Invitation to Write Prayers

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Say a Prayer. Change the world. “Lifting Women’s Voices: Ending Poverty through Prayer and Action” will be a new book of prayers by Anglican women and girls focusing on the Millennium Development Goals. While worldwide attention is focused on discord and division, Anglican women and girls can unite to make our voices heard on issues of poverty and women’s empowerment, express the power and depth of our faith, and reveal our connections across cultural and economic differences, by contributing prayers for this book. To be published under the Morehouse imprint of Church Publishing, Inc., “Lifting Women’s Voices” will reveal how Anglican women and girls world-wide are deeply connected by global issues, even across cultural and economic divides—and affirm that nurturing our inner lives of prayer offers us the courage to care and advocate not just for ourselves, but for our sisters throughout the Anglican Communion. Each chapter of the new book, which will have a multicultural global reach, will focus on one of the Millennium Development Goals. Prayers will show the connections between the global concerns of women and girls and their personal lives. Already “Lifting Women’s Voices” is receiving the endorsement of prominent Anglican women leaders. The Most Rev. Katherine Jefferts Schori, the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, is writing the preface. Helping to choose prayers for publication are Mrs. Jane Williams, a theologian and author who is the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury; Dr. Jenny Te Paa, Ahorangi, or Dean, of Te Rau Kahikatea, the College of St. John the Evangelist in Auckland, New Zealand; Mrs. Phoebe Griswold, a founding member of Anglican Women’s Empowerment; and the Rev. Margaret R. Rose, Director of The Episcopal Church’s Center for Mission Leadership. All royalties from the sale of “Lifting Women’s Voices” will benefit the International Anglican Women’s Network and Episcopal Relief and Development. Speak your truth, claim your voice, send in your prayer. Invite other Anglican women and girls to send in their prayers, too. To learn about the Millennium Development Goals and the new book, including how to submit a prayer, see the Frequently Asked Questions page on Church Publishing’s website: www.churchpublishing.org. Then, email your prayer to prayers@cpg.org by September 15, 2008.