Episcopal Life Online Newslink October 11, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Native Episcopalians reflect, renew ministries at Washington gathering * TOP STORY - Episcopal Relief and Development awarded $1.5 million grant for malaria program * TOP STORY - New video multicast to air October 11 * DIOCESAN DIGEST - VIRGINIA: 'All will be well' -- Reconstituted congregations meet at Shrine Mont * WORLD REPORT - Archbishop of Canterbury welcome Muslim scholars' letter on religious dialogue * WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Bible translated into Naskapi * FEATURE - Episcopal Missionaries: serving the church and the world
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TOP STORIES
Native Episcopalians reflect, renew ministries at Washington gathering
By Jan Nunley
[Episcopal News Service] A group of twenty Native and non-Native American clergy and laity met for three days at the Cathedral College on the campus of Washington National Cathedral for the third annual Native Clergy and Lay Leadership Conference, October 8-10, 2007.
Led by national missioner Janine Tinsley-Roe, the gathering was designed to spark conversation about the state of Native ministries in the Episcopal Church and potential new directions for the future, and help Native and non-Native clergy and laity working in Native contexts develop needed individual, spiritual and cultural strength for ministry.
The gathering included three newly ordained Lakota deacons from North Dakota, including the youngest ordained person in the Episcopal Church, 22-year-old Deacon Brandon Mauai of St. Luke's Church in Fort Yates, North Dakota.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90909_ENG_HTM.htm
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Episcopal Relief and Development awarded $1.5 million grant for malaria program
[ERD] Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) is the receipient of a five-year $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Malaria Communities Program (MCP).
ERD will work in partnership with the Anglican Church of Angola to implement a malaria prevention program in Angola. The program will reach 90,896 people; including 18,179 children under five years old, 11,388 pregnant women, and 3,454 people infected with HIV/AIDS. Working in collaboration with NetsforLifeSM , the initiative will expand the use of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLITNs) by pregnant women and children under five years old, build awareness of malaria transmission and treatment, and ensure that pregnant women receive Intermittent Preventative Therapy (IPT), a prophylactic treatment that prevents malaria infection.
"Episcopal Relief and Development is honored to receive this generous grant through the President's Malaria Initiative supporting our malaria prevention program in Angola," said Robert W. Radtke, ERD President. "This program is part of our NetsforLifeSM initiative, a grassroots partnership in 16 sub-Saharan African countries that mobilizes communities to combat malaria through education, training, as well as the proper and consistent use of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90908_ENG_HTM.htm
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New video multicast to air October 11
'Episcopal Life Focus' covers churchwide news; program also offered for local cable TV placement
[Episcopal News Service] The October edition of "Episcopal Life Focus" -- a half-hour video "multicast" featuring church mission, ministries and news -- will be posted for online viewing October 11 by 8 p.m. Eastern time.
The program will remain available for on-demand viewing at Episcopal Life Online.
Produced by Episcopal Life Media, the program will feature coverage of the House of Bishops September meeting in New Orleans, the Archbishop of Canterbury's visit there, and the hands-on post-hurricane rebuilding and pastoral work offered by the bishops and spouses along the Gulf Coast.
Also featured is a profile of New Orleans Episcopalian Diana Meyers, who leads the Mobile Healthcare Ministry for St. Anna's Church, a historic parish in the city's Treme section.
The program covers the opening of the new Desmond Tutu Center for Reconciliation at New York's General Theological Seminary. The Focus program will conclude with a pastoral reflection.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90888_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
VIRGINIA: 'All will be well' -- Reconstituted congregations meet at Shrine Mont http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_90912_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
Archbishop of Canterbury welcome Muslim scholars' letter on religious dialogue http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90916_ENG_HTM.htm
CANADA: Bible translated into Naskapi
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90914_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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FEATURES
Episcopal Missionaries: serving the church and the world
By Mary Brennan
[Episcopal Life] The rich mission history of the Episcopal Church owes much of its success to two things: opportunity and innovation.
After the American Revolution, the church faced the same dilemma as the new country: how to establish itself as separate from England and still maintain its traditions. A daunting task. The American church had to set up a workable structure and constitution, craft a new prayer book, institute a process of selecting its own bishops. Yet, the call to mission was clear from the beginning.
The church of the early 19th century took on missionary work on the American frontier as well as overseas through education and medical care. In 1829, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society appointed the church's first foreign missionaries to Greece. By mid-century, the church had a missionary presence in Liberia, China and Japan. In comparison to the other Protestant churches, the Episcopal Church got off to a slow start with its missionary efforts, but the 1835 General Convention came up with two innovations that had enormous impact.
Convention declared that the church didn't just do mission, it was mission. By making the once-voluntary Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society synonymous with the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, church leaders made a ground-breaking statement regarding the role of mission in the church.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_90898_ENG_HTM.htm
More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm