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As you enter our Sanctuary you will find a people who are diverse in many ways including color, religious backgrounds, ethnicity, and so many other ways. You will also find our Pastor, Reverend Roy Isaac who is filled with love of God and humanity. A man who expresses his spirituality in his daily life and in all he does. Reverend Isaac's knowledge and expression of God's word inspires those of his congregation to go inward to look personally at their lives and to find their own relationship God's word. You will never be told what to do at Bushnell Congregational Church; but you will have many opportunities to do what you see as God's Will in your life. We belong to Christ" means different things to different people. It packs within it comfort for some; challenge for others; and for many both comfort and challenge. For some, the words unite; for others the words divide. At Bushnell Congregational Church, we pray the words comfort, challenge, and unite. It allows us to be vulnerable to each other, which is our greatest strength. It allows to us to "be" without the desire or need to put forth false impressions designed to present the illusion of conforming to "social norms". We belong to Christ and when you're with Christ, you are your most authentic self. You're home. Please, come 'home' often.
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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 80 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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