2019 Diocesan Convention Speaker Meet the Bishop of Dunwich The Rt. Rev. Mike Harrison “Setting God’s People Free” “We must set God’s people free to live The Rt. Rev. Mike Harrison, Bishop into the mission to proclaim afresh in of Dunwich, England, will be the each generation,” Bishop Mike said. keynote speaker at the 2019 Diocesan “The opposite of a fresh expression Convention in Rock Springs on October is not a stale expression,” he went 4-6, 2019. Bishop Mike is one of the on. “We need both the vital mission trailblazers for Fresh Expressions of of traditional local churches AND Church in the UK. He will speak to the fresh expressions of faith that engage theme of “Setting God’s People Free” effectively with the population who is in the context of a mixed ecology that beyond the reach of traditional rural needs both the traditional church and churches.” fresh expression of faith. After studying Mathematics at From 2006 to 2015, Mike was University, Mike spent a formative Director of Mission and Ministry period in London as a church lay- in Leicester Diocese and, with worker, management consultant and colleagues, developed the Fresh unqualified social worker. It was during Expressions work and Pioneer this time that he began to engage more Ministry as well as piloting diverse deeply with the Christian faith. Mike mission experiments. He became trained at Ripon College, Cuddesdon Bishop of Dunwich in February 2016 and then at Union Theological Seminary, and has a national responsibility for New York, where he studied the Pioneer Ministry as well as being part relationship between psychotherapy and of the national Fresh Expressions theology. Embedding Group. He has written on missional church, theological Mike served his curacy in inner-city education and worship. London. During this time, he also studied for a PhD in Christian doctrine Mike is married to Rachel, an at Kings’ College, London. Mike then Occupational Therapist and they served as a University Chaplain in are blessed with four children Bradford, West Yorkshire. From 1998 aged 16-24. He supports Bolton until 2006 Mike was vicar in suburban Wanderers football club and other South London, seeing particular growth lost causes. among children and families. 9 The Spirit of Wyoming 2019 Summer Spirit.indd 10 6/10/19 3:57 PM.