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Sowing seeds

Dagny May Bankewitz, 10 months old and newly baptized, plays with confetti “seeds of faith and love” used during worship to illustrate the parable of the sower. Dagny and her parents, Tanya and Lee, are members of Oceanside [N.Y.] Lutheran Church.

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