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>Episcopal News Service
>August 19, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - L'Arche communities: differing abilities, one life
together
* WORLD REPORT - BURUNDI: Anglican church celebrates 75 years
* WORLD REPORT - South African archbishop calls for end to public
service strike
* PEOPLE - Tom Brackett, Episcopal Church missioner for church 
planting,
to preach on Day 1
* DAYBOOK - August 20, 2010: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Water Bugs and Dragonflies:
Explaining Death to Young Children" and "Water Bugs and Dragonflies - 
A
Coloring Book"

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>TOP STORIES

L'Arche communities: differing abilities, one life together

>By Sharon Sheridan and Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Twenty years ago, Curt Armstrong went to
France, intending to learn French and pick grapes before heading for
graduate school. He ended up becoming an assistant in a L'Arche
community, where people with and without cognitive disabilities live
together, and found a calling. Today, he and his wife - who met 
through
L'Arche - are helping to launch a new community of the worldwide,
interfaith organization in Atlanta.

L'Arche - whose name comes from the French word for "ark" - began in
1964 when Canadian Jean Vanier, acting on the advice of a Dominican
priest, invited two men with disabilities to share a home with him in
the French village of Trosly-Breuil. A community developed and 
inspired
the founding of similar communities in France, Canada and India. 
Today,
137 communities operate in 40 countries, with more planned.

Within each community, which may encompass one home or several, "core
members" with intellectual disabilities, and sometimes other 
handicaps,
share their lives with assistants and other staff under a philosophy
stressing mutuality and friendship.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_124114_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

South African archbishop calls for end to public service strike

>By Munyaradzi Makoni

[Ecumenical News International, Cape Town] South Africa's public 
service
strike is hurting hospital patients and students, and the government 
and
unions should act to end it, says the Anglican Archbishop of Cape 
Town.

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Aug. 19 called for essential staff in
institutions such as hospitals to return to work immediately.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_124120_ENG_HTM.htm
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>BURUNDI: Anglican church celebrates 75 years

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Anglican Church of Burundi kicked off its
75th anniversary celebrations during the Aug. 14-15 weekend with a
service of thanksgiving and prayer at St. Luke's Cathedral in Gitega 
and
a service of Holy Communion at St. Peter's Church in Buhiga.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_124116_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Tom Brackett, Episcopal Church missioner for church planting, to 
preach
on Day 1

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Thomas L. Brackett, an Episcopal
priest who serves as the Episcopal Church's missioner for church
planting, ministry redevelopment, and fresh expressions of church, 
will
be the featured speaker Sept. 19 on Day 1, a nationally syndicated 
radio
program.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_124117_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On August 20, the church remembers Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux.

* 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 August 20, 1965, civil rights worker Jonathan
Myrick Daniels, a white Episcopal seminarian from New Hampshire, was
shot and killed in Alabama.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Water Bugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children" by
Doris Stickney, hardcover with full color illustrations, 32 pages, Nov
2009, $18 and "Water Bugs and Dragonflies - A Coloring Book"
saddle-stitched, 24 pages, $6.50.

[The Pilgrim Press] Aimed primarily at children this book uses the
allegory of metamorphosis to assist in understanding death.

Looking for a meaningful way to explain the death of a five-year-old
friend to neighborhood children, Stickney adapted a graceful fable 
about
a water bug that left its pond and was transformed into a dragonfly. 
The
water bugs' questions about their friend's whereabouts are similar to
those questions children ask when someone dies.

With the coloring book children can now interactively experience this
wonderful story by coloring or painting the black-and-white
illustrations that fill each page. Coupled with the Water Bugs and
Dragonflies storybook, those who do ministry with children in grief 
will
find this to be an invaluable tool.

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