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>Episcopal News Service
>January 21, 2010

Episcopal News Service is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens.

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Church continues to assist Haiti with aid by air and by  hand
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: Gordon's House dedicated at festive  celebration
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PITTSBURGH: Bishop Price invites parish leaders to
discuss differences
* MISSION - World Mission Sunday to highlight environmental concerns
* EDUCATION - Virginia seminary signs partnership agreement with
Tanzanian Theological College
* DAYBOOK - January 22: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Healing of America - A Global Quest for Better,
Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

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>TOP STORIES

Church continues to assist Haiti with aid by air and by hand

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Helicopters, satellite phones, a little
shared rice, prayer and the laying on of hands were all part of the
Episcopal Church's continued efforts to help the country of Haiti nine
days after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake decimated parts of the
impoverished nation.

The hardware is coming into Haiti by way of the Dominican Republic,
the Episcopal Church diocese there and Episcopal Relief & Development,
and the rice and ministering prayer is coming, in part, from the three
sisters of the Couvent Sainte Marguerite, adjacent to the cathedral
and operated by the Sisters of Saint Margaret, who have told their
Boston-based colleagues that they are staying put.

"We had some people up here ask us if the sisters were leaving and I
said that's not even a question in anybody's minds," Sister Adele
Marie, the order's assistant superior, told ENS in a telephone
interview Jan. 21. "They have no intention of leaving. They have work
to do there and they have people who are dependent upon them."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_118727_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

PITTSBURGH: Bishop Price invites parish leaders to discuss differences

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh's
provisional bishop has invited the clergy and lay leaders of 40
congregations to meet with him and discuss concerns they may have with
the Episcopal Church, according to a Jan. 21 news release from the
diocese.

Full story:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_118719_ENG_HTM.htm

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LOS ANGELES: Gordon's House dedicated at festive celebration

>By Chris Tumilty

[The Episcopal News, Diocese of Los Angeles] A quiet Westminster,
California, neighborhood welcomed more than 200 visitors on January 16
for the dedication of "Gordon's House," a new family home built by the
Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, the Henry T. Nicholas III
Foundation, and Habitat for Humanity Orange County, beginning at the
2009 General Convention of the Episcopal Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_118691_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

World Mission Sunday to highlight environmental concerns

[Episcopal News Service] The focus for 2010 World Mission Sunday,
celebrated on Sunday, Feb. 14, will be "World Mission and the
Environment."

"Observance of World Mission Sunday is an opportunity for
congregations and dioceses to participate in the wider global mission
of the church," said Michael Schut, the Episcopal Church's economic
and environmental affairs officer. "The church is always called to
care for 'the least of these,' for those whose voices are silenced.
Ecological degradation threatens more and more of those voices,
including those with whom our missionaries live and serve."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_118699_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>EDUCATION

Virginia seminary signs partnership agreement with Tanzanian Theological  College

[Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia] The Very Rev.
Ian S. Markham, dean and president of Virginia Theological Seminary,
and the Rev. Canon Moses Matonya, principal of Msalato Theological
College in Dodoma, Tanzania, signed an agreement Jan. 20 that commits
the institutions to a five-year partnership of sharing resources.

The two schools agreed to hold each other in corporate prayer; to
offer exchange programs to their faculty and students; and to jointly
host an annual Theology Conference for the pastors of the Diocese of
Central Tanganyika. The Tanzanian College will also serve as a primary
portal for admissions from Tanzania to VTS's international students'
program.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_118702_ENG_HTM.htm

More Education: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80263_93222_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On January 22, 2010, the church remembers Vincent, deacon of
Saragossa, and martyr.

* 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 January 22, 1983, Alex D. Dickson Jr. was
elected the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee.

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>CATALYST

"The Healing of America - A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and
Fairer Health Care" from Penguin Group, by T. R. Reid, 277 pages,
hardcover, c. 2009, $25.95

[Penguin Group] In his global quest to find a possible prescription,
Reid visits wealthy, free market, industrialized democracies like our
own-including France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and Canada-where he
finds inspiration in example. Reid shares evidence from doctors,
government officials, health care experts, and patients the world
over, finding that foreign health care systems give everybody quality
care at an affordable cost. And that dreaded monster "socialized
medicine" turns out to be a myth. Many developed countries provide
universal coverage with private doctors, private hospitals, and
private insurance.

In addition to long-established systems, Reid also studies countries
that have carried out major health-care reform. The first question
facing these countries-and the United States, for that matter-is an
ethical issue: Is health care a human right? Most countries have
already answered with a resolute yes, leaving the United States in the
murky moral backwater with nations we typically think of as far less
just than our own.

The Healing of America lays bare the moral question at the heart of
our troubled system, dissecting the misleading rhetoric surrounding
the health care debate. Reid sees problems elsewhere, too: He finds
poorly paid doctors in Japan, endless lines in Canada, mistreated
patients in Britain, spartan facilities in France. Still, all the
other rich countries operate at a lower cost, produce better health
statistics, and cover everybody. In the end, The Healing of America is
a good news book: It finds models around the world that Americans can
borrow to guarantee health care for everybody who needs it.

To order, please visit Episcopal Books and Resources online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, call 800-903-5544, or visit your
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