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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>August 18, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* MISSION - Taiwan congregation's generosity builds churches in
Philippines, Tanzania
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Christians urged to pray for imprisoned
converts in Iran
* PEOPLE - George McGonigle to receive first Charles Cook Award in
Servant Leadership
* DAYBOOK - August 19: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Ubuntu Water Bottles

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>MISSION

Taiwan congregation's generosity builds churches in Philippines, Tanzania

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] When parishioners at St. James' Episcopal
Church in Taichung, Taiwan heard about a group of Filipinos holding
services under a mango tree, they were inspired to raise funds so that
the community could worship in a building of its own.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_113377_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Christians urged to pray for imprisoned converts in Iran

>By Trevor Grundy

[Ecumenical News International, Canterbury, England] Members of the
Iranian Christian Fellowship in Britain are invoking prayers for the
release of two women converts from Islam to Christianity who some fear
may face the death sentence in Iran if they refuse to recant their
faith.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_113368_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

George McGonigle to receive first Charles Cook Award in Servant Leadership

[Episcopal News Service] George McGonigle, a former senior executive
officer in the Office of the Presiding Bishop and eight-time deputy to
the Episcopal Church's General Convention, will receive the inaugural
Charles J. Cook Award in Servant Leadership at the Seminary of the
Southwest (SSW) on September 8.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_113361_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On August 19, 2009...

* 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 August 19, 1531, Thomas Bilney, early English
Protestant reformer and preacher, was burned at the stake at Lollards
Pit, Norwich.

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>CATALYST

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