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  1. New Detroit Conference website coming on December 1, 2009!
  2. New issue of MyCom available at http://bit.ly/TP0Uh; Good stuff for web and summer ministries in there, (via @UMCommunication)
  3. Hymnal revision stopped due to lack of funds http://tr.im/lVv2 (via @UMNS)
  4. #2009dac Over $1700 collected in spontaneous offering for youth service fund during final plenary session
  5. #2009DAC Rev. Lynch - retiree - "I preached for free and taught bible for free. You paid me to go to the darn meetings!"
  6. Change raises trust issues in church http://tr.im/ltlj (via @UMNS)
  7. United Methodist agencies coping with economic crisis http://tr.im/ltli (via @UMNS)
  8. #2009DAC Voting on the constitutional amendments has begun. After the vote, the conference will recess until 8:00 a.m. Saturday morning.
  9. #2009DAC Shorter annual conference sessions, but more frequent meetings? Sound off with your opinions!
  10. bishop palmer: serve the mission, not save the institution #2009DAC (via @mjmm)
  11. Palmer - leadership - "It may be time for disruptive innovations in the life of our organization." #2009DAC
  12. Bishop Palmer: If the leadership discussion is about how are we going to get more preachers, then we’re gonna fail.#2009DAC (via @Stemc4)
  13. #2009DAC Bishop Palmer :Consensus our way of saying we don’t anybody to leave the meeting mad. (via @Stemc4)
  14. Palmer - "We have a huge recruitment problem - both in terms of baptismal ministry and the ordered ministry." "Our bench is weak." #2009DAC
  15. Palmer - "We've kind of sold the ministry to a professional class." #2009DAC
  16. #2009DAC Back in session after an afternoon at the ministry fair . . . Bishop Palmer is speaking on Leadership Development.
  17. Palmer says church is in ‘sweet spot’ for change http://tr.im/lmXt (via @UMNS)
  18. Live #2009DAC conference blog - www.umc-detconf.org/blog
  19. #2009dac Opening Worship 2009 Detroit Annual Conference http://yfrog.com/5693148747j
  20. #2009dac Bishop Keaton - "revival will not come to Michigan if we wait for some other person or some other time."