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>Episcopal Life Daily
>October 8, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Council concludes first meeting of triennium by living
into discernment
* TOP STORY - Executive Council notes concern with covenant's
disciplinary section
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SOUTHERN OHIO: Green Seeds conference equips
churches to help save the planet
* MISSION - Ordained women in Province VIII gather for first time
* MISSION - Around One Table report explores church's identity, mission
* DAYBOOK - October 9: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Ripe Fields - The Promise and Challenge of Latino Ministry

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>TOP STORIES

Council concludes first meeting of triennium by living into discernment

Members spend last sessions getting down to business

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- Memphis, Tennessee] On the final day of its
Oct. 5-8 meeting here the Episcopal Church's Executive Council got
down to the nitty gritty of its work by considering resolutions from
its newly formed committees.

The council has formally divided its work into five new standing  committees
called Local Ministry and Mission (LMM), Advocacy and Networking for  Mission
(ANM), World Mission (WM), Governance and Administration for Mission  (GAM)
and Finances for Mission (FFM).

"The fact that we discerned what committees needed to exist to do the
work and who needed to be on which committees and who needed to offer
leadership on those committees is an example of trusting in the spirit
to work things out," Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told
the council near the end of the October 8 sessions.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_115419_ENG_HTM.htm
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Executive Council notes concern with covenant's disciplinary section

Response to communion outlines divergent views on current draft

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church's Executive Council said
October 8 that the majority of the General Convention deputations and
individual deputies that expressed an opinion do not support the
disciplinary process outlined in the latest draft of a proposed
Anglican covenant.

The comment came in the council's official response to the Ridley
Cambridge Draft, which the members said addresses "some of the most
difficult matters and substance relating to such a covenant."

The Anglican Communion's provinces were asked for specific comments on
the draft's Section Four, which contains a dispute-resolution process.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_115409_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

SOUTHERN OHIO: Green Seeds conference equips churches to help save the
planet

>By Ariel Miller

[Diocese of Southern Ohio] When Michael Schut was doing graduate
studies in environmental science, he was the only identified Christian
in the program.

"Others saw the Christian view as bankrupt and homocentric, a cause of
the problem," Schut, the Episcopal Church's associate program officer
for economic and environmental affairs, told those gathered Oct. 3 in
rural London, Ohio, for Green Seeds, a conference equipping Christians
with spiritual, economic and technological tools to reverse climate
change.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_115396_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Ordained women in Province VIII gather for first time

'The power behind us is greater than the task ahead of us'

>By Hailey McKeefry Delmas

[Episcopal News Service] Close to 100 women ordained in the Episcopal
Church and serving in Province VIII gathered recently to rejoice in
the work of women in the church during the province's first-ever
Imagine Conference.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_115410_ENG_HTM.htm
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Around One Table report explores church's identity, mission

[Episcopal Church Office of Communications] A report that affects how
Episcopalians look at their church has been released with plans for
future use.

The report, called "Around One Table," highlights the many attributes
and feelings that are common to Episcopalians. "Around One Table is a
multi-layered initiative designed to engage people in constructive
conversations about the identity and mission of the Episcopal Church
and how that relates to their lives and ministries," the report says.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_115418_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On October 9, 2009, the church remembers Robert Grosseteste, bishop of
Lincoln (c. 1175-1253).

* 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 October 9, 1845, English churchman John Henry
Newman, leader of the Oxford Movement, made his celebrated conversion
from Anglicanism to the Roman Catholic Church.

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>CATALYST

"Ripe Fields - The Promise and Challenge of Latino Ministry" from
Church Publishing, Inc., by Juan Oliver, 145 pages, paperback, c.
2009, $20

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Timed to be launched at 2009 General
Convention, Juan Oliver definitive look at the history and potential
future of Latino ministry in the Episcopal Church comes at an
opportune time. With Latino ministries growing around the country in
all traditions, and with increasing resource and programmatic
offerings being allocated to serve those communities, this highly
descriptive handbook profiles the culture, faith, and importance of
this emerging minority.
Within the book chapters, Oliver surveys topical areas, such as:

>Who/What is a Latino?

>Latino Biblical Interpretation

>Worship in a Latino congregation

>The spiritual lives of Latinos

>Latino authority and governance

>Latino administration and stewardship

>The Latino priest: Factotum or Specialist?

>The Latino deacon

>The Latino bishop

>Non-Latinos in Latino ministry

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http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit
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