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Dean’s Bulletin Board 12.17.2018
Pray for our brothers and sisters in China. http://www.anglican.ink/article/chinese-police-arrest-pastor-and-100-members-early-rain-covenant-church-midnight-raids – Andrew p.s. Pastor Wang Yi’s letter from jail is a remarkable witness for the Lord Jesus Christ: http://www.anglican.ink/article/letter-chinese-jail-my-declaration-faithful-disobedience
Dean’s Bulletin Board 11.01.2018
I have mentioned before the paltry, but in vast quantities, news coverage we “enjoy” in the States. This story has gone largely unmentioned in our country, but is front page news worldwide. I listened to the BBC give over half an hour to the story just the other day. It is a cause for rejoicing […]
Dean’s Bulletin Board 8.02.2018
While traveling abroad this summer, I was struck by the content of foreign newspapers. That is, just how much news was in them. It alarms me that news websites and newspapers in the States have such limited coverage, leaving us in the dark on issues they do not deem newsworthy. This piece, from the Australian […]
DBB 8.30.2017a: Anglicans Flee from Sudan to Uganda
What is happening in South Sudan is being ignored in the U.S. This is catastrophic and we need to be praying for our brothers and sisters in South Sudan as well as Uganda. http://sydneyanglicans.net/news/church-flees-into-exile – Andrew
Dean’s Bulletin Board 3.12.2017
This is remarkable. We take for granted our baptism, many reducing it to a simple rite of passage. This story illustrates the fact that it really is a matter of life and death. http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2017/march/public-baptism-ex-muslim-loses-torture-lawsuit-tulsa-syria.html – Andrew
Dean’s Bulletin Board 10.13.2016
Pray for them, but also engage. I’ll be meeting in coming weeks with a bishop in the Church of Nigeria about how the Advent can partner with them in this crisis. – Andrew http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2016/10/13/they-survived-boko-haram-now-millions-in-nigeria-face-a-new-threat-starvation/
Dean’s Bulletin Board 3.08.2016
For a number of years now, the Advent has dedicated the entirety of its Good Friday offering to the ministry of Christ Church, Jerusalem. Traditionally, in the Episcopal Church, the offering has gone to the province of Jerusalem and the Middle East. Carrying on that tradition, I would encourage you to give this Good Friday […]