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>Episcopal News Service
>November 30, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Alternative worship services extend welcome to
special-needs children and their parents
* TOP STORY - Presiding bishop issues World AIDS Day letter
* WORLD REPORT - CUBA: Griselda Delgado Del Carpio installed as bishop
* WORLD REPORT - SUDAN: Anglican, Catholic archbishops register to
vote in historic referendum
* WORLD REPORT - Archbishop of Canterbury issues video message for
World AIDS Day 2010
* MISSION - General Seminary strikes pact with real-estate developer
* OPINION - Building a movement for climate justice in the Episcopal
Church, By P. Joshua 'Griff' Griffin
* VIDEO - Presiding bishop's Advent message
* DAYBOOK - December 1: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History

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>TOP STORIES

Alternative worship services extend welcome to special-needs children
and their parents

>By Sharon Sheridan

[Episcopal News Service] Crucifer Scott Collins stood at the front of
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Harrington Park, New Jersey, and
lifted high his cross. "Who's ready for a cross parade?" he asked.

About a dozen children and adults holding small wooden crosses lined
up behind him, waving blue pom-poms and shaking noisemakers as they
marched twice around the nave before returning to their seats. A few
minutes and a brief Scripture lesson later, they left the pews again,
gathering in the center aisle to grasp a "prayer rope" and recite, or
listen to, the Lord's Prayer. After a gluten-free Communion,
congregants ended the 30-minute service as they began, parading behind
the cross before turning in their bells and plastic clackers and
heading to the parish hall for snacks, children's videos and adult
conversation.

It's not your typical Episcopal Eucharist. But it is part of a growing
trend of alternative worship services geared to special-needs, and
particularly autistic, children. The Harrington Park service, held
every other week beginning in October, follows a liturgy called All
God's Children launched at Christ Episcopal Church in Budd Lake, New
Jersey, three years ago.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_125946_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Presiding bishop issues World AIDS Day letter

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
has issued the following letter for World AIDS Day, which is observed
annually on Dec. 1.

Full message: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_125943_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CUBA: Griselda Delgado Del Carpio installed as bishop

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Griselda Delgado Del Carpio was
installed as bishop of the Episcopal Church of Cuba during a Nov. 28
ceremony at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Havana.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125939_ENG_HTM.htm

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SUDAN: Anglican, Catholic archbishops register to vote in historic 
referendum

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul of the Episcopal
Church of Sudan and Roman Catholic Archbishop Paulino Lukudu Loro of
Juba registered on Nov. 23 to vote in the upcoming referendum on
independence when southerners in Sudan will decide whether or not to
secede from the north.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125948_ENG_HTM.htm

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Archbishop of Canterbury issues video message for World AIDS Day 2010

[Episcopal News Service] In his message for 2010 World AIDS Day,
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams celebrates the good news that
can be found in examples of local responses to HIV and the impact of
global action reflected in the latest statistics, according to a press
release from Lambeth Palace.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125949_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

General Seminary strikes pact with real-estate developer

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] General Theological Seminary
(http://gts.edu/) has reached a preliminary agreement with the Brodsky
Organization (http://www.brodskyorg.com/), a Manhattan real estate
developer, which would result in the sale of several of the seminary's
residential and mixed-use properties.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_125953_ENG_HTM.htm

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>VIDEO

>Presiding bishop's Advent message

>Video: http://bit.ly/i6mWap

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm

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>OPINION

Building a movement for climate justice in the Episcopal Church

>By P. Joshua 'Griff' Griffin

[Episcopal News Service] When the "externalities" of fossil fuel
production and consumption cause suffering for our neighbor, is it
still possible to live ethically in a fossil fuel economy? What is the
ecological debt owed by those affluent segments of human society to
those who live in material need? These are some of the questions that
will be considered at a landmark gathering this December.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_125944_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On December 1, 2010, the church remembers Nicholas Ferrar, deacon.

* 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 December 1, 1847, the Rev. Michael Fackler
baptized James McKinlay, marking the first recorded service using the
American Book of Common Prayer in the Pacific Northwest. On December
1, 1941, F.J. (Frederick John) Foakes-Jackson, Anglican theologian,
was born in Ipswich, England.