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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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6/27 It’s On
On Thursday, June 25, we received an email from John Ferguson of American Voices saying that the academy in Iraq was definitely going to happen. It’s been quite a roller coaster ride as funding seems to have been particularly difficult to procure this year… (more…)
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009

This year’s annual mission trip from Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Webster Groves, to Lakota Nation was changed from its customary second week of June to honor a request to join the Diocese of South Dakota for the closing celebration of their diocesan convocation. Hosted by the Rosebud Mission, the 2009 (137th) Niobrara Convocation will be held at the Bishop Hare Center, and South Dakota’s new Bishop Coadjutor will be the celebrant. (more…)
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Tim Townsend, religion editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, wrote in his 4/6/09 coverage:
After the hourlong rally, Imam Muhamed Hasic of the Islamic Community Center in St. Louis said such grass-roots efforts based on interfaith organization were important “because hundreds of thousands in this state deserve to be treated better and this is where that help can begin.”
Bishop George Wayne Smith, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, agreed, saying it was up to “the faithful to care for the least of these.”
“Personally, I can do nothing other than that, and I will be asking Episcopalians in the pews to do the same,” he said. -more
Pam Dolan wrote in her Civil Religion column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
The decisions that our state government makes during these next few weeks regarding the 2010 budget will have real and lasting consequences for everyone in the state, but no persons will be more directly affected than the poor, the disabled, children, and the elderly. In other words, those very people for whom we are most responsible, if we wish to be a just and compassionate society. -more

A set of photographs from the Rally on our diocesan flickr page, flickr.com/diocesemo
Attorney Robert Crowe blogged the Rally at St Louis Daily Photo Blog
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Bishop Michael Smith and the people along the Red River of the North appreciate your continuing prayers. Bishop Smith’s most recent pastoral letter adds, “People from around the country are contacting us to be assured of their prayers during this battle with the Red River. I ask for those prayers to continue, specifically that the levees, dikes and sandbags will hold and for strength and protection for those on the front lines.”
Prayers and notes from around the country are being added to the diocesan blog. (more…)
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