[ELD] Episcopal Asiamerica Ministries Consultation meets in Taiwan / Women bishops is focus of July 13 bulletin insert

[Matthew Davies]

Episcopal Life Daily
June 16, 2008

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

Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Episcopal Asiamerica Ministries Consultation meets in
Taiwan
* TOP STORY - Women bishops is focus of July 13 bulletin insert
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Gay priests' civil partnership blessed in
London church
* FEATURE - Sharing songs -- and life: Idaho church project brings
children and retirees together
* ARTS - German villagers recall good deeds amidst Holocaust horror
* DAYBOOK - June 17, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Transforming Congregations

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TOP STORIES

Episcopal Asiamerica Ministries Consultation meets in Taiwan

Participants challenged to become ministers of reconciliation in a
broken world

By staff

[Episcopal News Service] Participants at the Episcopal Asiamerica
Ministries Consultation, held June 6-10 in Kaoshiung, Taiwan, were
challenged to "go in peace to love and serve the Lord" in the context of
cities of the United States and throughout the whole globalized world
and become ministers of reconciliation in a broken world and a broken
church.

"It is not an accident that almost all the churches and ministries of
Asian Americans are located in the cities and urban centers," the Rev.
Dr. Winfred B. Vergara, officer for Episcopal Asiamerica Ministries
(EAM), said. "God has purpose for the Asian Americans and other ethnic
Episcopalians in the city."

The consultation featured keynote speakers Canon Soh Chye Ann of the
Church Mission Society and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
who addressed the 160 Asian American leaders, representing Chinese,
Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, Southeast Asian convocations,
diocesan representatives and their guests from Philippines, Korea, Hong
Kong, India, Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97913_ENG_HTM.htm

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Women bishops is focus of July 13 bulletin insert

[Episcopal Life Weekly] The eighth in Episcopal Life's series of nine
bulletin inserts on the Lambeth Conference and the Anglican Communion
concerns the ministry of women bishops. It is written by Catherine S.
Roskam, bishop suffragan of the Diocese of New York.

Bulletin inserts are available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Gay priests' civil partnership blessed in London church
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_97842_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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FEATURES

Sharing songs -- and life

Idaho church project brings children and retirees together

By Robert Runkle

[Episcopal Life] Two seemingly different groups in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho,
recently began building relationships with the help of St. Luke's
Episcopal Church.

The first is the children who live with parents or guardians at the St.
Vincent de Paul Transitional Housing Center in Coeur d'Alene. Each
Monday evening, a small group of St. Luke's volunteers works with the
children while their parents and guardian attend classes aimed at
providing the necessary skills in parenting to these adults who are
trying to break the homelessness cycle. The volunteers provide the
children with role models, fun, learning, games and other activities.

The second is the residents of Coeur d'Alene Homes. CDA Homes is owned
by 25 Christian congregations and "has for 85 years provided
compassionate Christian care to adults and older adults in our community
needing assistance with daily activities, without regard to their
ability to pay," according to its website (http://www.cdahomes.org).

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_97843_ENG_HTM.htm

More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm

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ARTS

German villagers recall good deeds amidst Holocaust horror

[Episcopal Life]

GOOD NEIGHBORS, BAD TIMES
Echoes of My Father's German Village
By Mimi Schwartz
University of Nebraska Press, 280 pp., $24.95

Once upon a time there was a village in the Black Forest of Germany
called Benheim. The families, who had lived there for generations, were
a mix of Christians and Jews. These people were happy and content living
together, helping each other when the need arose, sharing whatever they
had. But that was before Hitler.

Mimi Schwartz grew up in Queens, N.Y. Born in 1940, three years after
her family came from Germany, Mimi grew tired of hearing her father say,
"In Benheim this, in Benheim that...." But the stories stuck in her
mind.

Full review: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_97915_ENG_HTM.htm

More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm

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DAYBOOK

On June 16, 2008...

* 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 June 16, 2006, Katharine Jefferts Schori was
elected 26th Presiding Bishop at the 75th General Convention.

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CATALYST

"Transforming Congregations" from Church Publishing, Inc., by James
Lemler, 179 pages, paperback, c. 2008, $16

[Church Publishing, Inc.] How can our patterns of congregational life
and mission renew themselves and adjust to changing culture without
selling out what Episcopalians stand for? How can local faith
communities stay resilient and hopeful? What styles and practices of
spirituality do most to enrich our mission? 

These are some of the questions James Lemler poses in this book on
mission for clergy and congregational discussion. As with evangelism,
there is both good and bad news about Episcopalians and mission. Lemler
also provides a variety of models for moving forward in mission and
hope, to a more abundant future.

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

More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm