[ENS] Randall Giles, Episcopal missionary and ethnomusicologist, dies at 60

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>Episcopal News Service
>August 31, 2010

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* PEOPLE - Randall Giles, Episcopal missionary and ethnomusicologist, 
dies at 60
* DAYBOOK - September 1: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Transitional Ministry - A Time
of Opportunity"

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>PEOPLE

Randall Giles, Episcopal missionary and ethnomusicologist, dies at 60

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Randall Giles, composer, ethnomusicologist,
and an Episcopal Church missionary in India, died Aug. 27 at a
hospital in Pondicherry following a brief illness and a heart attack.
He was 60.

Since July 2000, Giles had been serving as director of the Institute
for Indian Christianity and the Arts, a center that he helped to
found.

Based in Chennai, India, Giles "shared his love for music and liturgy
in India and other parts of Asia" as a missionary of the Episcopal
Church from the Diocese of Western Massachusetts for more than 10
years, explained the Rev. David Copley, mission personnel officer for
the Episcopal Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_124270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On September 1, 2010, the church remembers David Pendleton Oakerhater,
deacon and missionary of the Cheyenne.

* 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 September 1, 1525, Martin Luther published his
defense against English King Henry VIII. On September 1, 1803, the
Massachusetts Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge was instituted
in Boston. It was the first tract society to be formed in North
America. On September 1, 1908, Lewis H. Redne, organist and active
Sunday school leader, died. He spent 19 years at Holy Trinity
Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Transitional Ministry - A Time of Opportunity" from Church
Publishing, Inc., edited by Molly Dale Smith, foreword by Loren Mead,
194 pages, paperback, c. 2009, $20

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the time following significant change. In congregations, that change
might be the departure of the pastor, a catastrophe such as Hurricane
Katrina or 9/11, or simply the changes caused by growth. Transition
calls for clergy with special training to respond to the needs
generated by the special time. "Task, training, and time limit" are
the hallmarks of transitional ministry. Trained intentional interim
clergy must have the skill and experience to lead congregations during
transition.

However, transitional or interim ministry has a bad reputation in some
places. As one diocesan leader said, "We have never had a church in
this diocese that was so bad off that an interim was needed." Indeed,
there are some "sick" churches, but most congregations have some good
things happening and some things that need attention. Intentional
interim ministry can be medicine for the sick, but in most cases it is
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This book seeks to clear up misconceptions about transitional ministry
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Chapter authors, all experts in transitional ministry in mainline
Protestant denominations, include: Robert Friedrich, John Keydel,
George Martin, Loren Mead, Barry Miller, Nancy Miller, Ineke Mitchell,
Ken Ornell, Molly Dale Smith, and Rob Voyle.

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