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Welcome to our Website & Ministry
"Where Church is a Mystery to be Embraced
Rather than a Problem to be Solved."
Growing Your Best
We are your place for Appreciative Inquiry - Affirmative Way based coaching and training to grow the best in you and the people you lead. We invite you to make use of the resources on this site and we look forward to an opportunity to help you manifest your God given talents and purpose in and through your local church.
Why We Love Small Churches
Before being elected as the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Michigan I had served primarily in large congregations with memberships varying from 250 to 1200. I was elected to this new and emerging diocese because of my interest in grassroots mutual ministry team development - which I had begun to do for the Diocese of Minnesota as the chair of its Commission on Ministry. Eastern Michigan is a diocese of mostly small churches which vary in average Sunday attendance from 15 to 200. During my eleven years there I fell in love with the small church. There is something real and genuine about the communal realities in a small church. I discovered that small churches (despite the common misconception to the contrary) are the most capable of healthy change and growth. I have stories to prove it. Check out my page Small is Great tab on this site, to read more about my love and hope for the small church.
- Ed Leidel, Bishop and Congregational Coach in the diocese of Huron