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Week of 3 July 2005

Africa
Resources
Bishop Simeon CR Trust: 'established in the UK in 1989, the trust exists to support through education and welfare projects those most disadvantaged South Africans who still suffer from the inequalities and injustices caused by apartheid and its economic and social legacy.' Named for Simeon Nkoane (1929-1989) suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Johannesburg under Desmond Tutu.

Music for the Highveld: This lovely website supports 'the Highveld Diocese in tackling the AIDS epidemic in South Africa.' The sale of music recordings through the site helps to provide funding for Tsepho-Hope Centre and the Kwase-Kwaza Home Based Care Project, two HIV/AIDS ministries in eastern South Africa. An important focus of this ministry is support for children affected by or infected with HIV/AIDS.

Australia
Parishes
Tasmania: Battery Point, St George (Tasmania)
Tasmania: Brighton Parish [St Mark, Pontville; St Mary, Bridgewater; St George, Old Beach; St Thomas, Tea Tree] (Tasmania)
Tasmania: Hobart, Hobart Chinese Anglican Church [Holy Trinity] (Tasmania)
Tasmania: Riverlinks Parish [St Mary Magdalene, George Town; Christ Church, Low Head; St Alban, Piper's River; St Aidan, East Launceston; St Oswald, Trevallyn; St David, Riverside] (Tasmania)
Tasmania: South Hobart, All Saints with St Raphael, Fern Tree (Tasmania)

Canada
Miscellaneous resources
Anglican Network in Canada: ANiC, '(also known as the Essentials Network) desires to express communion with all orthodox Anglicans in Canada and in the global Anglican Communion.'

Church History
A Century of Anglican Theology and Other Lectures, by C.C.J. Webb (1923): In this series of lectures, Webb surveys Anglican theology from the 1820s through the end of World War I.

A Bishop Amongst Bananas, by Herbert Bury (1911): Bury (1853-1933) was Anglican bishop in Central America during the construction of the Panama Canal. His diocese included the modern countries of Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Bishop Bury served subsequently as Bishop of Northern and Central Europe.

Tucker of Uganda: Artist and Apostle, by Arthur P. Shepherd (1929): Alfred Robert Tucker (1849-1914) was Bishop of Uganda from 1890 to 1911. One account of his episcopate notes: 'In 1891 there were seventy communicants, and in 1907, 18,078. The number of worshipers rose from 25,300 in 1897 to 52,471 in 1907, and the number of churches from 321 to 1,070 during the same years.' This biography includes a frontispiece portrait.

England
Parishes
London, Bethnal Green, St Matthew (London)
London, Hamilton Terrace, St Mark (London)
London, Regents Park, St Mark (London)

Miscellaneous resources
Trinity Hospice: Clapham Common, London. Founded as the Free Home for the Dying in 1891 by the Anglican order of St James's Servants of the Poor. This is the oldest hospice in England. 'Trinity's care is absolutely free of charge for everyone, and treatment and support are delivered however long they are required.'

Europe
Romania: Bucharest, Resurrection (Diocese in Europe) [includes information on Anglican chaplaincy in Bulgaria]

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
ACK disavows ECUSA. Additional coverage of ACC meeting in Nottingham. On women bishops in the Church of England. Papers for Church of England General Synod. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Parishes
North Carolina: Mooresville, St Patrick (North Carolina)
North Carolina: Salisbury, St Paul (North Carolina)
North Carolina: Statesville, Trinity (North Carolina)
North Carolina: Wilson, St Timothy (North Carolina)
South Carolina: Charleston, St Philip (South Carolina)
South Carolina: Edisto Island, Trinity (South Carolina)
South Carolina: Florence (Quinby), Christ Church (South Carolina)

Resources
Global Teams. A missionary organisation founded in 1983 as Episcopal World Mission. 'Because of the growth of EWM as an international mission, the name was changed in 2002 to EWM Global Teams, and as of January 2004 to Global Teams. Most of our missionaries are from the Anglican tradition, but an increasing number are from other churches and traditions including Pentecostal, Baptist, and Presbyterian.'

Retirement Communities
Cathedral Residences Senior Community. Jacksonville, Florida. Retirement community affiliated with the Diocese of Florida.

The Evergreens. Moorestown, New Jersey. Continuing care retirement community founded in 1919 'in Bound Brook, NJ as a generous gift to the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey by the Henry LaMonte family.'

Schools and Education
Berkeley Canterbury. Episcopal/Anglican student fellowship at University of California-Berkeley.

