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 What One Congregation Can Do
"During the worship services, we used prayers and music from around the world. We had a combination of three presentations for the sermon -- a film from the UN Millennium Campaign provided by EGR and 2 powerpoints...
"At our Children's Liturgy (age 3 through 2nd grade)... we read Matthew 25:35-40 and talked about why we should care about the poor in the world. We also read the Sandy Eisenberg Sasso book, In God's Name, which has a fabulous line near the end that goes something like, "And they called God One!" Then we sang the Raffi song,"One Light, One Sun," which has the word one at the start of every verse. The kids loved it and wanted to sing it again using American Sign Language so of course we did!...
"For the dismissal hymn of the 2 main services, the clergy and choir wrapped everyone in the pews in a large piece of inexpensive white fabric (called gossamer and available from www.StumpsProm.com). Everyone sang Ubi Caritas (Taize) while the wrapping was going on as parish musicians played up in the choir loft. Soloists sang verses with various Millennium Development Goals over the top of the parish singing. It gave the impression we were all enclosed in a giant white circle or band of cloth. It was a beautiful ending to a very moving service. People each took home a white ONE bracelet and a small square of the white fabric which were in baskets at the doors, as well as the ONE Episcopalian brochures, EGR booklets and ERD Gifts for Life Catalogs.
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This Sunday is ONE Sunday!
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| Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has asked all congregations to make this Sunday (Lent 1, Feb. 25) ONE Sunday as an effort to join congregations in prayer and reflection for people living in extreme poverty worldwide.
ONE Sunday is an opportunity for congregations to embrace the ONE Episcopalian Campaign and also to make a contribution to a special offering to ERD that will help people suffering from chronic hunger, disease and poverty around the world.
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| Quote of the Week |
"Giving by members of this church is an essential and prophetic act, one that challenges others, especially governments, to join in the work. But the MDGs can only be met by governmental generosity, and it will be here that the next work of the MDGs is going to have to focus. You and I as Episcopalians, and all the other like-minded folks we can muster, of whatever faith or denomination or none are going to have to lobby our government to raise the level of aid we give to 1 percent of the annual budget."
-Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, speaking to the convention of the Diocese of E. Tennessee |
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