Episcopal Life Online Newslink June 21, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Lost Boy's journey leads to priesthood * TOP STORY - Bonnie Anderson discusses Episcopal Church's response to Windsor Report with Canadian General Synod * DIOCESAN DIGEST - COLORADO: Colorado Springs congregation calls on 'secessionists' to return parish property * DIOCESAN DIGEST - TEXAS: Diocese set to celebrate MDGs midway point * WORLD REPORT - CHINA: Episcopal Relief and Development responds to earthquake in Yunnan Province * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Oxford theological college at center of row * FEATURE - Floral felicity: Strengthened by a visit to the garden that inspired Monet
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TOP STORIES
Lost Boy's journey leads to priesthood
Zachariah Char ordained to lead Sudanese congregation in Grand Rapids
By Karen Bota
[Episcopal News Service] Zachariah Jok Char was only five years old when he walked 1,000 miles for the first time.
One of the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan, he braved the desert heat and attacks by lions and hyenas, without shelter, food, water or adult protection. The children crossed Sudan, single file, headed for safety in Ethiopia after their villages were leveled and their families murdered. They were victims of a civil war that lasted 20 years, killed more than 2 million people and displaced more than 7 million, according to the United Nations.
Char was nine when he and the others were forced across a crocodile-infested river back into Sudan after war broke out in Ethiopia. And then they walked again, another 1,000 miles to the Kakuma refugee camp in Northern Kenya, where they lived for eight years.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_87145_ENG_HTM.htm
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Bonnie Anderson discusses Episcopal Church's response to Windsor Report with Canadian General Synod
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] Bonnie Anderson, president of the Episcopal Church's House or Deputies, explained the Church's Windsor Report response during two large-group conversations June 20 at the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Anderson was part of a three-member panel which made its presentation twice during what the Synod called "conversations." The Synod's approximately 295 delegates (bishops, clergy and laity) had three choices of conversations to join. The topics included the blessing of same-gender relationships, which the Canadian church is due to consider later this week, and financial development, as well as the one titled "Windsor Report/Communion."
The other panelists were Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu, who spoke about the Church of England's response, and Dr. Patricia Bays, who explained the Anglican Church of Canada's proposed response. The Windsor Report was not issued in time for the Canadian General Synod's last meeting to respond to it and thus it is taking it up now.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_87143_ENG_HTM.htm
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
COLORADO: Colorado Springs congregation calls on 'secessionists' to return parish property http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_87128_ENG_HTM.htm
TEXAS: Diocese set to celebrate MDGs midway point http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_87124_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
CHINA: Episcopal Relief and Development responds to earthquake in Yunnan Province http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_87142_ENG_HTM.htm
ENGLAND: Oxford theological college at center of row http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_87130_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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FEATURES
Floral felicity
Strengthened by a visit to the garden that inspired Monet
By Marianne Mersereau
[Episcopal Life] "I perhaps owe the fact that I have become a painter to flowers." -- Claude Monet
"Above all," Monet also said, "I must have flowers ... always, always."
My pilgrimage to Monet's garden at Giverny in France was all about his primary obsession and mine as well. Though I don't paint flowers, I do worship, grow, cut, dry, arrange and share them. I had always longed to see the landscape that inspired Monet's paintings of water lilies, brilliant red poppies, yellow iris, roses and the famous bridge over the pond with its ever-changing light and weeping willows.
Our two children were at Camp Huston in the Cascade foothills, and my husband and I were off to the most romantic city in the world to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary. Since we had only a week in Paris, we could dedicate only one day to an excursion outside the city. My husband, being a wine connoisseur, had an interest in going to Champagne, but knowing my passion for Monet, conceded to going to Giverny instead.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_87122_ENG_HTM.htm
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