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Michigan Area looks ahead to Bishop's Day 2010

Bishop Jonathan D. Keaton announced on Aug. 5 that, “Called Out – Creating New Places for New Faces” will be the theme for the 2010 Bishop’s Day.The event will be held in six regions across the Michigan Area on selected Saturdays during March.

“The teams have assembled an excellent lineup of speakers from across the country,” Bishop Keaton said. “With six sites across the Detroit and West Michigan Conferences, each offering a wide variety of speakers, I am expecting all churches in the Area to send a team of leaders to at least one of these events so that we all can become more effective at creating new places for new faces in our churches.”

The Detroit East/Detroit West region will host Bishop’s Day on Saturday, March 6, at Southfield: Hope UMC. Steve Sjogren (www.stevesjogren.com) who is known nationwide for his passion and leadership in the area of servant evangelism, will be the keynote speaker. Sjogren, the senior leader and founder of Coastland Tampa in Tampa, Fla., will also be keynoting the Marquette region’s Bishop’s Day on Saturday, March 27, at Gladstone: Memorial UMC.

Bishop Robert Schnase (www.fivepractices.org), author of The Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations, will headline the Albion/Ann Arbor/Lansing region Bishop’s Day on Saturday, March 13, at the Goodrich Chapel on the campus of Albion College in Albion. Schnase has served as the bishop of the Missouri Area since 2004.

The Bishop’s Day for the Heartland/Grand Traverse/Saginaw Bay region will take place on Saturday, March 13, at Mount Pleasant: First UMC. The Rev. Mike Slaughter (www.mikeslaughter.com), chief dreamer and lead pastor of Ginghamsburgh Church in Tipp City, Ohio will be the guest speaker. Slaughter was appointed to Ginghamsburg in 1979, where worship attendance hovered at 90 with 118 members and an annual budget of $27,000. Currently, 4,000 attendees on average worship weekly at Ginghamsburg and the multi-million dollar budget helps resource a faith community committed to serving the poor, lost and disenfranchised.

Scott Rigsby (www.scottrigsby.com) , the first double-amputee to complete the 140.6-mile World Ironman Triathlon, will speak at the Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo region Bishop’s Day on Saturday, March 13, at Cornerstone Church in Caledonia. Rigsby’s incredible story is a unique journey of success and failures that all started with a decision and the desire to never quit, no matter what, no matter how long. His story is one of overcoming challenges to achieve the unthinkable. He speaks with clarity, passion, purpose, and humor about the persistence needed to achieve what we think is beyond our reach.

The Flint/Port Huron region Bishop’s Day will be held at Lapeer: Trinity UMC on Saturday, March 13, with Celinda Hughes (www.umcom.org), Strategic Marketing Associate at United Methodist Communications, as the keynote speaker.

For more information, please contact:

Mark Doyal, Director of Communications, West Michigan Conference

517-336-0850, mdoyal@wmcumc.org

Paul Thomas, Associate Director of Communications, Detroit Annual Conference

906-396-4746, pthomas@detroitconference.org