SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Hope & Healing: Engaging Indigenous Cosmologies & the Gospel in Action
Friday, October 17
9:30 am -4:30 pm
Terrace Bay Hotel in Gladstone
Join Sarah Augustine and Sheri Hostetler, co-founders of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery and authors of So We and Our Children May Live: Following Jesus in Confronting the Climate Crisis for a day-long, participatory workshop.
In partnership with Episcopal Divinity School, this experience will guide you in embodying the dismantlement of the Doctrine of Discovery through hopeful and creative practice. We will engage with both the Gospel and Indigenous cosmologies, working in community towards restoration and healing.
Throughout the day, you will:
- Co-identify an Economy of Life
- Get Grounded in the Soil
- Start or Continue to Develop a Decolonizing Lens
This workshop is designed for hands-on engagement, featuring working table groups throughout the day to help you identify actions and commitments, encounter fellow community members, and commit to action and communal accountability.
Diocesan Convention Registration and Opening Eucharist
Friday, October 17
6:30- Registration
7 pm- Eucharist
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Escanaba
Following the workshop, participants are invited to get dinner on their own. Workshop participants are then invited to experience decolonizing liturgy, music, and worship space in the celebration of the Eucharist Friday evening at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Escanaba, in partnership with the annual convention of the Diocese of Northern Michigan. Registration for convention opens at 6:30, with the worship following at 7 pm.
129th Diocesan Convention
Saturday, October 18
Bay College, 2001 N Lincoln Road, Escanaba
8:30 am— Registration and Refreshments
9:00 am— Business Session with Bishop’s Address and Elections
11:00 am— Living Stories presentation
12:00 pm— Lunch
1:00 pm— Convention Reconvenes for remaining business
2:15 pm— Close of Convention
2:30 pm— Mutual Ministry seminar and conversation with Visitors
Documents for the 129th diocesan convention
Below are additional important documents for the 129th Diocesan Convention, including budget, reports, nomination forms, and minutes from the 128th convention. All will be available by the 129th convention.