Episcopal Association for College Work. Houghton, Michigan-based organisation providing scholarships and college chaplaincy in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Episcopal School for Ministry. The Diocese of Missouri's programme to 'deepen the spiritual lives and strengthen the ministries in the church and the world of all who seek to grow in the knowledge and love of God; prepare people to serve the church as priests and deacons; [and] strengthen the ministries of lay and ordained people through continuing education.'

Vacancies Centre
List a parish or diocesan opening for one month at AO -- at no charge. What a bargain! The more you use our free service, the more useful it will become for all.

Seeking a position? Scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites with vacancies listings throughout the communion.

Wales
Resources
R.S. Thomas Study Centre, University of Wales, Bangor. Research collection and centre dedicated to the works of R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), Anglican priest and Welsh nationalist poet. Site in English and Welsh.

World
Barbados: St John, Codrington College.The oldest theological college of the Anglican Communion, founded in 1715, officially opened in 1745 and training ordinands exclusively since 1830.
Taiwan: Chiayi, St Peter (Taiwan)

Worth Noting
The ACC has created a serious challenge: Inclusive Church offers this essay by Giles Goddard.

Time for bishop's move: Judith Maltby, writing in The Guardian, argues that the church needs women bishops.

From Uganda to York, shaped by the saints and martyrs: Sarah Meyrick, writing in the Church Times, comments on the new Archbishop of York.

Announcing an Archbishop: a day in the life of the DCO: Martin Sheppard reflects on the announcement of Dr Sentamu's appointment to Ebor.

Of Canterbury and York: Andrew Brown, writing in the Church Times, reflects on the recent lecture on The Media by Rowan Williams.

The Sacred Neuron: Extraordinary new discoveries linking science and religion, by John W Bowker, reviewed in the Church Times by Gordon McPhate.

Why Study the Past? The quest for the historical Church, a book by Rowan Williams, reviewed in the Church Times by George Pattison.

The Cost of Certainty, a book by Jeremy Young, reviewed in the Church Times by Thaddeus Birchard.


Week of 26 June 2005

Africa
Resources
Anglican AIDS Programmes, Church of Southern Africa: Regional network giving information on AIDS-related church work in 24 dioceses and six countries.

Australia
Parishes
New South Wales: Chatswood, Holy Trinity Mowbray (Sydney)
New South Wales: St George North [St James, Carlton; Christ Church, Bexley; Holy Trinity, North Bexley] (Sydney)
New South Wales: Kensington Parish [St Martin, Kensington; St Stephen, Eastlakes] (Sydney)

Hope Healthcare Australia: In 1891 the Anglican Deaconess Institution began ministry training and care for the aged, sick and destitute. Today, ADIS manages Neringah Hospital, Greenwich Hospital, Graythwaite Nursing Home, Tom O'Neill Centre, Northern Beaches Palliative Care, Braeside Hospital and other organisations in Australia, grouped under the umbrella of Hope Healthcare Australia.

Canada
Resources
ASK - Anglicans Seeking Knowledge: A collection of online searchable databases launched last month by the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Anglican Church Women in the Diocese of Toronto: 'The purpose of Anglican Church Women in the Diocese of Toronto is to be a focus for Christian community among all Anglican women, affirming their gifts and encouraging their ministries through worship, learning and service.'

Anglican Diocese of Edmonton Cursillo Community

Anglican Gathering of Ottawa: 'a growing collection of Anglicans from across the Diocese of Ottawa that seek to continue to follow the traditional teaching and beliefs of the Anglican Church.'

Diocese of Niagara Anglican Cursillo Movement

Church History
An Heroic Bishop, by Eliot Stock (1913): Thomas Valpy French (1825-1891) was the first Bishop of Lahore in modern Pakistan. He founded Agra College and the Divinity School at Lahore; fostered positive relations with Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Christians in southwest Asia; supervised the translation of the Bible and Prayer Book into Hindustani and Pushtu; and organized the Diocese of Lahore. French died while on a missionary journey in the Arabian Peninsula, and is buried at Muscat, Oman.

Dayspring in the Far West, by M.E. Johnson (1875): This volume traces the history of Anglicanism in Canada north and west of the Great Lakes. A number of interesting and attractive engravings accompany the text.

Papers of Reuben Archer Torrey, III: Wheaton College's Billy Graham Center holds the papers of R.A. Torrey (1918-2002), an Episcopal priest who was born to Presbyterian missionaries working in northern China. This site includes transcripts of oral history interviews detailing his impressions of missionary life in Korea and parish life in the United States.

