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>Episcopal Life Daily
>November 5, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - A taste of missionary life

* TOP STORY - Episcopalians pick five strategic goals for future
* TOP STORY - EPPN urges action on health-care reform
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - OREGON: Portland church dedicates shrine, space to
Our Lady of the Cyclists
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Anglicans probe Indian bauxite mining venture
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: A taste of missionary life
* DAYBOOK - November 6: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Between Two Worlds - Daily Readings for Advent

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>TOP STORIES

>A taste of missionary life

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] A missionary's life can be full of surprises.
When Mike Young, 24, of Abilene, Texas, signed up with the Young Adult
Services Corps (YASC) as an Episcopal Church missionary, the last
thing he expected was to be sent to
First-World-known-for-high-development-and-electronics Japan, he said.

But because of his interest in sustainability and food production, he
found himself working as a farmhand at the Asian Rural Institute, a
training center for community leaders from Southeast Asia, the Pacific
and Africa in Nasushiobara, Japan.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_116416_ENG_HTM.htm

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Episcopalians pick five strategic goals for future

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] A recently completed survey shows
Episcopalians think the church ought to focus on youth and young
adults, evangelism and elements of congregational life in the coming
years.

The survey was conducted by a strategic planning committee that the
Episcopal Church's Executive Council established in January to draft a
10-year strategic vision.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_116405_ENG_HTM.htm

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>EPPN urges action on health-care reform

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Public Policy Network (EPPN)
has issued an appeal for church members to urge Congress to pass the
Affordable Health Care for America Act of 2009.

"Health care costs have been sky rocketing. Many people don't have
access to insurance, affordable or not," a Nov. 4 EPPN alert said.
"The time for action is now."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_116399_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

OREGON: Portland church dedicates shrine, space to Our Lady of the  Cyclists

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Just two days after dedicating what is
believed to be the nation's first shrine to the patron saint of
cyclists, the Rev. Dennis Parker of St. Stephen's Church was living
into the grim reality of his Portland, Oregon church's newest
community.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_116408_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Anglicans probe Indian bauxite mining venture

>By Martin Revis

[Episcopal News Service] The Church of England is assessing the
ethical implications of a multi-million dollar investment in a company
whose planned bauxite mine in Orissa, north east India, is opposed by
conservationists.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_116412_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

>A taste of missionary life

Each year the Episcopal Church sends Young Adult Service Corps (YASC)
missionaries to serve in churches and organizations throughout the
Anglican Communion in places like Colombia, Tanzania, Hong Kong, the
Philippines, South Africa, Honduras and Haiti. The missionaries serve
in a wide-range of capacities -- farmhands, teachers, translators,
computer technicians -- and live in rural and urban settings. In this
video YASC missionaries who have recently returned to the United
States share their experiences living and working abroad.

Video: http://episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On November 6, 2009, the church remembers William Temple, Archbishop
of Canterbury (1881-1944).

* 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 November 6, 1836, Herbert Beaver, the first
Anglican priest in Oregon, arrived at Ft. Vancouver.

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>CATALYST

"Between Two Worlds - Daily Readings for Advent" from Cowley
Publications, by Kate Moorehead, foreword by Barbara C. Crafton, 130
pages, paperback, c. 2003, $9.95

[Cowley Publications] Advent -- the season in which we prepare for the
coming of the Savior -- provokes a certain ambivalence among modern
believers. We know that Christ has come in the historical person of
Jesus of Nazareth, and we live anticipating his return, knowing that
our true home is one which he has gone ahead to prepare for us. In the
meantime, we are left living between those two worlds. Moorehead uses
the witness of the scriptures, her wealth of experience in long years
of ministry, and the wisdom of her own life of prayer to guide us in
praying the ambiguity of living faithfully between "here and now" and
"there and then."

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