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The Rev. Lauren R. Stanley with her students at the Renk Bible College in Renk, Sudan.
Photo by Madjur Chol Deng. <\/div>\n

The Rev. Lauren R. Stanley, the Episcopal Church’s only full-time missionary serving in Sudan, will speak on 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26 on "Preaching, Teaching and Living Hope: a missionary view of Sudan," in Strite Auditorium of the Campus Center. <\/p>\n

A priest of the Diocese of Virginia, she will talk about her work in South Sudan as well as the overall situation this war-torn African nation, including the genocide in Darfur.<\/p>\n

More Information <\/h2>\n

Stanley has been an ECUSA missionary since July 2005 and is back in the United States because of precarious security issues in Sudan. <\/p>\n

A 1997 graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary, she served dioceses in Virginia before becoming a full-time missionary. <\/p>\n

She is the author of the "Short-Term Mission Handbook," written for the Diocese of Virginia, and is a national newspaper columnist. <\/p>\n

Stanley was a journalist for more than 20 years as well as a Peace Corps volunteer serving in Kenya in the mid-1980s. <\/p>\n

Admission to the program, sponsored by EMU’s language and literature department<\/a>, Bible and religion department<\/a>, campus ministries<\/a> and the Student Government Association<\/a>‘s Student Lecture Series, is free. <\/p>\n

For more information, call the language and literature department at 540-432-4168.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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