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>Episcopal News Service
>July 2, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Standing Committee membership, resignations confirmed by
Anglican Communion Office
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: Private Christian school teachers say
baptism cost them their jobs
* MISSION - Five Talents awarded $1.5 million to expand, replicate
program in Sudan
* OPINION - Holding hands brings hope in times of uncertainty, by Frank  Logue
* DAYBOOK - July 5: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Praying in Color - Drawing a New
Path to God"

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>TOP STORIES

Standing Committee membership, resignations confirmed by Anglican
Communion Office

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The Anglican Communion Office has announced
that two new members will serve on the Standing Committee beginning
with the July 23-27 meeting in London: Bishop Paul Sarker, moderator
of the Church of Bangladesh and bishop of Dhaka; and the Rev. Canon
Janet Trisk, rector of the parish of St. David, Prestbury, in
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Trisk was elected at the last Standing Committee meeting to replace
Nomfundo Walaza, also from South Africa, and Sarker is the elected
alternate for Middle East President Bishop Mouneer Anis, who resigned
his membership in February saying that his presence has "no value
whatsoever" and that his voice is "like a useless cry in the
wilderness."

The July 2 release also confirmed that Archbishop Henry Orombi of
Uganda and his elected alternate, Archbishop Justice Akrofi of West
Africa, have resigned from the Standing Committee.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_123281_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOS ANGELES: Private Christian school teachers say baptism cost them  their jobs

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Some teachers at a private Christian school
in Corona, California, say they lost their jobs because school
officials didn't consider their baptisms adequate.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123285_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Five Talents awarded $1.5 million to expand, replicate program in Sudan

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Christian microfinance charity Five Talents
has received a $1.5 million grant from Comic Relief, a U.K.-based
foundation, to expand its literacy and financial education program in
Sudan, according to a July 1 press release.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_123288_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

Holding hands brings hope in times of uncertainty

>By Frank Logue

[Episcopal News Service] "Now what?" That two-word question surfaces
when we have run out of options. Do everything you know to do, but the
problem you face looms larger. The problem may be a malignant tumor or
a broken relationship, but there is often a time when all options seem
to have run out. What should we do next?

In Toy Story 3, there is a scene where the toys we have come to love
in the previous two films face what appears to be certain destruction.
They are traveling down a conveyor belt toward a furnace. Despite bold
attempts at saving themselves, no further options remain. In moments
they will be incinerated.

Facing this moment of certain annihilation with no hope of rescue, a
look of "what now" passes across the faces of the toys. Then one
reaches to hold another's hand. One by one they reach out to hold
another's hand.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_123283_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 5, 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 July 5, 1835, Archbishop of Dublin and poet
Richard C. Trench was ordained a priest.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

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