England
Resources
AWESOME, Anglican Women Evangelicals Supporting Ordained Ministry: 'We are a network of women ordained into the Anglican Church from across the Evangelical spectrum. We include and welcome into our number all ordained evangelical women, both permanent deacons and priests. We exist specifically to support and pray for one another in ministry, seeking to learn from scripture, the Spirit and one another. We will seek to equip one another for ordained ministry in the Church, that the Church might be better equipped to fulfil her Gospel imperative.'

The Church of England Evangelical Council: 'a federation of Anglican Evangelical Agencies who realise that their voices carry more weight when they speak together.'

The Compass Rose Society: 'an international charitable organization that supports the programs and ministries of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Consultative Council. We do this by raising funds for ministry, by designating contributions for mission projects, and by building a community of individuals and parishes who support these missions and ministries.'

Diocese of Chester Anglican Cursillo: Diocesan branch of this retreat programme.

The Woodard Corporation: 'Woodard Schools form the largest group of Church of England schools in England and Wales.' Founded in 1847 by Nathaniel Woodard, the Woodard schools 'have a firm conviction [...] that education is best delivered within a community whose life, thoughts and actions are shaped by Christian belief and practice.'

Ireland
Resources
Church of Ireland Theological College, Dublin

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
ACC 13 almost finished in Nottingham. Much commentary on that meeting. On the Israeli/Palestine conflict. New ABY to keep out of sex arguments. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Odds and Ends
Anglican Communion Observer at the United Nations: Official website of the Anglican Communion Observer at the UN, currently Archdeacon Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa-Matalavea.

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USA
Parishes
North Carolina: Carrboro, Church of the Advocate (North Carolina) [parish founded in 2003]
North Carolina: Charlotte, St John (North Carolina)
North Carolina: Durham, St Joseph (North Carolina)
North Carolina: Haw River, St Andrew (North Carolina)
North Carolina: Salter Path, St Francis by the Sea (East Carolina)
North Carolina: Southport, St Philip (East Carolina)
South Carolina: Columbia, St Michael and All Angels (Upper South Carolina)
South Carolina: Gaffney, Incarnation (Upper South Carolina)
South Carolina: Greenville, St Peter (Upper South Carolina)
South Carolina: Newberry, St Luke (Upper South Carolina)
South Carolina: North Augusta, St John (Upper South Carolina)

Resources
Episcopal Women's Caucus. EWC 'has a vision: a church that honors and rejoices in the ministries of all women'. This website includes a discussion forum and online membership renewal.

Friends at the Advent. 'a group of singles and couples in their 20s and 30s who attend the Church of the Advent in Beacon Hill, Boston.'

Friends of St Vincent's Center for Handicapped Children. Founded in 1945 by the Sisters of Saint Margaret, St Vincent's Center for Handicapped Children is a school and medical facility in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Friends of St Vincent's is an interfaith outreach ministry of St James, West Hartford, Connecticut.

Schools and Education
Mead Hall Episcopal School. Aiken, South Carolina. 3-year-old preschool through 8th grade.

St Stephen's Episcopal School. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Coeducational, pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.

Vacancies Centre
List a parish or diocesan opening for one month at AO -- at no charge. What a bargain! The more you use our free service, the more useful it will become for all.

Seeking a position? Scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites with vacancies listings throughout the communion.

World
Guyana: Georgetown, St George's Cathedral (Guyana)
Honduras, Deanery of Tegucigalpa (Honduras)
Sri Lanka: Colombo, Bishop's College: Anglican college founded in 1857 as the Bishopsgate School by James Chapman, first Bishop of Colombo.

Resources
Mothers Union of Barbados. Founded in 1918. Site includes extensive information on membership, activities, history and local branches.

St John's and St Mary's Intitute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Successor institution of the former St John's University and St Mary's Hall of Shanghai, educational institutions founded in 1879 and 1918 by Bishop Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky. The founder of St John's and St Mary's Institute of Technology in Taiwan was Dr James C. L. Wong, the first Chinese bishop of the Episcopal Church in Taiwan.

Worth Noting
An interview with John Sentamu: Jonathan Wynne-Jones, writing for the Church of England Newspaper, conducted this interview with the Most Revd Dr John Sentamu, new Archbishop of York. Althbough not so labeled, the interview continues to this second part.

Pegging out love's laundry: Christopher Howse's column in The Telegraph reflects on Rowan Williams' recent lecture on the media.



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