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>Episcopal News Service
>June 24, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Presiding bishop commences visit to Australia, New Zealand
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - HAITI: Clergy and their families strengthened for
the journey ahead
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SOUTH DAKOTA: Several Pine Ridge congregations
experiencing revival
* MULTIMEDIA: Video - Southern Africa Archbishop Makgoba speaks about
Haiti response
* PEOPLE - Meech chosen as Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership
interim director
* OPINION - Education for God's mission
* DAYBOOK - June 25: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Transforming Preaching"

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>TOP STORIES

Presiding bishop commences visit to Australia, New Zealand

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The Anglican churches in Australia and New
Zealand are hosting Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori for an
informal two-week visit to the two provinces.

"I'm to speak with people there about their conversations around human
sexuality and also about their missionary development work -- not in
the sense of finances but in the sense of leadership development and
theological education," Jefferts Schori told members of Executive
Council during their June 16-18 meeting in Maryland. "We're also going
to have a conversation about the work that they're doing around the
Millennium Development Goals, and, obviously, our relationships within
the Anglican Communion."

Neva Rae Fox, the Episcopal Church's program officer for public
affairs, said the trip, which has been in the planning stages for more
than a year, is all about building relationships.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_123101_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

HAITI: Clergy and their families strengthened for the journey ahead

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] "Kouraj pou vwayaj la -- Ayiti. (Strength for
the Journey -- Haiti)," a four-day conference for Episcopal Diocese of
Haiti clergy and their families, is underway in Santo Domingo in the
neighboring Dominican Republic.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123100_ENG_HTM.htm

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SOUTH DAKOTA: Several Pine Ridge congregations experiencing revival

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] There's a new spirit in the Episcopal Diocese
of South Dakota and it's helping to breathe fresh life into several
congregations on the Pine Ridge Reservation, the Rev. Robert Two Bulls
Sr. said recently.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123109_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Meech chosen as Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership interim  director

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Michelle Meech has been chosen as
interim director of the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership
(CALL), Church Divinity School of the Pacific's continuing-education
program.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_123106_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Video: Southern Africa Archbishop Makgoba speaks about Haiti response

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of the Anglican
Church of Southern Africa reflects on his March visit to Haiti and the
church's response to the magnitude-7 earthquake that devastated the
country.

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

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>OPINION

>Education for God's mission

>By George Woodward

[Episcopal News Service] Desmond Tutu once said "We are all
missionaries or we are nothing," and in that spirit 75 lay and
ordained Episcopalians gathered at Virginia Theological Seminary in
early June to consider the nature of collaborative mission in the 21st
century church.

The three-day event, titled "Educating All Ages for God's Mission:
Living the New Life of Baptism," was co-sponsored by the Global
Episcopal Mission Network and Episcopal Partnership for Global Mission
--  complimentary mission-focused organizations emerging in the early
1990s in response to initiatives from General Convention and the
Executive Council of the Episcopal Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_123103_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On June 25, 2010...

* 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 25, 1115, Bernard founded a monastery at
Clairvaux, France, that would soon become the center of the Cistercian
religious order.

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>EBAR PICK

"Transforming Preaching" by Ruthanna B. Hooke, paperback, 168 pages,
c. April 2010, $16.

[Church Publishing] At once "travel guide" and vision for the future,
the Transformation series is good news for the Episcopal Church at a
time of fast and furious demographic and social change. Series
contributors - recognized experts in their fields - analyze our
present plight, point to the seeds of change already at work
transforming the church, and outline a positive new way forward. What
kinds of churches are most ready for transformation? What are the
essential tools? What will give us strength, direction, and purpose to
the journey?

Preaching is one of the more "transformable" aspects of the church's
life. Performance teacher Ruthanna Hooke, writing for both clergy and
lay leaders, delivers the good and bad news about Episcopalians and
preaching. She explains why preaching is more difficult than ever
today, and provides essential models and spiritual practices in order
to transform both the creators of preaching and its listeners as both
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