(VIDEO) Parish redevelopment in Flyover country
Canon Peggy Bean and leaders from the Diocese of Milwaukee talk about the exciting parish redevelopment going on in Flyover country.
Innovation in Milwaukee
This article orginally appeared on Episcopal News Service. For some, deciding to start a campus ministry from scratch may not seem like the most logical step to grow their church community. After all, college students are by nature transient and unlikely to become sustaining members of the parishes they attend while in college. But for St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it seemed the right choice because of its location just a few blocks south of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, or UWM. “I thought it would be irresponsible not to develop a ministry for our closest neighbors,” said the Rev. Ian Burch, St. Mark’s rector. “These students are in our mission field.” Burch began serving at St. Mark’s in January 2016, so he was relatively…