Episcopal Life Online Newslink August 3, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Ecuador Episcopalians welcome Presiding Bishop * DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEW JERSEY: Sylvestre Romero named assisting bishop * WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Edmonton Bishop Victoria Matthews to resign * WORLD REPORT - RWANDA: Gahini International Convention on effective evangelism draws thousands * WORLD REPORT - UGANDA: Archbishop Orombi urges the Acholi to forgive * ARTS - Photographer drove the roads for 'signs' of faith
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TOP STORIES
Ecuador Episcopalians welcome Presiding Bishop
Jefferts Schori affirms mission focus, preparations to host Executive Council in 2008
From Staff Reports
[ENS] When the Episcopal Church's Executive Council visits Ecuador for its February 2008 meeting, members will find congregations and dioceses engaged in mission and seeking new partnerships.
Ecuador's two dioceses encompass people "whose mission is to be in solidarity with the poorest, to advocate for those who are displaced, to be present to those in greatest need," Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said upon her return from a July 12-17 pastoral visit.
The Quito-based Diocese of Ecuador Central, led by Bishop Wilfrido Ramos-Orench, will host the Executive Council members and acquaint them with local ministries in the diocese of more than 40 congregations, schools, a seminary, and local community-outreach ministries. The Council will meet February 11-14 at Quito's Hilton Colon hotel, located in the nation's capitol rising at an altitude of some 9,500 feet above sea level.
"We look forward to welcoming you back next year," Ramos told the Presiding Bishop at the conclusion of her visit, part of an 18-day itinerary with church leaders in the Episcopal Church's dioceses in Ecuador and Colombia, and in the autonomous Anglican-Episcopal Province of Brazil.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_88800_ENG_HTM.htm
A multimedia presentation and photo gallery is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
NEW JERSEY: Sylvestre Romero named assisting bishop http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_88787_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
CANADA: Edmonton Bishop Victoria Matthews to resign http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_88796_ENG_HTM.htm
RWANDA: Gahini International Convention on effective evangelism draws thousands http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_88798_ENG_HTM.htm
UGANDA: Archbishop Orombi urges the Acholi to forgive http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_88794_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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ARTS
Photographer drove the roads for 'signs' of faith
By Gary Freeman
[Episcopal News Service] For 25 years Sam Fentress recorded on film what many people only snickered at, recoiled from, or just ignored. Fentress, first with his Nikon FTn and then with his digital Canon 1Ds Mark II, road shotgun in his car aiming at placards of roadside Christian proselytizing.
His purpose as he says in his postscript was to "pay homage to the people who placed their messages in the American landscape."
Fentress realizes, too, that this is an indigenous U.S. expression. It's our wide-open fields that invite decoration or our towering water reservoirs that are seen for miles.
His book, Bible Road: Signs of Faith in the American Landscape, (David and Charles Publishers, 159 pp. $29.99) records more than 150 examples from Fentress's peregrinations. Most aren't very slick or professional, yet some look particularly snappy or clever: a Washington, D.C. stop sign under which reads "Hell Has No Exit," transported to the dead-end of a fenced yard; or the huge lighted, professional billboard in Kansas paid for by A.L.R. who had been granted a miracle by St. Jude.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_88789_ENG_HTM.htm