Episcopal Life Online Newslink November 15, 2007
Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.
Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - 'Episcopal Life Focus' features Native American, inter-Anglican partnerships * DIOCESAN DIGEST - CALIFORNIA: San Francisco Bay devastated by massive oil spill; Grace Cathedral issues prayer call * WORLD REPORT - ERD's tsunami recovery to continue in 2008 * FEATURE - Rebuilding urban America: New Orleans
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TOP STORIES
'Episcopal Life Focus' features Native American, inter-Anglican partnerships
[Episcopal News Service] The November edition of "Episcopal Life Focus" -- a half-hour video "multicast" featuring church mission, ministries and news -- is posted for online viewing at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_89777_ENG_HTM.htm.
In observance of Native American Indian Heritage Month, the program features coverage of the New Jamestown Covenant Summit in Williamsburg, Virginia, which marks the beginning of the Episcopal Church's second Decade of Remembrance, Recognition, and Reconciliation (2007-2017) with the First Nations of the Americas, according to a resolution adopted by the 75th General Convention.
Included are portions of the opening Eucharist at Historic Jamestown on November 1, which drew Native and non-Native Episcopalians from 28 dioceses, representing 39 tribes, as well as an in-depth interview with Bishop Mike Smith of North Dakota about ministry by and for Native peoples and its significance for the wider Church.
This month's Focus introduces a new segment, Congregation Closeup, which profiles Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, one of the oldest Episcopal congregations in the United States. Congregation Closeup will alternate with the ONE Episcopalian segment introduced in the October edition.
Also featured is the Executive Council's latest meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, with an emphasis on the mission and ministry of the Episcopal Church's covenant partners in Brazil, Central America, Liberia, Mexico and the Philippines.
The Focus program concludes with a pastoral reflection by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.
The program is produced by Michael Collins and anchored by the Rev. Jan Nunley, executive editor of Episcopal Life Media.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_91913_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
CALIFORNIA: San Francisco Bay devastated by massive oil spill; Grace Cathedral issues prayer call http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_91907_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
ERD's tsunami recovery to continue in 2008
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_91908_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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FEATURES
Rebuilding urban America: New Orleans
By Pat McCaughan
[Episcopal Life] Rebuilding in New Orleans and other Gulf Coast cities can become a model for urban America, Dr. Eugene "Gus" Newport told the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops -- speaking from his perspective as a veteran community planner, visiting fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and former mayor of Berkeley, California.
"I have never seen such devastation, and I've been in war zones," Newport told a September 23 gathering of bishops and spouses about his first few weeks in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Newport is the program director for the Vanguard Public Foundation, a San Francisco-based foundation which seeks an end to racism, and promotes civil rights, economic justice, gender equality, community empowerment, and the strengthening of public education.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_91906_ENG_HTM.htm
More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm