be suppressed, as others feared?<\/p>\n

In every case, people are foreseeing the future, and taking steps to be ready.<\/p>\n

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Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n