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Daybook -- Today is Friday, March 16, 2007, in Lent.
* 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 1072, Adalbert, Archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg died. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalbert_of_Hamburg
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Audio: TEAM presentations, addresses, interviews available
[ENS] Some of the presentations from the Towards Effective Anglican Mission (TEAM) conference, meeting March 7-14 in Boksburg, South Africa, are available as audio streams below. Full coverage of the TEAM conference is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_23466_ENG_HTM.htm.
Also available as audio are Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's closing address, an interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, and a short media briefing following a meeting between Williams and South Africa's president Thabo Mbeki.
Meeting at the Birchwood Conference Centre near Johannesburg, TEAM welcomed more than 400 people from 30 of the Anglican Communion's 38 provinces to review the church's response to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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March 14
Presiding Bishop tells conference to carry out prophetic witness
At the March 14 closing session of the Towards Effective Anglican Mission (TEAM) conference, which has described itself, in part, as an international conference on prophetic witness, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told the participants that they stand in a long line of Jewish and Christian -- including Anglican -- prophets.
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/KJS_TEAM.mp3
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March 12
HIV/AIDS, malaria are connected, must be treated together, TEAM conference told
HIV/AIDS and malaria must be fought with education, openness and better access to medical care, four speakers told the Towards Effective Anglican Mission (TEAM) conference on March 12, the sixth day of its eight-day meeting in Boksburg, South Africa. All four speakers -- Nomusa Njoko, one of the first women to disclose her HIV-positive status in Africa; Dr. Peter Okaalet of MAP International; Olaposi Abiola of Nigeria's One Village Foundation; and Peter McOdida, the Kenya officer for International Medical Corps -- discussed the role the church can play in the battle, and all called for greater openness on the part of faith-based communities.
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/3-12_Panel.mp3
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March 11
Children's wellbeing at root of poverty reduction, women say
Dr. Debby Watson told the TEAM conference March 11 that when she talks with poor children about why schools are important to them, they tell her that they make friends and happy memories in school, that school feeds them and gives them hope, and that they think school can help them not be poor. She suggested that the same might be said about churches, adding that churches could provide all these things for children.
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/Watson.mp3
The Rev. Diana Nkesiga, vicar of All Saints Anglican Cathedral in Kampala, Uganda, told the TEAM conference March 11 that churches have a vital role to play in helping children and adults move through grief.
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/Diana.mp3
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March 10
Michael Lapsley says forgiveness, restorative justice are central to conflict resolution
Healing and reconciliation are integral to the journey of forgiveness, the Rev. Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest who serves as the director of the Institute for the Healing of Memories based in Cape Town, South Africa, told the TEAM conference gathered in Boksburg March 10.
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/Lapsley.mp3
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March 10
Northern Uganda bishop Onono-Onweng says education will provide the path to dignity
Bishop Nelson Onono-Onweng of the Anglican Diocese of Northern Uganda told the TEAM conference March 10 that education is at the heart of rebuilding his conflict-torn region.
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/Onono-Onweng.mp3
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March 9
Speakers set MDGs in theological context
Steve de Gruchy, who teaches at the School of Religion and Theology at University of KwaZulu-Natal, told the TEAM conference March 9 that "rich companies, rich people, rich nations and, I have to say, rich churches stand in judgment against us" when contrasted with the extreme poverty in the world.
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/deGruchy.mp3
Hellen Wangusa, Anglican Observer at the United Nations, said in her response to Shetty's presentation that Anglicanism's theological emphasis on the incarnation and the importance of embodiment fits well with the MDGs' concern about people's physical well-being.
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/Wangusa.mp3
Salil Shetty, UN director of the Millennium Campaign
Churches are one of the few organizations that get in touch with their constituencies every week, said Salil Shetty, director of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals campaign, to the TEAM conference March 9.
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/Shetty.mp3
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March 9
South Africa's president Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams meet
South Africa's president Thabo Mbeki reinforced his dedication to continuing partnership between his government and the Anglican Church during a March 9 meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, and Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Southern Africa. In this audio stream, Mbeki and Williams address the media March 9 following their meeting. Requested by Ndungane and attended by the president's director general, Frank Chikane, the meeting was held at the president's residence in Pretoria, about 60 kilometers from Boxburg where more than 400 Anglicans were attending the TEAM conference.
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/Mbeki.mp3
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March 8
Archbishop of Canterbury delivers keynote address in Boksburg, South Africa
A world where no one is forgotten, no one is invisible, "is a world in which God's promise has been fulfilled," Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told TEAM delegates during his keynote address March 8 in Boksburg, South Africa.
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/TEAM_ABC.mp3
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March 8
Archbishop of Cape Town urges TEAM conference to answer God's call to mission
Cape Town Archbishop and Primate of Southern Africa Njongonkulu Ndungane told the TEAM conference March 8 that God had called the participants to Boksburg, South Africa. "We hear and we respond because we serve a God who hears the cries of the oppressed," Ndungane said in his opening address to the TEAM conference. "God, my friends, hears and he acts and he acts through the mission of the Church and God acts through people like you and me."
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/TEAM_Ndungane.mp3
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March 6
Interview: Archbishop of Canterbury upholds MDGs among Communion's top priorities
In an interview with Episcopal News Service March 6, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, who attended the TEAM conference as a keynote speaker, offered some perspectives ahead of the gathering about the mission priorities for the Anglican Communion.
Full audio: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/audio/ens/ABC_1-2.mp3
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Catalyst: "Motherhood in the Balance: Children, Career, Me, and God" from Morehouse Publishing, by Catherine Wallace, 272 pages, paperback, c. 2001, $14.95
[Source: Morehouse Publishing] -- Juggling the daily demands of career and motherhood is challenging for many of today's working women. When the question of spirituality is raised they may feel as if they've dropped the ball. In Motherhood in the Balance, Catherine Wallace recounts her ordinary, and often hilarious, endeavors to stay sane as she learns to balance the demands of her career with the needs of her family, while adeptly describing the struggles of her relationship with God. Wallace examines her own encounters with a witty and persistent God who thinks that the real problem is not career-vs-kids, but call. This stand-off begins to crumble when a truce is called and the author realizes that nothing can separate us from the love of God.
To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at http://www.episcopalbookstore.org or call 800-903-5544.
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