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>Episcopal News Service
>June 23, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEBRASKA: Fremont clergy consider impact, pastoral  
response following immigration vote
* PEOPLE - Haiti missionary asked to end service to diocese as recovery  
transitions
* PEOPLE - Thomas Ferguson named ecumenical and interreligious relations  
officer
* OPINION - Fight poverty with the Economic Justice Loan Fund
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS - June 27, 2010 - Fifth Sunday After Pentecost,  Proper 
8 - Year C
* DAYBOOK - June 24: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Spanish Resources Package / El Paquete del Recursos  Español"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

NEBRASKA: Fremont clergy consider impact, pastoral response following  
immigration vote

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Jay Gabb was "disappointed" but  realistic 
June 22, a day after voters approved an ordinance to bar  undocumented 
immigrants from renting, residing or working in Fremont,  Nebraska.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123084_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Haiti missionary asked to end service to diocese as recovery transitions

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] As the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti enters a new  phase 
of post-earthquake rebuilding, the Rev. Lauren Stanley, the  Episcopal 
Church-appointed missionary who has been Bishop Jean Zaché  Duracin's liaison 
in the United States, is no longer to be involved in  those efforts.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_123081_ENG_HTM.htm

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Thomas Ferguson named ecumenical and interreligious relations officer

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Thomas Ferguson has been named as  ecumenical 
and interreligious relations officer for the Episcopal  Church, according to a 
June 23 announcement from the Office of Public  Affairs.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_123080_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

Fight poverty with the Economic Justice Loan Fund

>By W.B. McKeown

[Episcopal News Service] Ever since Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts  Schori 
mentioned the Economic Justice Loan Fund during the church's  domestic poverty 
conference this spring in Newark, New Jersey, people  have been asking me to 
tell them about the fund.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_123079_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm

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>CALENDAR

A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan  
conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available at  
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/calendar.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

June 27, 2010 - Fifth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 8 - Year C

>By the Rev. Kirk Alan Kubicek

(RCL) 1 Kings 19: 15-16, 19-21; Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20; Galatians 5:1,  13-25; 
Luke 9: 51-62

[Sermons That Work] Listen to the way Eugene Peterson translates Psalm  77 in 
The Message:

"I yell out to my God, I yell with all my might, I yell at the top of my  
lungs. He listens.
I found myself in trouble and went looking for my Lord;

>my life was an open wound that wouldn't heal.

When friends said, 'Everything will turn out all right,'

>I didn't believe a word they said.

>I remember God - and shake my head.

>I bow my head - then wring my hands.

>I'm awake all night - not a wink of sleep;

>I can't even say what's bothering me.

>I go over the days one by one,

>I ponder the years gone by.

>I strum my lute all through the night,

>wondering how to get my life together.
>Will the Lord walk off and leave us for good?

>Will he never smile again?

>Is his love worn threadbare?

>Has his salvation promise burned out?

>Has God forgotten his manners?

>Has he angrily stalked off and left us?

'Just my luck,' I said. 'The High God goes out of business

just the moment I need him.'"

How many times have we felt like the poet? How many times have we felt  bereft, 
abandoned, hopeless? How many times do we face the dark  sleepless night of 
despair?

Full reflection:  
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_122746_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On June 24, 2010, the church remembers Nativity of St. John the Baptist.

* 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 June 24, 1579, the first Anglican service was  held in 
the Americas. Francis Fletcher, sailing with Sir Francis Drake,  read from the 
Book of Common Prayer in California.

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>EBAR PICK

"Spanish Resources Package / El Paquete del Recursos Español" by  Forward 
Movement $9.

[Forward Movement] Este paquete incluye los 18 panfletos en español  publicados 
por Forward Movement. En él se encontrarán temas de sumo  interés, como: la 
eucaristía, el matrimonio, la sanidad, oración,  historia de la iglesia, juntas 
parroquiales. Este paquete incluye:

A definitive collection of Forward Movement's 18 Spanish-language  pamphlets 
and our new booklet on the sacraments. Pamphlets explore  joining the Episcopal 
Church, vestries, church customs and history,  prayers, the Eucharist, 
marriage, stewardship, and an outline of the  faith. 18 items. Contains one (1) 
each of the following:

>--Algunas sobre la Iglesia Episcopal
>(Some Questions About the Episcopal Church)
>--Bienvenidos a la Iglesia Episcopal
>(The Episcopal Church Welcomes You)
>--Bosquejo de la Fe
>(An Outline of the Faith)
>--Costumbres de la Iglesia
>(Church Customs)
>--Cuestiones generales sobre la Biblia
>(A Guide to the Bible)
>--Devoción mariana en la Iglesia
>(How the Church Views Mary)
>--Episcopales
>(Episcopalians)
>--Historia y Reforma de la Iglesia Anglicana
>(History and Reform of Anglicanism)
>--La Iglesia Episcopal y la Comunion Anglicana
>(The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion)
>--El Libro de Oración Común
>(The Book of Common Prayer)
>--¿Qué es una Congragación?
>(What is a Congregation?)
>--¿Qué es una Diócesis?
>(What is a Diocese?)
>--¿Qué es una Junta Parroquial?
>(What is a Vestry?)
>--Reflexiones Sobre el Diezmo y la Mayordomia
>(Thoughts on Stewardship)
>--El rosario anglican
>(The Anglican Rosary)
>--Los Sacramentos: simbolos de santificación
>(The Sacraments: Symbols of the Sacred)
>--Los Santos en el cuerpo de la Iglesia
>(The Saints and the Church)
>--Temas de Orientacion Prematrimonial
>(Preparing for Marriage)

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