Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Friday, August 10, 2007. The Church calendar remembers Laurence, deacon and martyr at Rome (c.225-258).
* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1855, F. J. (Frederick John) Foakes-Jackson, Anglican theologian, was born in Ipswich, England.
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Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin
[ENS] Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti, one of 11 overseas dioceses of the Episcopal Church, speaks about the history of his church and some of the partnerships and exchange programs with the U.S.-based Episcopal Church "that have helped the church to grow in mission."
"The Church in Haiti and the Church in the United States have given examples of how two different people can live together," says Duracin, who has served as Haiti's bishop since 1994.
The Episcopal Church in Haiti has companion links with the dioceses of Colorado, East Tennessee, Lexington, Maine, Milwaukee, Quincy, South Carolina, and Upper South Carolina.
The Episcopal Church in Haiti dates from 1861 when a group of African-Americans migrated to Haiti. Among them was James Theodore Holly of Detroit, Michigan, who established Holy Trinity parish in Port-au-Prince and missions elsewhere. Consecrated Bishop of Haiti in 1874, and serving until his death in 1911, Holly was the first African American Bishop in the Episcopal Church.
A video stream of Duracin's interview is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Zambian Journal: Cross-Cultural Encounters with Christ" from Areopagite Press, by the Rev. Dr. Dennis B. A. Berk, 358 pages, paperback, c. 2007, $9.95
[Source: Areopagite Press] Embark upon a fascinating journey into the exotic cultures of the people of Zambia as the author provides you with entry into an amazing array of cross-cultural experiences with the inhabitants of this tropical African nation.
The Rev. Dennis B. A. Berk was born in 1965 and grew up in rural Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. After completing a bachelor's degree in psychology at Wheaton College in Illinois, he moved to Ontario, Canada. There he attended seminary, at Trinity College in the University of Toronto and received a Master of Divinity degree. In 1990, he was ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada, and served as a priest in eastern Ontario for several years. Dennis returned to Pennsylvania to pursue graduate studies at Lancaster Theological Seminary, from which he received a Doctor of Ministry degree in 1998. He served for three years (from 2003 to 2006) as a missionary to tropical Africa, where he taught at a seminary in Zambia.
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