Mission team will spend Christmas in Sudan
In the latest development of the companion relationship between the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri and the Diocese of Lui -- part of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan -- a team of eight missioners will spend the Christmas and New Years holidays in Sudan. Eight Missouri Episcopalians, including the wife of Bishop Wayne Smith, arrived in Lui on December 18. They will return to the United States on January 8.
The Dioceses of Lui and Missouri entered into a companion relationship in 2006.
The purpose of the trip is to pursue four major objectives:
• a medical assessment to ascertain how the Diocese of Missouri can contribute to health care in the Diocese of Lui;
• assist in the set-up of a grinding mill operation, which Missouri is helping to fund through a United Thank Offering Grant of $19,000;
• explore how parish-to-parish relationships between Missouri and Lui congregations might be established; and
• further establish infrastructure (buildings and technology) in Lui.
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_103911_ENG_HTM.htm
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