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>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 23, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Archbishop of Canterbury to speak at General Convention forum
* TOP STORY - Pre-General Convention bulletin insert series concludes
July 5 with 'Being Episcopalian'
* WORLD REPORT - SOUTH KOREA: Churches urge unconditional support of
children in North
* MISSION - Former Sudan missionary Lauren Stanley heads to Haiti
* DAYBOOK - June 24: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Lifting Women's Voices - Prayers to Change the World

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>TOP STORIES

Archbishop of Canterbury to speak at General Convention forum

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will
make a presentation addressing the world's economic crisis during a
panel discussion webcast live July 8 from the Episcopal Church's 76th
General Convention, scheduled to take place July 8-17 in Anaheim,
California.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and House of Deputies
President Bonnie Anderson will host the event, to be called "Christian
Faithfulness in the Global Economic Crisis" at the Anaheim Hilton from
6:15 to 7:30 p.m. PST (10:30 p.m. EST).

"I am delighted that the General Convention will have the opportunity
to focus on global economic issues and, in the process, consider how
our stewardship may be exercised for the benefit of the larger world,"
said Jefferts Schori, who will provide an overview of the economic
crisis and introduce Williams.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_111079_ENG_HTM.htm

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Pre-General Convention bulletin insert series concludes July 5 with
'Being Episcopalian'

[Episcopal News Service] The sixth and last of Episcopal Life Weekly's
pre-General Convention bulletin inserts is "Being Episcopalian," a
description of those elements that make the Episcopal Church and its
Anglican roots unique among Christians. Author of the text is the Rev.
Canon Charles K. Robertson, canon to the Presiding Bishop.

Bulletin inserts for the remainder of July and the first two weeks in
August will report on actions taken by General Convention, which
convenes July 8 - 17 at the Anaheim Convention Center, located in the
Diocese of Los Angeles, California

Bulletin inserts are available at

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

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

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>WORLD REPORT

SOUTH KOREA: Churches urge unconditional support of children in North

>By Hisashi Yukimoto

[Ecumenical News International, Tokyo] A South Korean grouping of
churches is urging its member churches and organizations to join a
campaign to give North Korean children milk and bread "without any
precondition."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_111051_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Former Sudan missionary Lauren Stanley heads to Haiti

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] "Where does God need me most?" For the Rev.
Lauren Stanley, this question has led her to the most populous diocese
of the Episcopal Church and the poorest nation in the western
hemisphere -- Haiti.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_111042_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On June 24, 2009, the church calendar remembers the Nativity of St.
John the Baptist.

* 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 June 24, 1579, the first Anglican service was
held in the Americas. Francis Fletcher, sailing with Sir Francis
Drake, read from the Book of Common Prayer in California.

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>CATALYST

"Lifting Women's Voices - Prayers to Change the World" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Margaret Rose, Jenny Te Paa, Jeanne Person &
Abagail Nelson, 393 pages, hardcover, c. 2009, $25

[Church Publishing, Inc.] This stunning collection of prayers from
women throughout the Anglican Communion is organized according to
themes of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals.

It makes direct connections between women's personal lives and global
concerns of women everywhere, showing the interrelatedness, for
example, between a woman's prayer for her infant in America and the
plight of child laborers in developing countries.

The prayer selections are representative of women from of all parts of
the Anglican world. Members of the editorial board include Jane
Williams, Phoebe Griswold, plus women from Asia, South America, and
the Middle East.

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http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit
your local Episcopal bookseller, http://www.episcopalbooksellers.org

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