Episcopal Life Online Newslink July 26, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Hallelujah Housing: In Mississippi, ERD joins affordable housing partnership * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop of York calls for donations to flood disaster relief fund * WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Canon Peter Karanja appointed National Council of Churches general secretary * FEATURE - An American in England: Jim Rosenthal ordained deacon
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TOP STORIES
Hallelujah Housing: In Mississippi, ERD joins affordable housing partnership
[ERD] Expanding its partnership with the Diocese of Mississippi, Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) is supporting "Hallelujah Housing," a program building affordable homes along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi and ERD have entered a joint partnership with Enterprise Corporation of the Delta/Hope Community Credit Union and the Unity Homes Project to construct homes for Gulf Coast families who lost their property in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Along the Gulf Coast, 65,000 homes were destroyed by the storm. Presently, 30,000 families are still living in FEMA trailers. Affordable housing will be constructed in the coastal Mississippi counties of Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson.
After the storms, many insurance companies have not made funds available to assist in the rebuilding, particularly for low income families and the working poor who lost homes on the Gulf Coast.
"Episcopal Relief and Development is excited to expand its partnership with the Diocese of Mississippi," stated Robert W. Radtke, ERD President. "The 'Hallelujah Housing' program will help Mississippians return to their homes and allow people who have never owned property in the region to become first-time home buyers."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_88536_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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WORLD REPORT
ENGLAND: Archbishop of York issues call for donations to flood disaster relief fund http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_88530_ENG_HTM.htm
KENYA: Canon Peter Karanja appointed National Council of Churches general secretary http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_88538_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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FEATURES
An American in England: Jim Rosenthal ordained deacon
'Ardent Anglican,' 'a faithful catholic' and a 'prayerful ... but not too pious ... bureaucrat'
By Nan Cobbey
[Episcopal Life] Jim Rosenthal describes himself as an "ardent Anglican," "a faithful catholic" and a "prayerful ... but not too pious ... bureaucrat." In fact, this gregarious, cheerful, hail-fellow-well-met who left the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago 18 years ago to become director of communications for the Anglican Communion, is far more than that, and his friends -- many of them in high places -- will tell you so.
"He is an incarnation of the bonds of affection of the Anglican Communion," says Bishop Peter Lee of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.
"He interprets the church to the world and the world to the church," says former Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold.
"He's an amazing mediator for the church ... has a voice that can bring people together," says the Rev. John David Van Dooren of the Church of the Atonement in Chicago.
Those three men and several dozen other friends traveled to London four weeks ago to be present for Rosenthal's ordination to the diaconate on June 30. Friends came from the United States, Canada, Rwanda, Nigeria, Jerusalem, Russia, England, Ireland, Spain, Italy, France and Cyprus.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_88535_ENG_HTM.htm
More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm