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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
The next trip to Lui from the Diocese of Missouri is planned for November 22 to December 5, 2009. Leaving the day after diocesan convention and spending Thanksgiving in Lui, our missioners will include
- Bishop George Wayne Smith
- Rev. Dan Handschy of Advent, Crestwood
- Rev. Anne Kelsey of Trinity, St. Louis
- Rev. Susan Naylor of Emmanuel, Webster Groves
- Mrs. Evelyn Smith of Christ Church Cathedral
- Mr. Marc Vanacht of St. Timothy’s, Creve Coeur
- Sam Christy of Holy Cross, Poplar Bluff
- Deb Goldfeder of Advent, Crestwood
- Debbie Smith of St. Timothy’s, Creve Coeur, and Mission Team Leader.
In addition to the nine Missourians, two missioners from the Blackmore Vale Deanery of England’s Salisbury Diocese will also travel to Lui in November, Anne Powell of Shillingstone, and a missioner yet to be named.
After several months of discussion and consideration, Blackmore Vale’s synod voted Monday, September 7th, to join with Missouri and Lui in a three-way companion relationship. Salisbury Diocese has had a 35-year link with the Province of Sudan, but up to now Blackmore Vale has not had much direct involvement. Bishop Bullen stayed in their deanery during the pre-Lambeth Sudan conference in the summer of 2008, and many in the deanery got to know him and became interested in developing a relationship. When Missouri’s companion diocese committee contacted Salisbury on Sudan matters, the Salisbury folks put Blackmore Vale in touch with the committee, and the relationship took off from there. The companion diocese committee is especially happy to be able to bring new friends to Lui and to bring the diocese of Missouri the opportunity to connect with congregations in England.
Our mission team leader, Debbie Smith, has recently joined the AFRECS board. After her trip to Blackmore Vale’s synod meeting, she stopped in Washington D.C. for AFRECS board meeting, an advocacy workshop, and then had a meeting with Josh Kremer, one of Senator Bond’s staff. Debbie writes on her blog, Lulului, “He was a great listener and asked good questions — the whole experience was a vindication of everything I’ve always believed about democracy.” (More information and pictures from these trips on the blog.)
Our November mission trip plans include a primary-school art project, meetings with clergy and teachers, and consulting in both Lui and Juba on agriculture and parish nursing. Donations and prayers are always gratefully received.
Tags: Advocacy, Lui, Mission, Sudan
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Lulului
Monday, September 7, 2009
A New Partnership
Tonight I went to the deanery synod meeting of Blackmore Vale deanery in Dorset, part of the English Diocese of Salisbury, where I had the joy of witnessing their unanimous vote to join with the Diocese of Missouri and the Diocese of Lui in a three-way relationship. I am excited about the opportunity to connect with the real-live modern-day English church and to enrich our relationship with our Moru friends in this way. It’s especially important to me that the partnership means a more immediate way to practice and demonstrate transparency, and that having a third culture in the mix will give us new perspective. Our new partners hosted Bishop Bullen last summer at the pre-Lambeth Sudan conference, and he worked his magic on them as he has on us. They have already been raising money for schools and one church’s Mother’s Union made lots of stoles for Lui clergy and sent them. So I’m thrilled to say that when we officially announce the November team next week, two of the missionaries will be from Blackmore Vale Deanery.
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Tags: Church of England, Lui, Mission, Salisbury, Sudan, The Anglican Communion
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
http://stl2lui.blogspot.com/2009/09/things-sudan.html
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Things Sudan
I’m sitting in the Detroit airport, which is surprisingly familiar from the last Sudan mission. Today I’m on my way to England to attend a meeting of Blackmore Vale Deanery and discuss the possibility of a three-way relationship between us and Lui.
Even when Missouri isn’t actively preparing for a mission, there is always something happening on the companion diocese front. Recently we provided funds to buy a new generator because the old one had broken beyond repair. Our friend Stephen has been in Kampala to get a visa – he is attending a conference in Sweden next month. And our friend Margaret has been in Nairobi awaiting her US visa for studies at Eden, but she could not get an interview soon enough to start school this semester. (more…)
Tags: Episcopal Church Women, Lui, Mission, Sudan
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
http://www.sudan.anglican.org/jongleiappeal.php
On Saturday 29th August 2009 I received reports from Wernyol, Twic East County, Jonglei State, that there had been another attack on the peoples of the area in which over forty people – men, women and children – were killed. Amongst the dead were Ven. Joseph Mabior Garang, Archdeacon of Wernyol and Archbishop’s Commissary in the new Diocese of Twic East, who was shot at the altar of the church in Wernyol during a service of Morning Prayer. Tens of others have been wounded, some very seriously with gun-shot wounds and broken limbs. Only a few of these have been taken to Juba Military Hospital, whilst the rest are still in Bor Hospital. (more…)
Tags: Lui, Mission, Sudan
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
 When I first met Bishop Bullen Dolli at the fall convention of the Diocese of Missouri in 2005, I told him as much out of politeness as anything else, that I would like to go to Lui. His reaction wasn’t a conventional response; it was, “When will you come?” I never really expected it to happen. I was the rector of Trinity, served on Diocesan Council, and had much to keep me more than busy as it was. Southern Sudan was a world away, literally, and I did not think that I had anything much to offer on any kind of mission trip. Then Bishop Smith called and asked if I would go to Lui with him, the Canon to the Ordinary the Rev. Dan Smith, and the President of Standing Committee, Ida Early, in April of 2006. We would be formally representing the Diocese of Missouri and signing the Covenant agreement between the two dioceses. (more…)
Tags: Art, Companion Relationship Committee, Lui, Mission, Sudan
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
By Daniel Linck, cathedral parishioner. This article was originally published in Christ Church Cathedral’s newsletter.
On Memorial Day, May 25, about 20 riders left Lake Saint Louis to begin the 2009 Waters of Hope bicycle tour of our diocese. The objective of the tour, now in its second year, is to raise money to benefit clean water systems for Sudan and Swaziland. The tour made its way to Hannibal, Kirksville, Columbia, Mexico, Jefferson City and Rolla, which is where I joined on Saturday.
(more…)
Tags: Lui, Mission, Sudan, Waters of Hope
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
originally published in the Trinity Episcopal Church’s e-newsletter, Summer 2009. Photo from Julie Seidler, happiness at the pulled pork feast prepared by Trinity.
The Day It Rained
by Krista Baker, Senior Warden
On Tuesday, May 26 it rained. The day began with a call from (Rector) Wallace. He tried to sound calm. The Waters of Hope bicyclists were coming to Kirksville, and he was concerned we would not have enough food. It rained. We prepared plenty of food. It rained.
Tuesday ended very late with Tim trying to spell “pimiento” cheese. He was patiently labeling sandwich bags for me as we prepared lunches for the next day. In between that first phone call and that last sandwich, I had a wonderful day full of great memory making moments. I am not sure I raised a dime for clean water in the Diocese of Lui, but I laughed, I cussed, I got wet, I shared hugs, I prayed, and I was touched by many of you and by many of the WOH riders. (more…)
Tags: Lui, Mission, Sudan, Waters of Hope
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