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BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
Compiled by Ed Gilman
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You Want to Live
a Safe Life?
  • Avoid riding in automobiles because they are
    responsible for 20 of all fatal accidents.
  • Do not stay home because 17 of all accidents
    occur in the home.
  • Avoid walking on streets or sidewalks because 14
    of all accidents occur to pedestrians.
  • Avoid traveling by air, rail, or water because
    16 of all accidents involve these forms of
    transportation.
  • You will be pleased to learn that only .001 of
    all deaths occur in church.   
  • Therefore, logic tells us that the safest place
    for you to be at any given point in time is at
    church!

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BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
Americas Churches Are In Decline
  • Across this nation about 85 of our churches are
    plateaued or in decline.
  • Of the remaining 15, about 14 are growing
    through transfer growth.
  • Only 1 of churches in America are growing by
    conversion growth.

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BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
10 Must Do Duties
1- Know the 10 Bottom Line Numbers (see slide
7) 2- Establish, Develop, Maintain and Guide
use of Sunday School Prospect Files 3- Create
and Guide the Sunday School Leadership Team
(faculty) 4- Visit in Homes of your Sunday
School Leaders 5- Establish a Prayer Ministry
with Sunday School Leaders (lists)
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BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
10 Must Do Duties
6- Establish New Units and Restructure your
Sunday School at least every 2 years 7- Set
Annual Goals for the Sunday School 8- Conduct
Annual Planning Retreats for your
Team 9- Provide for Training of your Sunday
School Leaders (and keep
records) 10- Give Recognition to your Sunday
School Leaders (formally and informally)
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BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
10 Bottom Line Numbers
1- Sunday School Enrollment 2- Sunday School
Average Attendance 3- Enrollment / Attendance
Spread 4- Number of Prospects 5-
Possibilities (enrollment prospects) 6- New
Enrollment Required to Gain 7- 3 Sundays and
Youre Out 8- Sunday School Attendance to
Baptism Ratio 9- New Units 10- Unsaved
Enrollment to Baptism Ratio
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BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
Flakes Formula
  • He did not give us a magic formula, but he did
    give us 5 timeless principles for Sunday School
    growth that are still relevant today.
  • Flakes formula does not work, you have to work
    the formula.
  • Remember, all great ideas eventually erode into
    hard work, Flakes formula is no exception.

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Flakes Formula
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
1- Know the Possibilities
  • Keep definite records of enrollment.
  • Continue to find prospects.
  • Know the difference between a prospect and a
    suspect.
  • Keep an accurate visitation file of these
    prospects for each age group.
  • Continue to cultivate new ways to discover
    prospects.

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Flakes Formula
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
2- Enlarge the Organization
  • Sunday Schools must continue to create new
    classes and departments (units) if they are to
    grow.
  • New units typically grow faster because they are
    smaller and want to grow.
  • New units are usually more focused on outreach
    and evangelism, and have higher rates of
    baptisms.
  • New units are better at assimilating new members
    than established classes.
  • New units open more doors for ministry
    opportunities to individuals and their families.

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Flakes Formula
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  • 3- Enlist and Train Workers
  • Enlisting workers properly and enlisting proper
    workers is a critical element in growing a church
    through the Sunday School.
  • Provide each potential teacher with a job
    description of your Sunday Schools expectations
    of them.
  • Train them through specific training
    opportunities and through a consistent workers
    meetings.
  • Always maintain a proper teacher/pupil ratio in
    fairness to both the teacher and the pupils.

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Flakes Formula
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • 4- Provide the Space Facilities
  • You can only put so many people in one room.
  • When the room is full growth stops.
  • The proper facilities and adequate space must be
    provided in order to grow.
  • Like all of Flakes formula, growth will not
    automatically happen when you provide great
    facilities, all the principles of Flakes formula
    must be followed to sustain long term, healthy
    Sunday School growth.

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Flakes Formula
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
5- Go After the People
  • Visitation of prospects and constantly contacting
    absentees and members for ministry, witnessing,
    and spiritual nurture is critical to growth .
  • Follow-up is the key to reaching people in this
    busy culture we live in.
  • Open enrollment means there are no
    qualifications for membership in a Sunday School
    class, they dont even have to attend before they
    can be enrolled.

