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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>Episcopal Life Daily
>March 2, 2009

Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Pastoral visitors appointed by Archbishop of Canterbury
* TOP STORY - Network members support expanded role for Anglican women
* MISSION - NetsforLife distributes millionth net to eliminate malaria
in sub-Saharan Africa
* PEOPLE - Ruth Meyers named CDSP's Hodges-Haynes professor of liturgics
* DAYBOOK - March 3, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Way We Were: A Story of Conversion and Renewal

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>TOP STORIES

Pastoral visitors appointed by Archbishop of Canterbury

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] An initial group of pastoral visitors has
been named by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to assist in
healing and reconciliation given the current tensions in the Anglican
Communion.
Those appointed by Williams to the pastoral visitors team are:

* the Rt. Rev. Santosh Marray, bishop of Seychelles (Indian Ocean);
* the Rt. Rev. Colin Bennetts, retired bishop of Coventry (England);
* the Rt. Rev. Simon Chiwanga, retired bishop of Mpwapwa (Tanzania)
and former chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council;
* Major General Tim Cross, a retired British soldier who was the
U.K.'s senior-most officer involved in the Pentagon's post-war
planning in Iraq;
* Canon Chad Gandiya, Africa desk officer for the U.K.-based mission
organization USPG; and
* the Very Rev. Justin Welby, dean of Liverpool Cathedral (England).

The Anglican primates, at their February 1-5 meeting in Alexandria,
Egypt, affirmed the recommendations of the Windsor Continuation Group
and called for the development of a "pastoral council" and the
appointment of "pastoral visitors."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_105528_ENG_HTM.htm

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Network members support expanded role for Anglican women

>ENS Staff

[Episcopal News Service] Noting that women make up just six percent of
the Anglican Communion's top decision-makers, the International
Anglican Women's Network urged at its February 22-27 meeting in New
York City that the worldwide church study the role of women and find
ways to empower female leadership.

Representatives of 30 of the 38 Anglican provinces (national or
regional groupings of national churches) and the network's steering
committee met in person for the first time since the network, which
represents 40 million Anglican women in 165 countries, was formed in
1996.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_105541_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

NetsforLife distributes millionth net to eliminate malaria in sub-Saharan
Africa

[Episcopal News Service] Three years after delivering the first
long-lasting insecticide-treated net to a remote community in rural
Zambia, NetsforLifeR has concluded Phase 1 of its implementation by
distributing its millionth net.

A collaborative partnership of ExxonMobil Foundation, Standard
Chartered Bank, Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, Starr International
Foundation, White Flowers Foundation and Episcopal Relief &
Development, NetsforLifeR implements integrated malaria prevention
through a network of local faith-based organizations and NGOs in 17
countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The program is managed and monitored
by ERD in 15 countries and by Christian Aid in two.

"Sleeping under an insecticide-treated net dramatically reduces
malaria transmission, but because so few people have access to nets
the disease remains a scourge of sub-Saharan Africa, the epicenter of
86% of the world's 247 million annual cases. Nearly a million people
die each year from malaria, 91% in Africa," an ERD release said. "More
than 75% of those who become sick and die are children under the age
of five. This disease causes needless death and suffering, and
cripples development on the continent."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_105529_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>PEOPLE

Ruth Meyers named CDSP's Hodges-Haynes professor of liturgics

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Dr. Ruth Meyers has been named as
the Hodges-Haynes Professor of Liturgics at Church Divinity School of
the Pacific (CDSP), effective July 1, 2009.

Meyers has taught liturgy at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
since 1995. She earned her Master of Divinity degree from Seabury, and
her M.A. in theology (1989) and Ph.D. in liturgical history (1992)
from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Meyers is currently on
sabbatical leave from Seabury-Western.

"Ruth brings rich knowledge and experience of liturgics, seminary life
and the Episcopal Church to this position, and we look forward to her
arrival," said Donn F. Morgan, president and dean of CDSP.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_105531_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On March 3, 2009, the church calendar remembers John and Charles
Wesley, priests.

* 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 March 3, 1883, Leighton George Hayne, hymnist, died.

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>CATALYST

"The Way We Were: A Story of Conversion and Renewal" from Orbis Books,
by Joan Chittister, 253 pages, paperback, c. 2006, $18

[Orbis Books] Drawing on the story of her own monastic community, a
best-selling author shows how to redefine the essentials of faith in a
time when old ways and formulas no longer serve.

"Here is a story of resistance, confusion, and fear that sometimes
teeters on the verge of collective despair; a narrative of struggle,
groping in the dark, and grasping at straws; but from the beginning an
epic endowed with courage, vision, relentless exploration and
significant breakthroughs ... All of us can draw hope and inspiration
from this remarkable story." -- Diarmuid O'Murchu

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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm

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