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General Convention 2009 news

The Diocesan Deputation for General Convention will be leaving Sunday and Monday of next week for Anaheim.
Some of the issues on the table this year will be a Denominational Health Plan, a resolution to establish full communion with the Northern and Southern Provinces of the Moravian Church, including sharing in the historic episcopate and interchangeability of ministries, and restoring the Millennium Development Goals as a line item in the operating budget.

Additionally there are 2 sessions set aside for the House of Deputies for discussion of B033 (passed in 2006) and 2 sessions focusing on Mission Conversation through Public Narrative, (a process that can be used to articulate the call to action that is rooted in one's own journey and that of one's community).

Please check the diocesan website at www.diomil.org for a daily update on the Convention. A new posting will be made, with a different deputy making the posting each day.

We hope you will keep the General Convention in your prayers. Dates of the Post - Convention Hearings in the Diocese are August 4 at 5:30 p.m., St. Luke's Madison and August 8 at 8:30 at Trinity, Wauwatosa.

David Pfaff and Mitzi Roy, Co-Chair
2009 Deputation for General Convention

UW-Whitewater

Campus Ministry

Greetings from the UW-Whitewater Campus Ministry! If you have young adults attending the UW-Whitewater this fall, please let me know. Your personal contact may be the only way I hear about your student being on campus! You can send the student info via e-mail to dhuxrev@sbcglobal.net or call me at 262.749.1168. Also, if you would like to do a pulpit exchange, I would be glad to come and speak about campus ministry. In addition, I and members of our campus ministry board are available to come and speak to your assorted church orgainizations during the week. Requests can be made via the e-mail and phone listed above.

Thank you!
The Rev. Dave Huxley

Cathedral Book Sale July 30-August 4

(by Patricia Nakamura) Medieval alchemists struggled to turn lead into gold. The people of All Saints' Cathedral in Milwaukee have for more than 25 years practiced a more useful alchemy. They turn books into bread.

This year, the 28th annual Great Hunger Book Sale begins on July 30, with more than 40,000 used books filling the Guild Hall dining room, library, hallways, a Sunday school classroom, and several steps leading to second-floor offices. Sunday's coffee hour is relegated to the kitchen. If previous years' sales are any indication, about $25,000 will have been raised by the last day, August 4, for local, national, and international food pantries, meal programs, and disaster relief.

(Click here to read more)

St. Francis House

A request from St. Francis House (SFH) on the UW-Madison campus: If you know of anyone in your congregation who will be attending UW-Madison in the fall, please e-mail The Rev. Tom Ferguson, interim chaplain, at St. Francis House at chaplain@stfrancisuw.org . SFH cannot always rely on getting information about religious affiliation from the University for incoming freshmen, so finding out from the parish is crucial.

Church Development Institute

Now is the time to sign up for Church Development Institute. If you have questions about the program please contact Gary Manning or Peggy Worzalla. If you would like to know how the program has begun to make a difference in the parish please see our CDI site and ask people who have attended. Parishes who have graduates are St. Paul's, Watertown; St. Alban's, Sussex; St. Bart's, Pewaukee; St. John's, Elkhorn; St. Aidan's, Hartford; Trinity, Baraboo; Resurrection, Mukwonago; St. Matthew's, Kenosha; and St. Luke's, Madison . . to name a few.

Is your parish working on a Millenium Development Goal project?

The Commission on Global Reconciliation will be meeting July 25 to recommend to the diocese allocation of the 0.7% funds for projects that work toward meeting the Millenium Development Goals. If your parish is engaged in such a project and would like to apply for diocesan funds, please send your request to: Deacon Carol Smith, 4522 Aztec Trail, Fitchburg, WI 53711.

Send us your photos!

We would like to highlight the various contexts of our diocese with pictures of scenery as well as photos of people engaged in parish activities, outreach, missions, etc. e-mail your photos to Peggy Worzalla at worzalla@diomil.org and then be sure to look at our website to see the beauty and action in the Diocese of Milwaukee www.diomil.org .

The above photo is currently featured on the home page of the diocesan website. It is Paradise Springs in the Kettle Moraine Southern Unit Park where our Fresh Start group spent a day of hiking and enjoying the beauty of a spring day in Wisconsin.

Bishop Miller Time

Join us on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 7:05 p.m. at Miller Park for our 3rd Annual Diocesan Day at Miller Park as we watch the Brewers take on the Phillies. For additional information contact Diane Blank finance@diomil.org 414-272-3028

or John Bussey busseyjohn@sbcglobal.net .