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Barnetts Principles of Enlargement
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1. The Principle of Leadership Reaching
prospects depends upon an adequate ratio of
workers to enrollment upon the degree of
commitment these workers show toward their
tasks. 2. The Principle of Delegation Reachi
ng prospects depends upon the effective
delegation of responsibility to Sunday School
workers. 3. The Principle of Grouping
Reaching persons depends on using a grading
grouping plan that respects the individuals
developmental stage provides for annual
promotion in all groups. 4. The Principle
of Involvement of Learners Reaching prospects
depends upon the degree and quality of
involvement which teacher and class members
achieve in their Bible study.
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
Barnetts Principles
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6. The Principle of Organization Reaching
prospects depends upon the creation of new units
designed to meet the growth potential at
hand.7. The Principle of Space and
Facilities Reaching prospects depends upon the
expansion of space and other facilities as
growth potential suggests the need.8. The
Principle of Relationship Reaching prospects
depends upon balanced, consistent, prayerful
action in accordance with all the principles of
growth.
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
Barnetts Principles
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BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • Ten Characteristics of the
  • Purpose-Driven Sunday School

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  • 1. The intent and focus of Bible Study is to
    bring about life change through an encounter with
    Gods Word and to help members understand and
    live out their mission.
  • 2. Every Bible study presents an evangelistic
    focus in content or application.
  • 3. Unit leaders and members regularly
    contribute to the evangelistic prospect list,
    select visitation teams and participate in weekly
    visitation.
  • 4. Age appropriate curriculum is chosen to
    accomplish the mission of the church by a team of
    staff and laity following a developmental process
    designed for personal and corporate growth.
  • 5. Teachers are certified through a formal
    apprentice program, being mentored by an
    experienced teacher(s) combined with an
    appropriate personal study program.

Purpose-Driven
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  • 6. Leaders members are led to maintain a
    dated prayer list of persons needs, recording
    prayer results sharing answered prayers as
    appropriate.
  • 7. Fellowships are planned and conducted at
    least monthly for the purpose of developing
    friendships, involving members, guests
    in-service members as appropriate.
  • 8. Class enrollment is maintained at a number
    that facilitates growth, with apprentice leaders
    assigned to each unit ready to begin the next
    group as soon as the enrollment reaches the
    birthing level.
  • 9. Units are structured with a ministry/care
    team that maintains a weekly contact with members
    has an action plan for meeting immediate long
    term members needs.
  • 10. Each teaching unit plans and conducts
    appropriate service projects designed to
    penetrate and impact the community for Christ,
    providing for the involvement of all members.

Purpose-Driven
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BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • An Overview of the Ten
    Best Practices of Sunday School

The best practices of Sunday School as strategy
are presented here as 10 brief, concrete,
imperative statements. They are not a mechanical
formula for success, but describe the process of
designing an effective Sunday School strategy.
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BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
1- Commit to the Strategy
  • We will commit to Sunday School as the
    foundational strategy in a local church for doing
    the work of the Great Commission by
  • Developing an annual plan that supports the
    churchs thrust to lead people to faith in the
    Lord Jesus Christ and build on-mission
    Christians.
  • Including as key elements of the plan ongoing
    short-term open Bible study groups additional
    Bible study events, such as Vacation Bible
    School, that focus on foundational evangelism
    foundational discipleship.
  • Providing the best-possible financial support to
    implement the strategic plans.
  • Implementing the plan through specific monthly
    and weekly actions.

Ten Best Practices
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2. Organize with Purpose
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • We will organize our Sunday School ministry to
    accomplish the objectives of leading people to
    faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and building
    on-mission Christians by
  • using the concept of age-graded, open Bible study
    groups as the primary organizing principle for
    Bible study groups.
  • providing groups for all ages and generations,
    including preschool, children, youth, young
    adults, and adults.
  • relying on sound learner leader ratios proven to
    be effective for each age group in developing the
    age-group organizational structures.

Ten Best Practices
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3. Build Kingdom Leaders
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • We will build kingdom leaders who are committed
    to Sunday School strategy as an expression of
    faithfulness to Christ, His church, and the
    mission mandate He has given by
  • Praying for God to call out leaders for kingdom
    service through Sunday School ministry.
  • Implementing a leader-enlistment approach that
    focuses on helping people respond to their
    personal call from God rather than an approach
    that is primarily concerned with filling church
    or organizational positions.
  • Enlisting leaders who themselves are committed to
    cultivating and multiplying new leaders.

Ten Best Practices
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3. Build Kingdom Leaders
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
Continued
  • We will build kingdom leaders who are committed
    to Sunday School strategy as an expression of
    faithfulness to Christ, His church, and the
    mission mandate He has given by
  • Devoting major attention to leadership meetings
    that focus on the mission, on relationships, and
    on Bible study.
  • Providing training that equips leaders for their
    work and enhances the quality of their
    leadership.
  • Calling out people who will give their lives to
    evangelizing the lost and who are willing to
    participate in ongoing evangelism training and
    multiplication of evangelism leaders.

