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>Episcopal News Service
>March 15, 2010

Episcopal News Service is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens.

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - 'Stretching spiritual muscles': Easter bulletin inserts
contain message from the presiding bishop
* TOP STORY - Bulletin inserts for Palm Sunday describe work of
Jerusalem's Episcopal diocese and its American friends
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - Minnesota bishop helps coach basketball team to
state championship
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: Haiti bishop comes to US for
respite, House of Bishops meeting
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury receives Russian
Order of Friendship
* MISSION - Educational scholarships available from the Episcopal Church
* PEOPLE - Mark Richardson named as new Church Divinity School of the
Pacific president
* DAYBOOK - March 16: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Images of Haiti: Stories of Strength"

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>TOP STORIES

'Stretching spiritual muscles': Easter bulletin inserts contain
message from the presiding bishop

Beginning with the example of the people of Haiti, who 'need to
practice saying Alleluia' this year so that they can celebrate Easter
in the midst of grief and darkness, Presiding Bishop Katharine
Jefferts Schori calls on Episcopalians to stretch their spiritual
muscles in order to 'insist on resurrection everywhere we turn' in her
2010 Easter message, published in ENS Weekly bulletin inserts for
Easter Sunday, April 4.

To download the bulletin inserts, click here:

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

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Bulletin inserts for Palm Sunday describe work of Jerusalem's
Episcopal diocese and its American friends

"Friends in holy places," ENS Weekly bulletin inserts for Palm Sunday,
March 28, describe the work of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and
its relationship with the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of
Jerusalem as together they serve the minority Christian population in
the Holy Land as well as Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

To download the inserts, click here:

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

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

Minnesota bishop helps coach basketball team to state championship

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] He may be known as Bishop Brian Prior in the
Diocese of Minnesota but to the Freeman High Scotties he's "Coach."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_120820_ENG_HTM.htm

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SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: Haiti bishop comes to US for respite, House of
Bishops meeting

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché
Duracin recently joined his wife, Marie-Edithe, in Florida where she
is recovering from injuries suffered in the magnitude-7 earthquake
that struck Haiti on Jan. 12.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_120857_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury receives Russian Order of Friendship

[Lambeth Palace] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams was on March
11 presented with the Russian Order of Friendship, for his
"outstanding contribution to the cooperation and friendly relations
between Russia and the U.K."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_120844_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Educational scholarships available from the Episcopal Church

[Office of Communication] Applications are now being accepted for more
than 60 scholarships available through the Episcopal Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_120855_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Mark Richardson named as new Church Divinity School of the Pacific  president

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Church Divinity School of the Pacific's
board of trustees announced March 11 that the Rev. Dr. W. Mark
Richardson has accepted the offer to become the seminary's next
president and dean.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_120837_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On March 16, 2010...

* 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 March 16, 1789, Henry Ustic Onderdonk was born
in New York. Onderdonk served as rector of St. Ann's Church in
Brooklyn, New York. In 1827, he was consecrated in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and served as assistant bishop to the Rt. Rev. William
White, the first bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania and the first
and fourth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. Onderdonk
succeeded White as bishop of Pennsylvania upon White's death in 1836.

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>EBAR PICK

"Images of Haiti: Stories of Strength" Produced by St. James Episcopal
Church in Minnesota, 76 pages, softcover, c. 2010, $20.

[St. James Episcopal Church] What do you know about contemporary
Haiti? Poverty, corruption, hunger, disease, hurricanes, earthquakes
and despair? Yet in the midst of every negative image lie the
invisible narratives of ordinary Haitian people: strength, commitment,
laughter, pride, creativity, joy and more.

Images of Haiti tells the stories of ten Haitian women and men, ages
14 through 96 -- each story is unique unto itself while also
portraying fundamental realities of life in Haiti. In both English and
Creole the project offers tools for educating about Haiti and for
building respect for Haitian people. 100% of the proceeds go to the
villages of Matenwa and Bigonet in Haiti.

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