July 12-13, 2019
​Kalamazoo, Michigan

Keynote Speaker:
The Rev. Michael Michie
Episcopal Church Staff Officer for Church Planting Infrastructure
Focusing on Mission Enterprise Zones: how to revitalize your ministries
 
Purpose of the BPG:

• learn about ministries around the Province / Church
• share your knowledge with others
• support each other in new initiatives

​Workshops:

• children's, youth, young adult, intergenerational formation
• Digital Presence for churches (stellar websites and social media)
• travel: pilgrimages and spiritual journeys
• YOUR passion in ministry - Tell us about that!

Call for Worshops

Each workshop will be 90 minutes.  That’s a LONG TIME.  The design team intentionally scheduled that time in order to complete the following:

• Presentation – presenters share information – hopefully including people from different dioceses who do similar programs or their programs have similar themes
• “practice” / play – participants can try out the ideas / concepts / program
• NETWORKING – people have ample time to meet other people in the room, getting to know people, and sharing contact information
  • This can be framed by the leader (“everyone who was interested in talking more about X, go over there” and “everyone who is interested in Y, go to the other area…”) or can be open (“we invite you to connect with others in this room that said things that you’d like to know more about”)
• Action plan – participants create a plan to continue and expand the conversation in the future.  Zoom conversations or mailing lists or facebook pages.  (The Provincial Coordinator is available to help with the future networking.)

 
 
Please prepare your proposal and submit to the Provincial Coordinator, Heather Barta, by Feb 15, 2019
provinceVcoordinator@gmail.com or 989-413-3229