Bishop's Convocation Registration ends on March 4, 2016
To register for the 2016 Bishop's Convocation click here or call the synod office at 315.299.4955 and talk with Karen Brundige.
Rev. Kevin Strickland
Executive for Worship/Assistant to the Presiding Bishop
In an ever-changing world, how do we continue to offer the
Means of Grace, inviting all into these as gifts and not legalistic prescriptions to our faith?
How do we as church leaders offer the Means of Grace, but also receive the Means of Grace?
How do these gifts of grace help shape our liturgy and our own lives of study and prayer?
What are the biggest challenges facing worship today and pastoral care ?
The Rev. Kevin Strickland, will be with us to lead us in learning and conversation around the Means of Grace. Some of the conversation will focus on the questions listed above while others may direct us toward conversations around the issue of lay presidency and best practices regarding the preaching, teaching and sacramental life of the church.
We will gather at St. Michael's in Camillus on Saturday, March 12. Registration will begin at 9:30 with the morning session starting at 10:00 am. Cost is $10, lunch is included. All are invited to attend. This is for lay leaders as well as rostered leaders so that together we may learn and grow and strengthen the witness of the church in this place.
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Kathy Neugent
Executive Assistant to the Bishop
Upstate New York Synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
kneugent@upstatenysynod.org
Phone: 315-299-4955 Fax: 315-299-4981
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