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>Episcopal News Service
>April 28, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - 'Called to Serve': Domestic poverty conference gets
underway in Newark
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS - May 2, 2010 - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year C
* DAYBOOK - April 29: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Feasting on the Word Year C Volume 3: Pentecost and
Season After Pentecost 1"

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>TOP STORIES

'Called to Serve'

Domestic poverty conference gets underway in Newark

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service - Newark, New Jersey] "Healing the worst of
the poverty in this nation is intrinsically connected to restoring
human beings to right relationship with the rest of creation," said
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in a keynote address that
touched on most every factor - shelter, food, environment, health
care, employment and economics - that plays a role in domestic
poverty.

More than 170 Episcopalians, the presiding bishop, House of Deputies
President Bonnie Anderson and others interested in social service
gathered here April 28 for "Called to Serve: The Episcopal Church
Responds to Domestic Poverty," a conference designed to explore the
nature of domestic poverty and the church's role in addressing it.

The three-day conference is supported by Jubilee Ministries, Episcopal
Community Services in America and National Episcopal Health Ministries
and is an opportunity for conference-goers to share ideas to better
implement and strengthen programming through workshops and plenary
sessions, and to build relationships locally, regionally and
nationally by networking.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_121919_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>CALENDAR

A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan
conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available
at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/calendar.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

>May 2, 2010 - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year C

(RCL) Acts 11:1-18; Psalm 148; Revelation 21:1-6; John 13:31-35

>By the Rev. Ben E. Helmer

[Sermons That Work] The Collect for today asks for us to be able to
know Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life that we may follow in
the way that leads to eternal life.

Once there was a church that had the phrase "I am the way, the truth
and the life" on a sign above its iron gate. The church and its
message intrigued a young man, so he decided to go there on Sunday. He
was not welcomed. No one spoke to him, or smiled, or offered him a
handshake. After the service he left in a puzzled state.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_121570_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On April 29, 2010, the church remembers Catherine of Siena.

* 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 April 29, 1607, English settlers established
the first Anglican church in the American colonies at Cape Henry,
Virginia.

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