The Discernment Ministry Team has been busy promoting the General Church's discernment process on the church's response to lesbian and gay Christians.
The team had displays at the Annual Meeting of the Northern California-Nevada region of the Christian Church, April 28-30, Pacific Grove, CA and the Alabama-Northern Florida Regional Assembly, April 28-30, Snow Hill Christian Church in Mt. Willing, AL. A display was also provided by the regional discernment team at the Central Rocky Mountain Regional Assembly, May 4-5, Central Christian Church, Denver Colorado.
The team will also have a display at Mix in '06, the women's event in Indianapolis.
Lisa Haley staffed the display at the Northern California-Nevada meeting and reports that the display provided a valuable presence.
Jan Mackenzie staffed the display at the Alabama-Northern Florida meeting. She reports that Friday evening she didn’t have much traffic at her table, so Saturday morning she took a turn at Speak Out to introduce herself and say a few words about the display. An elderly woman got up to speak in support of the material saying, “It was the best thing I’ve ever done.” After that she had several people stopped by the display to talk.
Richard Daetwiler reports that the display at the Central Rocky Mountain meeting was in the form of a worship center with the Listening to the Spirit books surrounding the Bible and Chalice. The regional discernment team also had regional and GLAD discernment brochures on display. They had a huge bowl with plastic eggs filled with chocolate and slips of paper with “Listening to the Spirit” written on them. Richard reports that the display attracted much attention.
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