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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>Episcopal Life Daily
>April 30, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Bulletin inserts for Mother's Day focus on ECW's efforts
for New Orleans moms
* TOP STORY - Anglican Indigenous Network discusses climate change,
full partnership
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - ALASKA: Three years after a fire, Holy Trinity
parishioners set to return
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Pope expresses sorrow for residential school abuse
* DAYBOOK - May 1, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Cohabiting Couples & Cold Feet: A Practical
Marriage-Preparation Guide for Clergy

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>TOP STORIES

Bulletin inserts for Mother's Day focus on ECW's efforts for New Orleans
moms

Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts for May 10, Mother's Day, tell
of the Episcopal Church Women's project to raise funds and awareness
for the Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative in New Orleans,
Louisiana, that helps provide homes for working families, many of them
headed by single mothers.

Download bulletin inserts here:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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Anglican Indigenous Network discusses climate change, full partnership

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] With the active Kilauea volcano spewing steam
nearby, the Anglican Indigenous Network (AIN) met April 24-26 on the
island of Hawaii and called upon Anglican Communion member churches
"to recognize and honor the wisdom of the elders by ensuring they are
an integral part of all official climate change planning and
development processes."

"This is a good place to be talking about global climate change ...
indigenous people are feeling the first effects of global warming,
whether Anglican or not," said Malcolm Chun, Secretary General of the
network, in a telephone interview from the Kilauea Military Camp
Recreation Center, the location of the conference.

About 25 delegates from Australia, Canada, the United States and New
Zealand attended the 11th biennial gathering. They released a final
statement acknowledging belief that "God is leading us to a turning
point in our histories, toward full partnership between indigenous
minorities living in our respective homelands."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_107174_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

ALASKA: Three years after a fire, Holy Trinity parishioners set to return

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Three years after fire destroyed historic
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Juneau, Alaska, the congregation is
eager to return home from their "location in exile."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_107176_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Pope expresses sorrow for residential school abuse

>By Staff

[Anglican Journal] Pope Benedict XVI met privately with a delegation
of Canadian native people on April 29 and expressed his sorrow for the
suffering of native children in Canadian residential schools.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_107170_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On May 1, 2009, the church calendar remembers Saint Philip and Saint James.

* 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 May 1, 1976, Edmond Lee Browning was elected
Bishop of Hawaii at a special convention of the diocese.  Browning
later became the 24th Presiding Bishop.

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>CATALYST

"Cohabiting Couples & Cold Feet: A Practical Marriage-Preparation
Guide for Clergy" from Church Publishing, Inc., by Robert W. Prichard,
141 pages, paperback, c. 2008, $20

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Clergy today are faced with a profound shift
in American attitudes about marriage that affects the role they play
with each couple. Our society at large today has strikingly different
attitudes from those of just fifty years ago. Couples today are more
likely to have cohabited before marriage, more likely to have children
born out of wedlock, more likely to be married outside of the church,
and more likely to be previously divorced than were their counterparts
of the mid-20th century. This new pastoral resource, grounded in
real-life examples, will be an important new pastoral tool for clergy
and seminarians in the Episcopal Church and other mainline Protestant
churches. It is organized chronologically, beginning with how to
engage the couple making a first-time contact with a member of the
clergy. It next unpacks the marriage rite itself, within contemporary
and traditional viewpoints. Finally, the book addresses the critically
important application of long-term support for the couple throughout
their married lives.

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit
your local Episcopal bookseller, http://www.episcopalbooksellers.org

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