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> Episcopal Life Daily August 14, 2008

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> Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Katrina Remembrance Sunday set for August 31
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - CHICAGO: Barrington parish launches fundraising
effort for Sudan
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - QUINCY: Diocese offers 'resource' for making
realignment decisions
* FEATURE - Biking for ERD: New Jersey parish hosts Brake the Hunger
Cycle tour
* DAYBOOK - August 15, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Times and Seasons: Creating Transformative Worship
throughout the Year

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> TOP STORIES

> Katrina Remembrance Sunday set for August 31

> By Lisa B. Hamilton

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has
designated August 31 as Katrina Remembrance Sunday.

Hurricane Katrina, the costliest Atlantic hurricane ever, caused an
estimated $81.2 billion in damages and claimed more than 1800 lives
between August 23 and 30, 2005. Since then, thousands of relief workers
have volunteered countless hours to assist survivors throughout the Gulf
Coast regions of Louisiana and Mississippi.

"Katrina Remembrance Sunday is a way of remembering, of heralding the
vast relief work that has gone on, and of reminding that there is still
work to be done," says Neva Rae Fox, the Episcopal Church's program
officer for public affairs.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99984_ENG_HTM.htm

More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife

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> DIOCESAN DIGEST

CHICAGO: Barrington parish launches fundraising effort for Sudan

> By Joe Bjordal

When the Most Rev. Daniel Deng Bul spoke to the annual conference of the
American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan (AFRECS) in May 2008,
he described the immediate challenges he was facing as the new
archbishop of a church with 24 dioceses spread throughout Africa's
largest geographical country. At the time of the conference, Deng has
been archbishop barely a month.

He reported that upon taking office he discovered that the Episcopal
Church of Sudan, at the provincial level, was deeply in debt and that
some church officials had not been compensated for as long as three
years. The amount of the debt was equal to approximately $157,000.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_99988_ENG_HTM.htm

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QUINCY: Diocese offers 'resource' for making realignment decisions

> By Joe Bjordal and Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Quincy
(http://dioceseofquincy.org) has sent a document to all members of the
diocese aimed at answering the question of whether the diocese should
separate from the Episcopal Church.

In a cover letter, the diocesan Standing Committee said that the 35-page
document resulted from requests following a meeting last May attended by
"all priests with a parish, mission or cure" and all elected officials
of the diocese, clergy or lay. The reported purpose of the meeting was
to begin "a discernment exercise where self-selected groups were asked
to discern the following question: 'Shall the Diocese of Quincy separate
from the Episcopal Church? If so, why and how? If not, then why not?'"

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_99994_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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> FEATURES

> Biking for ERD

New Jersey parish hosts Brake the Hunger Cycle tour

> By Sondra Odian

[Episcopal Life] They came wearing bright, fluorescent-lime and
neon-orange Spandex; they came in their everyday jeans. They came with
their high-tech bicycles and their tandem bikes. They even came on their
tricycles.

They came to enjoy a pleasant ride -- and, more importantly, to make a
difference. And thanks to these participants in the Brake the Hunger
Cycle Tour, Episcopal Relief and Development received $8,000 for its
efforts to help achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs).

Parishioners at St. David's Episcopal Church in Kinnelon, New Jersey,
recently took to heart the call of the last two General Conventions,
when the Episcopal Church committed to supporting the MDGs. Leaders of
191 nations developed these goals to eradicate extreme poverty and
hunger in the world by 2015.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_99986_ENG_HTM.htm

More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm

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> DAYBOOK

On August 15, 2008, the Church calendar remembers Saint Mary the Virgin,
Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

* 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 August 15, 1977, Presiding Bishop John M. Allin
appointed Alfred Johnson as public affairs officer at the Episcopal
Church Center.

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> CATALYST

"Times and Seasons: Creating Transformative Worship throughout the Year"
from Church Publishing, Inc., by Richard Giles, 201 pages, paperback, c.
2008, $30

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Giles' gift to the church is his ability to
link how church buildings look and what happens during services to
theology. A place of static worship, where a passive audience sits in
pews, is about as far removed as you can get from the biblical concept
of the church as the pilgrim people of God, forever journeying and
'seeking a country that is to come.'  When liturgy begins to embody this
fundamental awareness, the effect is dramatic, and worship becomes a
transformative encounter in which all the senses are engaged.

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit your
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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm