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July 2011 Blog Posts (2)

August 7: Let's allocate a special donation to ERD to support our world's hungry

I am sure you are all as heartbroken as I am about the tales and pictures of starving children coming from the Horn of Africa where severe drought and lack of food is threatening the lives of millions of people from Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti.

On Tuesday, July 26, I read a moving essay about this situation in the Opinion Exchange section of the Star Tribune (www.startribune/opinion.com) titled, “Please Don’t…

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Added by Episcopal Church in Minnesota on July 27, 2011 at 1:45pm — No Comments

Reflections on the Nets for Life campaign

by the Rev. Richard Norman

Some weeks before the arrival of Lent began, our Sunday School at St. Mark's Cathedral, in preparation for the start of our Nets for Life campaign, began to raise the awareness of our Cathedral young people to the reality of malaria for those in sub-Saharan Africa. This stimulated conversations in our household between our children (Hudson, aged 8, and Olivia, aged 6), my wife Adrienne and me. Adrienne and I were able to speak to our children about our own… Continue

Added by Episcopal Church in Minnesota on July 18, 2011 at 2:23pm — No Comments