Ten Best Practices
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4. Develop Soul Winners
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • We will lead leaders and members to become
    soul-winners and witnesses for Christ in all life
    settings, including the home, by-
  • Teaching members to view being a practicing
    soul-winner as the role of every believer.
  • Challenging members continually to be aware of
    the spiritually lost people they encounter daily.
  • Focusing attention on the responsibility of
    Sunday School leaders and members to lead people
    to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Training leaders and members how to share the
    gospel through an intentional, ongoing strategy.
  • Providing regular opportunities for leaders and
    members to share the gospel as part of personal
    home visits.

Ten Best Practices
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5. Win the Lost
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • We will engage in evangelistic actions that
    result in winning the lost to Christ, as well as
    in other actions that target the unchurched and
    reclaim the spiritually indifferent, by
  • Involving members in discovering individual and
    family prospects.
  • Maintaining up-to-date master and working
    prospect files and implementing an ongoing
    approach for making evangelistic prospect
    visitation assignments to members.
  • Providing regular, specific times for
    evangelistic, outreach, ministry visitation.

Ten Best Practices
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5. Win the Lost
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
Continued
  • We will engage in evangelistic actions that
    result in winning the lost to Christ, as well as
    in other actions that target the unchurched and
    reclaim the spiritually indifferent, by
  • Committing ourselves to witness for Christ in all
    life settings, including the home.
  • Teaching evangelistically, including foundational
    teaching, especially with preschoolers and
    children, that becomes the basis for a later
    conversion as the Holy Spirit brings conviction
    of sin.
  • Challenging unchurched or spiritually indifferent
    individuals and families to commit to living as
    followers of Jesus Christ.

Ten Best Practices
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6. Assimilate People
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • We will assimilate individuals and families into
    the life of the church and facilitate their
    growth as disciples of Christ by
  • Encouraging new believers to identify with Christ
    and His church through baptism and church
    membership.
  • Emphasizing regular participation in systematic
    Bible study as the foundational step of
    discipleship.
  • Enrolling people anytime, anywhere in ongoing
    Bible study and other short-term Bible study
    groups.
  • Providing an atmosphere for building
    relationships with one another in an environment
    of grace, acceptance, support, and encouragement.
  • Encouraging all believers to strengthen their
    walk with Christ by participating in other
    discipleship opportunities.

Ten Best Practices
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6. Assimilate People
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
Continued
  • We will assimilate individuals and families into
    the life of the church and facilitate their
    growth as disciples of Christ by
  • Developing a system for tracking individual and
    family participation in ongoing Bible study and
    in discipleship groups.
  • Developing a system for tracking actions that
    serve as indicators of spiritual growth and
    personal spiritual vitality.
  • Providing opportunities for new Christians and
    church members, and their families, to discover
    how they fit into the life and ministry of the
    church.
  • Planning opportunities for individuals and
    families to pray together and to work together
    toward fulfilling the Great Commission.
  • Promoting systematic, biblical giving and the
    stewardship of life as the norm for believers.

Ten Best Practices
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7. Partner with Families
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • We will partner with parents and families to
    build the home as the center of biblical guidance
    by
  • Providing an appropriate open Bible study group
    for every member of the family, including family
    members with special needs.
  • Providing training and resources to help parents
    fulfill their responsibility as the primary Bible
    teachers and disciplers of their children.
  • Developing family-oriented evangelistic and
    ministry strategies that help families to reach
    other families for Christ and the church and
    minister to their needs.

Ten Best Practices
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7. Partner with Families
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • We will partner with parents and families to
    build the home as the center of biblical guidance
    by
  • Building a leadership team that believes in and
    models the essential partnership of home and
    church in Bible teaching.
  • Providing Bible study and devotional materials
    that encourage and support family worship and
    Bible study in the home.
  • Exploring the possibilities for intergenerational
    ministries that enable the different generations
    to interact with each other rather than being
    isolated from one another.

Ten Best Practices
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8. Teach to Transform
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • We will engage individuals and families in the
    biblical model of instruction that leads to
    spiritual transformation by
  • Preparing faithfully for the open-group Bible
    teaching session, including personal spiritual
    preparation and participation in leadership
    meetings.
  • Encountering Gods Word in a Bible study group
    guiding learners toward spiritual transformation.
  • Continuing to guide learners toward spiritual
    transformation in daily living and family
    relationships.
  • Centering the transformational teaching learning
    process around these Bible teaching elements
    acknowledge authority, search the Scripture,
    discover the truth, personalize the truth,
    struggle with the truth, believe the truth, and
    obey the truth.
  • Preparing open-group lesson plans to teach in a
    variety of ways (relational, musical, logical,
    physical, reflective, visual, verbal approaches).

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8. Teach to Transform
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Continued
  • We will engage individuals and families in the
    biblical model of instruction that leads to
    spiritual transformation by
  • Looking for opportunities in other settings to
    both teach and model the message of the Bible.
  • Equipping parents to be the primary Bible
    teachers in their homes.
  • Choosing open-group Bible study curriculum
    materials that lead learners to explore the
    entire counsel of God during their life stages.
  • Providing the best-possible teaching resources
    that enable teachers to teach for spiritual
    transformation.
  • Providing the best-possible space and equipment
    as appropriate for age-group teaching and
    learning.

