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>Episcopal Life Daily
>July 19, 2008

Episcopal Life Online is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Bishops say Lambeth retreat set strong foundation for
conference
* TOP STORY - Lambeth Conference Daily Account: El Camino Real Bishop  Mary
Gray-Reeves and Chicago Bishop Jeffrey Lee
* TOP STORY - Preparing congregations for mission is focus of Black
Ministries Triennial Conference
* MULTIMEDIA - Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at Lambeth Conference
ecumenical service
* MULTIMEDIA - Lambeth bishops reflect on three-day retreat
* PEOPLE - Ben Chandler to lead development office at Seminary of the
Southwest
* DAYBOOK - July 20, 2008: Today in Prayer for Lambeth

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>TOP STORIES

Bishops say Lambeth retreat set strong foundation for conference

Daily Bible study also seen as key to relationship-building

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] After spending the first three days of the 2008
Lambeth Conference in Bible study and retreat, many participants say  they
have a strong foundation for the remaining two weeks of the gathering.

"We're at a place in our lives now where we're ready to start talking  about
the issues of life that we have in the Anglican Communion," said Diocese  of
Los Angeles Bishop Jon Bruno after the bishops' retreat ended at midday  on
July 19.

"This retreat has set the foundation for us to build the building blocks  of
love, compassion, grace and understanding," he added. "The only way that
that would be disabled or derailed is if people go to places within them  of
their own personal agendas, that they become ideological idolaters, and  that
they move to a place of hatred, rather than a place of love."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99128_ENG_HTM.htm

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Lambeth Conference Daily Account: El Camino Real Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves  and
Chicago Bishop Jeffrey Lee

[Episcopal News Service] Bishops Mary Gray-Reeves of El Camino Real and
Jeffrey Lee of Chicago offer the following Daily Account as the bishops
attending the 2008 Lambeth Conference concluded their three-day retreat  July
19.

Daily Account: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99124_ENG_HTM.htm

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Preparing congregations for mission is focus of Black Ministries  Triennial
Conference

>By Daphne Mack

[Episcopal News Service] The development of a strategic plan that will  help
congregations prepare for their role in God's mission in the world will  be
the focus of Black Ministries 8th Triennial Conference, set for October
19-23 at the Intercontinental New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans,  Louisiana.

The conference, with the theme "Grant Us Wisdom, Grant Us Courage: For  the
Living of these Days" will bring diverse groups together to identify
challenges facing black and multicultural congregations and blacks in
predominantly white congregations, while exploring best practices and
life-giving details to continue the work of the New Ventures Task Force,
which was charged with developing the strategic plan. In consultation  with
Bishop Michael Curry of the Diocese of North Carolina and Bishop  Suffragan
Chester Talton of the Diocese of Los Angeles, the task force has been
gathering information since June 20, 2007.

The Rev. Canon Angela Ifill, program officer for Black Ministries,  explained
that the idea for the strategic plan was born following attendance at a
Start Up! Start Over! (SUSO) seminar. She said that she and the Rev.
Carleton Hayden, assisting priest at St. Georges, Washington, DC and the
Rev. Robert Wright, rector, St. Paul's, Atlanta, Georgia, thought of a
design to bring to congregations that may not have the resources to send  a
representative to SUSO.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99110_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at Lambeth Conference ecumenical  service

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams  preached
during a July 19 service at the University of Kent, where ecumenical  guests
joined bishops and their spouses at the 2008 Lambeth Conference.

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_97371_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Lambeth bishops reflect on three-day retreat

[Episcopal News Service] In a series of interviews with Episcopal Life
Media, bishops attending the 2008 Lambeth Conference in Canterbury  reflected
on the three-day retreat that concluded July 19.

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_97371_ENG_HTM.htm

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm

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>PEOPLE

Ben Chandler to lead development office at Seminary of the Southwest

[Seminary of the Southwest] The Seminary of the Southwest in Austin,  Texas,
has named Ben Chandler as vice president for institutional advancement.

Chandler will be responsible for raising money to support the seminary's
mission. The Seminary of the Southwest is one of 11 accredited  seminaries in
the Episcopal Church.

He previously worked in the development office of the Liberal Arts  College
at the University of Texas, and in a similar capacity at the College of
William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_99129_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 20, 2008...

* Today in Prayer for Lambeth: Raise up a joyous Spirit-led fellowship  as
hosts, bishops and spouses hear the Word of God and share the Body and  Blood
of Christ in the opening Eucharist of the 2008 Lambeth Conference.