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175th Diocesan Convention looks at Repentance, Renewal, and Revitalization
“Without some transformation of our perceptions, we are out of step with God's mission and thus at risk of being declared irrelevant”
Bishop Wendell Gibbs

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OCTOBER 2009

* The Emrich Retreat Center at Parishfield

NOVEMBER 2009

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by Herb Gunn

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.

SEE full story HERE

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 Whole Truth:
Episcopal Church: 'linked to and mired in racism'

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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The Record introduces new magazine for 2010

After months of preparation, The Record Editorial Board released a preview issue of the new magazine that will be the flagship publication for the Diocese of Michigan beginning in 2010. The Record has been in a transition for more than a year so that news is now updated every week through The Record Weekly. Every household distribution of the monthly newspaper will be replace with every household circulation of The Record magazine quarterly.

Bishop Wendell Gibbs spoke approvingly of the new magazine during his convention remarks. The bishop also annonced a new Diocese of Michigan Web site. The new site is available at the traditional address: www.edomi.org

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Cathedral Church of St. Paul partners with Advantage Health Centers; dedicates health clinic on Cathedral Green

by Herb Gunn

Advantage Health Centers, a healthcare agency for low income, homeless, and under- and uninsured people of Detroit, cut the ribbons on the doors of a new healthcare facility on Thursday, November 19.

The doors themselves are familiar to some Episcopalians. The renovated facility was the small gymnasium of the Herlong Cathedral School and part of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul near Wayne State University in Detroit. Over the past three months, major renovation of the building has redesigned its mission from sports to healthcare. A dozen exam rooms have been honeycombed into the former open space, along with administrative space and offices.

Last year, the AHC Waller Health Center on West Grand Blvd. served 3,400 homeless individuals during more than 9,000 health care appointments. The new facility will permit Advantage to double the number of people the agency sees each year, to over 6,000 people.

“Offering greater access to the ‘miracles’ of modern healthcare completely resonates with the Church’s mandate to heal the sick and care for those in need,” said Dean Scott Hunter, dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul which is a partner in the new outreach ministry. “What we do today is an incarnate step toward loving our neighbor.”

Fellow Episcopalian Joseph Fergurson, who is the executive director of Advantage Health Centers, called the new facility “an outward and visible symbol of an inward and spiritual grace at the corner on Woodward Avenue.”


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