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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>September 3, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PITTSBURGH: Neighboring bishop suffragan nominated
to lead diocese
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - QUINCY: Congregation plans gathering of Episcopalians
* MISSION - Symposium considers theology of fisheries science
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Canterbury hosts seven Episcopal bishops for
private meeting
* WORLD REPORT - World Council of Churches issues statements on public
issues
* DAYBOOK - September 4: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Governance and Ministry - Rethinking Board Leadership

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

PITTSBURGH: Neighboring bishop suffragan nominated to lead diocese

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio Bishop
Suffragan Kenneth L. Price Jr. has been nominated to lead the Diocese
of Pittsburgh for the next several years until a permanent bishop can
be elected.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_114331_ENG_HTM.htm

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QUINCY: Congregation plans gathering of Episcopalians

[Diocese of Quincy] Members of St. George's Church in Macomb,
Illinois, who wish to remain Episcopalian will hold a service
September 13 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Macomb.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_114357_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Canterbury hosts seven Episcopal bishops for private meeting

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams held
a private meeting September 2 with seven Episcopal Church bishops at
Lambeth Palace, his London residence. The bishops attending the
meeting were Mark Lawrence of South Carolina, Gary Lillibridge of West
Texas, Edward Little of Northern Indiana, Bill Love of Albany, Michael
Smith of North Dakota, James Stanton of Dallas, and Bruce MacPherson
of Western Louisiana.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_114319_ENG_HTM.htm

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World Council of Churches issues statements on public issues

[Ecumenical News International, Geneva] The main governing body of the
World Council of Churches, its central committee, issued declarations
on several global public issues during its August 26-September 2
meeting in Geneva.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_114318_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MISSION

Symposium considers theology of fisheries science

>by Phina Borgeson

[Episcopal News Service] What is fisheries science? How does it fit in
the larger picture of science? How do the press, the church, and
policy makers influence the public understanding of fisheries science?

These are some of the questions Charles Berry, who teaches fisheries
biology at South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota,
asked as he and Sheri Potter of the American Institute of Biological
Science planned a symposium held September 2. Free and open to the
public, the full day program was part of the annual meeting of the
American Fisheries Society, held this year in Nashville, Tennessee.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_114418_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On September 4, 2009, the church remembers Paul Jones, bishop and
peace advocate (1880-1941)

* 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 September 4, 1948, the first assembly of the
World Council of Churches concluded in Amsterdam.

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>CATALYST

"Governance and Ministry - Rethinking Board Leadership" from The Alban
Institute, by Dan Hotchkiss, foreword by James B. Lemler, 249 pages,
paperback, c. 2009, $17

[The Alban Institute] In Governance and Ministry, Alban Institute
senior consultant Dan Hotchkiss offers congregational leaders a
roadmap and tools for changing the way boards and clergy work together
to lead congregations. Hotchkiss demonstrates that the right
governance model is the one that best enables a congregation to
fulfill its mission--to achieve both the outward results and the
inward quality of life to which it is called.

Resources on governance for the nonprofit sector have burgeoned over
the past decade, and this book translates some of what is most helpful
from that world for clergy and lay leaders. It also recognizes that in
some ways congregations are unique and need governance structures and
processes different from those that work in other organizations.
Leaders must continually balance the conserving function of an
institution with the expectation of disruptive, change-inducting
creativity that comes when individuals peek past the temple veil and
catch fresh visions of the Holy.

Governance in congregations is not the science of achieving optimal
results through organizational re-engineering. Governance is an
expressive art, like preaching. The forms of our congregations must
reflect the values and perceptions of the sacred at their heart.
Congregations need skills and methods for negotiating "our way" of
governance and for passing the torch effectively to new leaders.

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