From The Living Church-
The Diocese of Northern Michigan has released a profile and called for nominations as it seeks an 11th bishop.
The profile repeatedly affirms mutual ministry as central to the diocese’s identity, and it identifies a recurring theme of loss and struggle, including financial stresses during the early 20th century and the death of the Rt. Rev. James A. Kelsey in an automobile accident in 2007.
The profile devotes an eight-page appendix to Kelsey’s last annual address as a bishop, which he delivered in October 2006. Another appendix is a nine-page essay, “Creating a Hospitable Environment for Mutual Ministry,” by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Ray, the diocese’s ninth bishop, and Kelsey. Ray is serving as an assisting bishop until the new bishop begins ministry.
Kelsey’s legacy of a “Christ-centered diocese based on Mutual Ministry had greatly increased the quality of the relationships within the diocese,” the profile said. “Undoubtedly, these caring relationships helped ameliorate the grief we experienced with the sudden loss of our bishop. It also, in retrospect, gave us the courage and dedication to cope with the problems the diocese would encounter in 2009 during the unsuccessful consent process of our newly elected bishop, Kevin Thew Forrester.”
Unlike the diocese’s previous search, this process will result in a slate of more than one nominee, and it provides a two-week period for nominations by petition.
More here-
http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2010/5/20/northern-michigan-welcomes-nominees
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