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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

January 23, 2006 -- Monday Mission

Good Friday offering destined for Jerusalem and the Middle East

Anglican and Global Relations announces the availability of 2006 Good
Friday
Offering materials

Editor's note: Since 1922, Episcopalians have supported the ministries
of
the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East through the annual
Good Friday Offering. The Episcopal Church's Office of Anglican and
Global
Relations announces the availability of Good Friday Offering materials
for
parishes to use to spread the word about this important appeal.

[Episcopal News Service]In his annual Epiphany letter, Presiding Bishop
Frank T. Griswold has asked that Episcopalians continue to pray for
their
sisters and brothers in the Holy Land and to support the Good Friday
Offering as an opportunity to demonstrate solidarity with Anglicans and
all
Christians in that troubled region of the world. For the past 84 years
the
Episcopal Church has taken up a Good Friday Offering to be sent to the
Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, symbolizing unity
with
and passionate concern for those who witness to Christ throughout that
region.

The Province of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
covers
an enormous area: the whole southern Mediterranean coast from Algeria to
Lebanon and Syria, and down to the Persian Gulf and the Horn of Africa.
Yet
it is one of the smaller Provinces of the Anglican Communion in
membership.
Outside of the Holy City the countryside is overwhelmingly Islamic and
Jewish, and even in Jerusalem the dominant Christian traditions are
Greek
Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Armenian Apostolic.

However, Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal maintains a visible Anglican presence
in
the Diocese of Jerusalem - which includes Israel, the Palestine National
Authority, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon - and his sister dioceses of Egypt
and
North Africa, Cyprus and the Gulf, and Iran are equally involved with
numerous ministries throughout the region.

Support received through the Good Friday Offering translates into
operating
hospitals, schools, orphanages and many other programs, accomplished for
the
benefit of all people in the province, Christian, Jewish and Muslim
alike.

The witness of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East is
highlighted in the special Good Friday Offering materials available from
Episcopal Books and Resource Center; these materials include a bulletin
shell, offering envelopes and a poster. A form to order the 2006
offering
materials, which include a poster, a bulletin shell, and offering
envelopes,
accompanied the Epiphany letter. The bulletin shell and the poster are
also
available online at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/agr/

Good Friday Offering materials are also available through Episcopal
Books
and Resource Center by calling 800.903.5544.

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