For registration, pricing, and more details:
https://michiganumc.org/starting-sustaining/
WHAT
Gather with creatives, community organizers, and change makers. Hear stories from mission trip leaders and local ministry experts about how they started and restarted. Ask questions, reflect, and imagine what might be next in your setting.
Plenary sessions will include:
A conversation with Rev. Jon Reynolds and Rev. Jefferson Boye Knight on a new model for working together on mission trips based on a recent trip to Liberia.
A conversation with Lydie Kadibwa Ngoie from Motown Mission on how to do local missions based on the Wesley model of Do No Harm, Do Good, and Stay in Love with God.
Workshops will include:
Update by Jody Pratt on the recent VIM jurisdictional conference and VIM mission to Peru.
Updates by Valerie Mossman-Celestin on recent developments in Haiti.
Hear from Corrina Olesen, youth minister at Troy: First UMC on her recent trip to Liberia.
Next steps with Seed to Harvest.
WHO
All are invited. Sponsored by the Michigan Conference Board of Global Ministries.
WHEN
Pre-event get together
Friday, September 26
Come for the mixer, stay to share your experiences of mission trips and local ministry projects.
Event
Saturday, September 27
8:00 am registration and refreshments.
9:00 am - 2:00 pm worship, stories and workshops.
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