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Blood Pressure Checks this Sunday, March 14 in Heritage Hall.
Wonderful Wednesdays continue through March 24! Join our Lenten Study Series, Missional Jesus, along with dinner (by reservation). Click here to learn more.
Join our follow-up study of the Missional Church (using Reggie McNeal's book, Missional Renais-sance) on Sundays @ 10:30 a.m.
Click here for more information.
Donate to the Deacon Fund! Envelopes are provided in the sanctuary pews and St. Andrew's service bulletins.
Women's Winter Gathering
Date: Thursday, February 11
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Refectory (at the west end of the Kirk campus)
Featuring: Justice Maura Corrigan's presentation on Foster Care Alliance
Reservations: Reservations are due now! Contact the Adult Ministry Office at (248) 626-2515, ext. 117 for more information. (The cost is $20 per person; make checks payable to Women of the Kirk).
Child care is available by reservation. For more information or transportation needs, contact Barbara Eldredge-Everett at bbeverett@comcast.net. You may also contact the Adult Ministry Office at (248) 626-2515, ext. 117.
All women are invited to join us for a very special evening! The keynote
speaker, Maura Corrigan (Supreme Court Justice for the State of Michigan)
will address the topic of Foster Care. What a wonderful opportunity for us to come together to support foster care, an issue that we know can be addressed "better together." (For more information about the Kirk's Foster Care Ministry, click here.)
Justice Maura Corrigan was first elected to the Michigan Supreme Court in
1998 and reelected in 2006. She served two terms as Chief Justice from
2001-2004. In practice, she was an assistant prosecuting attorney in Wayne County, Michigan from 1974 to 1979. In 1979, she became Chief of Appeals in the United States Attorney’s Office in Detroit. In 1986, she became the first woman to be Chief Assistant United States Attorney in Detroit. In 1989, she entered private practice as a partner in the firm of Plunkett & Cooney. She was appointed to the Michigan Court of Appeals in 1992 and became its Chief Judge in 1997. Corrigan graduated magna cum laude from Marygrove College in Detroit in 1969 and cum laude from the University of Detroit Law School in 1973.
