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1. Part Two Background Information ENTER

2. Background Information Contents I. Author II. Location III. Communion

3. Background Information Contents Ⅰ. Author Anwar F. Accawi Teaching Experiences Works Comments on Works

4. I. Author—Anwar F. Accawi • Born in Lebanon in a family whose ancestors are believed to have gone to Jerusalem in the Crusades. • While he was living in Lebanon teaching English as a second language at the American University in Beruit, he married an American woman from Tennessee. To be continued on the next page.

5. I. Author—Anwar F. Accawi • When the civil war broke out in Lebanon, Anwar F. Accawi and his wife were forced to leave the country and eventually moved to her native city of La Follette, Tennessee, and later settled down in the States. • Anwar F. Accawi currently teaches as a full-time instructor at the English Language Institute of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. • He has lived and taught in the U.S. since 1965.

6. I. Author—Teaching Experiences • As a teacher of ESL/EFL for thirty-two years. • He has taught in the USA and in Lebanon, first at the National Evangelical Institute and then at Sidoon High School, Sidon, Lebanon, and also taught at the American University of Beirut before coming to the University of Tennessee in 1979. • He has also trained students planning to become ESL teachers.

7. Author— Works Anwar is a published writer whose work has appeared in books, literary anthologies, reviews, and college textbooks in the USA and abroad. • Bibliography • Short Fiction "The Camera" in Homeworks(1996) • Non-Fiction The Boy from the Tower of the Moon(1999) (Luminous memoir from a Lebanese village boy) To be continued on the next page.

8. Author— Works • With the telephone everything is done. We can get our mail, buy groceries, do research, create websites, and get the latest news. On the Internet, you can learn everything: how to cook, and how to make a bomb. The telephone, for Accawi, was, in fact, a bad news. As for the world as a whole, the telephone brought great technological advances and the world would be a totally different place without it.

9. I. Author—Comments on Works • Cynthia Ozick selected “The Telephone” for the best American Essays in 1998. • Publishers Weekly described the piece as a memorizing and magical account of a boy's childhood,“a loving rendering of the Lebanese village of his childhood, where time was measured not by calendars and clocks, not by events—‘the year of whirlwind during which fish and orange fell from the sky’ and ‘after the big snow that caused the roof on the mayor’s house to cave in’.” —December 30, 2002 To be continued on the next page.

10. I. Author—Comments on Works “If Mark Twain had been born in Magdaluna, Lebanon, instead of Hannibal, Missouri, his most enchanting character would have been named not Tom but Anwar. Here, then, is Anwar Accawi’s Tom Sawyerish boyhood in an idyll of village life—endearing, simple yet rich, given countless escapades and delights, where news and gossip and a sense of civilized fulfillment flow lavishly and purely, despite the absence of radio and telephone. To be continued on the next page.

11. I. Author—Comments on Works But modernity does come, and so do the devastations of civil war. All that is left of the old Magdaluna resides in Anwar Accawi’s memory, and in this radiant record of a childhood as engaging and lively as Tom’s.” —Cynthia Ozick To be continued on the next page.

12. I. Author—Comments on Works Comments: “I cannot think of another book I've read with greater passion. Anwar F. Accawi possesses the ability to draw the reader into the mind of a five-year-old boy, and into the creative way its thinking process helps him understand the world around him. To be continued on the next page.

13. I. Author—Comments on Works At the crossroads of change in the 1940s, the Mount Lebanon village of Magdaluna has very colorful and unique characters living at the fringe of what (then) modern life had to offer. The five year old Anwar untethers his mind to describe the village, villagers and their changing way of life.” The end of Comments on Works.

14. Location Magdaluna: a village that lies in the Lebanon Mountains running parallel to the Mediterranean coastline. A narrow plain lies along the Mediterranean coastline. In some places the plain is just wide enough for a road. Sidon: a city on Lebanon’s southern coast, approximately 25 miles south of Beirut. It is one of the country’s largest ports and one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In 1985, the city had approximately 100,000 residents. The end of Location.

15. Communion • What is a Sacrament in the United Church of Christ? • Sacraments are ritual actions in worship which, according to Scripture, were instituted by Jesus. In the sacraments of baptism and communion we ask the Holy Spirit to use water, bread, and wine to make visible the grace, forgiveness, and presence of God in Christ. To be continued on the next page.

16. Communion—Origin • The communion meal recalls the table fellowship Jesus shared with his disciples, and in particular the Last Supper on the night before his death as well as his appearances to the disciples during meals following his resurrection. Throughout its history, these Biblical accounts of Last Supper have been central to the Church's worship life. To be continued on the next page.

17. Communion—Meaning • In the sacrament of Holy Communion, also called the Lord's Supper or Eucharist, meaning "thanksgiving", Christians hear, taste, touch and receive the grace of God revealed through Jesus Christ in a unique way. • Communion is: a joyous act of thanksgiving for all God has done, is doing, and will do for the redeeming of creation. To be continued on the next page.

18. Communion—Elements the broken bread and poured wine→the crucified and risen Christ the wheat (to bake one loaf) and the grapes (pressed to make wine) → they are one body in Christ the breaking and pouring→ the costliness of Christ's sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin Some churches provide non-alcoholic and gluten-free elements. To be continued on the next page.

19. Communion—Service How is Communion served? • The pastor presides at the Table, normally assisted by elders or deacons • the sharing of a common loaf or bread and the sharing of a common cup or of individual cups either at the Table or in the pews • (Intinction) Dipping the bread in the wine is also an acceptable practice. To be continued on the next page.

20. Communion—Service How often is Communion served? • In the early church Communion was served weekly. • Gradually the frequency of Communion decreased in many Protestant churches. • Many congregations are moving toward monthly or weekly Communion. To be continued on the next page.

21. Communion—Service Who may receive Communion? • In most United Church of Christ churches, the Communion Table is "open to all Christians who wish to know the presence of Christ and to share in the community of God's people" (Book of Worship), even including Christian baptized children and even infants. To be continued on the next page.

22. Communion—Service • A PRAYER Father in heaven, you call us into communion with you and with one another: Bless and strengthen the ties that bind us in the Anglican Communion, that we may be one as you and your Son Jesus are one, through the same Jesus Christ, who with you is the author and unifier of all creation, and who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. The end of Communion

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