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Bushnell's beautiful spire rising above the busy
Southfield Freeway is a visible symbol, day and night of the service
our church has provided the community during the past 8 0 years.
The urban Bushnell Congregational Church of 2006 exists in a different
world from the little wooden chapel on unpaved Mill road 50 years
ago. The Women’s Crisis Center, the Food Donation Program,
The Farmer’s Market and the Computer Technology Lab are means
which Bushnell is meeting present-day needs, as the Sunday Sunshine
School did in 1926. As times have changed and the needs of the community
(and indeed the diversity of that community) changed, our church
has been at the forefront providing spiritual and resource-based
support to those in need.
Our church, built in Classic Georgian Style for an estimated 2.5 (over
12 million in today’s values) dollars in the nineteen 30’s,
was the vision of Detroit’s elite of the day. Our congregation’s
members list read like a Who’s Who in America. At the forefront of
the church’s mission was a commitment to serve the families and the
surrounding community at-large. Bushnell was born as were many of it’s
present day members in the optimism of the 1920’s, survived the depression
with grace, matured through the wars, developed and prospered during the
years that followed and struggled with it’s identity through the
1960’s and 70’s.
Today, with the leadership of Reverend Roy Isaac, the church thrives,
seeking opportunities to worship and serve a changing, diverse urban
population. Diversity which is at the center of Reverend Isaac’s
vision is challenged by a world which stresses exclusion instead
of inclusion.. Reverend Isaac’s
pushes the envelope with a mission to make the world a place of tolerance
and peace through diversity. Bushnell Congregational Church is at
the center of and often hosts numerous community-action meetings
which strive for solutions to present-day urban problems.
The church through numerous outreach programs and it’s
web sites: bushnellchurch.org, bushnellchurch.com and bushnellchurch.net,
is continuing to look forward in a changing world of globalization,
while standing on its core values which have remained constant over
the past 80 years.
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