Winter Conference Highlights Now Online
The 2010 Winter Conference wrap-up and plenary speaker highlights are now online.
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Haiti Earthquake Relief Continues
Based on his 22-year history of friendship with the people of Haiti, Bishop TJ Johnston is continuing efforts to serve the country and model the heart of theAM to reach people with the Gospel. Traveling to Haiti just days after the devastating earthquake struck, Bishop TJ took $10,000 in contributions to help meet some of the immediate medical and nutritional needs of the victims and refugees. This impoverished nation continues to face enormous recovery and rebuilding work.
To learn more about Bishop Johnston's ongoing response to the Haiti crisis, read his blog here. Read the bishop's response letter here.
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No Leftovers! Super Bowl Party with
the Homeless
 How would you handle 450 people showing up for your Super Bowl party?
No problem for the volunteers of Trinity Anglican in Atlanta, Georgia. Eight years ago, the Lazarus Ministry, initiated their first Super Bowl party with the homeless of downtown Atlanta, starting with only two volunteers and 25 guests.
This year Lazarus volunteers transformed a known homeless hang-out parking lot into a festival atmosphere. The music, games, photo booth, big screen TV and food drew in more than 450 locals; 75 entered the chili cook-off competition.
"The poor usually get the expired and leftover food, but here they get our absolute best at this party," notes Allison Mitchell, Lazarus Ministry Founder. Read full article here.
Lazurus Ministry and its founder are on staff with Trinity Anglican in Atlanta.
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New Initiative Supports Clergy Wives
Ellen Loomis, wife of Bishop Doc Loomis, has co-founded a new initiative to support the wives of clergy in theAM: Chosen, Partners in the Harvest. "We believe that while the pastor is called, his wife has been chosen by God to share in the work and joy of her husband's ministry," explains Ellen.
 Recognizing the unique challenges of parish ministry, especially in church planting, Chosen plans to host retreats through network-based gatherings in the US and Canada to offer pastors' wives an opportunity to worship, hear biblical teaching and testimonies from bishops' wives, and share and pray with one another.
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Show a Movie: Help Build a Village
in Rwanda
 Starting Ash Wednesday, February 17th, the director of the award-winning film As We Forgive (AWF) invites you to engage your communities in radical forgiveness.
Filmmaker Laura Waters Hinson has announced the launch of the "40 Days of 4-Giveness" campaign this Lenten/Easter season. The campaign invites churches and organizations to engage their communities in the topic of radical forgiveness by hosting film screenings. The AWF team will construct a "Living Bricks" village of reconciliation in Rwanda with donations from the events.
Will you consider hosting a screening?
Download a "Host a Movie Event Kit" and learn more here.
See the movie trailer here.
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Rwandan Clergy Inspire US High Schoolers
 Raleigh, North Carolina. You could have heard a pin drop in the lunchroom of Ravenscroft school on February 2nd. Upper school students absorbed the candid stories shared by Rwandan Bishop Jered Kalimba and the Rev. Jean-Pierre Rukundo, learning firsthand of the genocide and Rwandan culture. The two clergyman fielded questions and engaged in a spirited discussion with a classroom of AP French students; French is spoken across 31 francophone African countries, including Rwanda.
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