The 175th annual Diocesan Convention gathered on Friday and Saturday, October 23-24, in Lansing where lay and clergy delegates representing 86 churches and two university chaplaincies worshiped, considered a handful of resolutions, and approved a diocesan budget for 2010.

Highlighting the weekend convention was the Saturday morning worship service in which the Rev. Stephen Marsh, bishop of the Southeast Michigan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, preached a spirited sermon asking Episcopalians to embrace the ways God desires us to change because God's love for us never does. A choir under the direction of John Repulski, Director of Music & Organist at Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, accented the convention worship.

Bishop Wendell Gibbs followed worship on Saturday with his address to the diocese. Bishop Gibbs demonstrated through visual and verbal example that things are not always as they appear, and that people are often conditioned to see what is not really there.

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SEE the results of elections at Diocesan Convention HERE.
See the action Diocesan Convention took on Resolutions HERE.
SEE the results from The Record 18th annual Church Newsletter awards HERE

The pillars of racism were challenged on Saturday, October 31, when over 100 people participated in a Service of Repentance for Slavery and Continuing Racism in the Church and society.

In response to Resolution 12 from the Diocese of Michigan Diocesan Convention in 2008, and in response to Resolution A123 of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 2006, the Office of the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan announces the designation of Saturday, October 31, 2009, as a Day of Repentance.

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