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9. Mobilize for Ministry
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • We will take deliberate actions to mobilize
    people to meet with compassion the needs of
    individuals and families by
  • Remembering that the greatest need is to be in
    right relationship with the Lord.
  • Helping identify ministry needs and informing
    leaders and members about ministry opportunities.
  • Equipping individuals and families to minister to
    others in need in all settings.
  • Leading members and their families to be involved
    in ministry and mission projects as a
    continuation of Sunday School Bible study.
  • Involving the church family in supporting
    missionaries and mission work through prayer and
    giving.

Ten Best Practices
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10. Multiply Leaders and Units
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • We will develop and implement an intentional
    process for continually multiplying leaders and
    units by
  • Communicating the key relationship that
    multiplication of leaders and units has to the
    overall mission of Sunday School as strategy.
  • Teaching every believer to be in service and on
    mission and to multiply themselves.
  • Developing a potential leader-training ministry
    that helps members explore their leadership
    potential and possibilities.
  • Making leader enlistment and multiplication of
    units an ongoing process rather than annual
    actions.

Ten Best Practices
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10. Multiply Leaders and Units
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • We will develop and implement an intentional
    process for continually multiplying leaders and
    units by
  • Encouraging and supporting the initiative of
    existing Bible study groups to reproduce
    themselves through new open Bible study groups
    that increase the opportunity to evangelize and
    disciple more people.
  • Encouraging and supporting the efforts of leaders
    to identify prospective leaders and guide them
    toward service for Christ and His church.
  • Engaging the church to start a new Vacation Bible
    School, start a new Sunday School, or help to
    plant a new church mission.

Ten Best Practices
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Sunday School General Officers Job Descriptions
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Sunday School Director
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • Being responsible to the church for all phases of
    Sunday School work including outreach, Sunday
    School teaching improvement and worker training,
    witnessing, ministering, and Bible teaching
    projects such as Vacation Bible School.
  • Seek counsel and leadership from the pastor or
    Minister of Education.
  • Lead the Sunday School Council in planning and
    evaluating the work of the Sunday School.
  • Represent the Sunday School on the Church
    Council.

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Sunday School Secretary
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • The Sunday School Secretary is responsible to
    the Sunday School Director for compiling and
    maintaining weekly, quarterly, annual records,
    and reports for the Sunday School.

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Outreach-Evangelism Director
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • Be responsible to the Sunday School Director for
    planning, conducting, and evaluating the Sunday
    School in reaching, witnessing, and ministering
    to those who are not members of the Sunday
    School.
  • Be responsible for training of outreach leaders.
    Coordinate plans for prospect discovery.

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Vacation Bible School Director
BASICS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
  • Responsible to the Sunday School Director for
    planning, promoting, conducting, and evaluating
    the church's Vacation Bible School.

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Sunday School Workers Covenant
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Believing that the privilege of guiding people in
the Christian way of life is worthy of my best,
I covenant, as a worker in the Sunday School of
my church to
  • Order my conduct in keeping with the principles
    of the New Testament, and seek the help of the
    Holy spirit that I may be faithful and efficient
    in my work. (Eph. 41)
  • Be regular and punctual in attendance and, in
    case of unavoidable absence, give notice thereof
    as far in advance as possible. (I Cor. 42)
  • Make through preparation of the lesson and for my
    other duties each week. (II Tim. 215)
  • Attend the regular planning meetings. (Luke
    1418-20)
  • Use the Bible with my group on Sunday morning, or
    other meeting times, and help them to understand
    and love it. (Psa. 11916)

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  • Contribute my tithe to my churchs budget. (Mal.
    310)
  • Visit prospects frequently and make a special
    effort to contact absentees each week. (Acts
    246)
  • Study one or more books from the Church Study
    Course each year. (Prov. 1528a)
  • Be loyal to the program of the church, striving
    to attend all worship services. (Heb. 1025)
  • Make witnessing a major endeavor. Prov. 1130)
  • Seek to discover and meet the needs of those with
    whom I come into contact, especially fellow
    church members and prospects for my church. (Gal.
    62)
  • Pray regularly for the church, the Sunday School,
    the officers and teachers, and for the pupils and
    the homes from which they come. (I Thess. 517)

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  • Cooperate wholeheartedly in the plans and
    activities of the church. (I Cor. 39)
  • Apply the teachings of Christ in moral and social
    issues of my everyday life. (James
    122)
  • With the help of God, I will do my utmost to keep
    this covenant
  • ____________________________
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