Bishop's Days Faces and Places

“Called Out – Creating New Places for New Faces” is the theme for the 2010 Bishop’s Day, to be held next Saturday, March 13, in Albion, Mt. Pleasant, Caledonia, and Lapeer. The Marquette District event will be in Gladstone on Saturday, March 27.

“The regional leadership teams have assembled an excellent lineup of speakers from across the country to call us out,” Bishop Jonathan D. Keaton said. “With six regional sites across the Detroit and West Michigan Conferences, each offering a wide variety of speakers, I am expecting all churches in the Michigan 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 local churches.”


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.

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 at the  the Marquette region’s Bishop’s Day on Saturday, March 27, at Gladstone: Memorial UMC.
  
Bishop's Day 2010 Schedule

Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors.