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Daybook -- Today is Monday, December 18, 2006, in Advent.
* Today in Scripture: Daily Office meditation: http://www.forwardmovement.org/todaysreading.cfm * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 2001, a fire swept through the north transept of the Episcopal Cathedarl of St. John the Divine in New York City, destroying the gift shop and threatening the sanctuary. http://www.stjohndivine.org/
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World Report
ENGLAND: Anglican Communion Office clarifies CANA as a Nigerian 'mission' http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_80562_ENG_HTM.htm
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Diocesan Digest
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: Citing decline in health, bishop takes short-term leave http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_80569_ENG_HTM.htm
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Mission: Sudanese students to benefit from education initiative, '100 Churches Project'
By Anne Clarke Brown
[ENS, Source: Diocese of Vermont] Abraham Awolich arrived in Burlington, Vermont, five years ago from the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. The former "lost boy of Sudan" graduated from the University of Vermont in December 2005 and is now co-director of the New Sudan Education Initiative (NESEI), an ambitious project to help his people in Sudan by building 20 secondary schools to serve some 20,000 students.
Awolich and the other NESEI co-director, Robert Lair -- a faculty member at St. Michael's college who has worked with the Sudanese in the Burlington area since 2001 -- are looking for 100 or more congregations throughout the U.S. who will take part in a special day of solidarity on World Mission Sunday, February 18, 2007, by inviting them to come and tell their stories and taking up a special offering to help NESEI begin their first school next spring.
The theme for this year's World Mission Sunday -- "Proclaim God's Wondrous Deeds!" -- celebrates the participation of youth and young adults in world mission and demonstrates to people of all ages the potential of engaging a new generation in global mission. The young volunteers of NESEI offer an excellent opportunity to explore this theme. If your congregation would like to take part, email Katie Hatch at katamylu@yahoo.com by January 15, 2007.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_80574_ENG_HTM.htm _ _ _
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