Celebratory Evensong Sermon

On Sunday, September 19th, 2021, members of ECMN gathered for a celebratory evensong service, at which Bishop Loya was formally seated at Saint Mark's Cathedral, Kelsey Schuster was made canon to the diocese, Lee Grim, Rena Turnham, and Chip Whitacre were installed as archdeacons, and Bishop Loya received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from his seminary, Berkeley School of Divinity at Yale University. The Reverend Canon Lydia Kelsey Bucklin, Canon to the Ordinary for Discipleship and Vitality in the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, preached. Watch her sermon below, or read it here.