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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

July 26, 2005 - Tuesday to Note & To Read

Knitters needed for Seamen's Church Institute's Christmas-at-Sea program

Thinking of Christmas in July

[Episcopal News Service]The Christmas-at-Sea program of Seamen's Church
Institute (SCI) of New York and New Jersey is in need of knitters to
make
scarves, caps, socks and vests for seafarers who come from tropical to
temperate countries and are unprepared for frigid winter weather.

SCI has an extensive ministry for the 30,000 mariners on the inland
waterways called Ministry on the River that includes support from more
than
100 River Friendly Churches in 11 states.

Last year, nearly 14,000 hand-knitted gifts were place onboard vessels
as
tributes to the friendliness and compassion of Americans to seafarers
that
endure substantial physical hardships, and confront dangerous seas.

This year, SCI chaplains are prepared to increase distribution in the
Port
of New York and New Jersey and along 2,200 miles of America's inland
waterways.

To add your name to the 3,500 knitters from every state who contribute
year-round contact Barbara Clauson at 212.349.9090 or
cas@seamenschurch.org
and download patterns at http://www.seamenschurch.org

Note: The following title is available from the Episcopal Book/Resource
Center, 815 Second Ave., New York, NY 10017; 800.334.7626;
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org/.

To Read: TWO COUNTRIES SPEAK: Poems and Remembrances by Joyce P.
Nightingale-Holder, BS, MA, CRNA (IUniverse Inc.; $23.95.)

>From the publisher: Author Joyce P. Nightingale-Holder engages the
sensibilities by tapping into our perception of a myriad of day-to-day
topics. The chapter, The Nature of Things lauds the ingenuity of nature.
The
section entitled Muses of Back Home reconstructs some of the culture and
folklore from the olden days of her native Barbados.

Joyce P. Nightingale is a retired certified registered nurse anesthetist
residing Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Anesthesia for Renal
Transplant; Pathophysiology and Anesthesia Correlations of the Prune
Belly
Syndrome, and The Effects of Clinical Education Settings of Students'
Anxiety Levels.

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