“I want to be in dialogue with you, I want to hear your ideas, your hopes, your ideas, your concerns, your fears,” says Bishop Sean Rowe in a new video. “This is about a collaboration…a kind of experiment that is for the sake of the Gospel, that is for the sake of the mission of the church. I believe that the people in the Rust Belt–the people who live where we do–have the potential to lead the church. And the only way we’re going to do that is together.”

In early 2018, watch for news about listening sessions with Bishop Sean that will take place in Western New York in February and in Northwestern Pennsylvania in April.