This year luncheons are available at an additional fee with reservations made during the online registration at http://council-dwtx.org/sign-up/registration/. All activities, including the luncheons, will be at the McAllen Convention Center.
We begin on Thursday, Feb. 16 with the Christian Faith in Action Luncheon at 11:30 am in Meeting Room #103. Cost is $18/person.
“Church beyond the sanctuary: Engaging in christian ministry outside our doors.”
- There is widespread agreement in our Church that God is calling us to be more missional, in other words to engage in Christian ministry in the midst of the world outside our doors. Social service ministry is perhaps the best vehicle we have for beginning to live into this call. Lobban will discuss how the ministry of Good Samaritan Community Services is providing a pattern for living into God’s call to be more missional and for living into our Baptismal Covenant.
- Speaker: The Rev Andrew Lobban, Chaplain at Good Samaritan Community Services (GSCS). This past summer, GSCS welcomed him to the staff as its first chaplain. Lobban graduated with his Masters in Divinity from Seminary of the Southwest (SSW) in May 2011 and was ordained to the diaconate in June. Lobban was appointed to serve as chaplain to the clients, people, and staff at GSCS and as a liaison between the center and the 90 churches of the Diocese of West Texas.
- More details to follow
The Council Luncheon, in Exhibit Hall B next to the Council business session, will be at 12 noon on Friday, Feb. 17.
Cost is $20/person.
“Hoping Against Hope”
- Speaker: The Rt Rev John Bauerschmidt, Bishop, Diocese of Tennessee
- Elected the Eleventh Bishop of the Diocese of Tennessee on October 28, 2006, he also serves as the Episcopal co-chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Ecumenical Dialogue in the United States, and has served on the House of Bishops’ Theology Committee since 2007. He attended General Theological Seminary in New York, from which he graduated in 1984 as Master of Divinity. In 1987 Bauerschmidt matriculated at Oxford University, England, from which he received the D.Phil. degree in 1996. Bishop Bauerschmidt has a professional interest in theology, and an amateur love of history, in particular the history of ideas. In addition to these areas, he reads widely, especially fiction, reportage, and travel literature.
The annual Clergy Spouse Breakfast, in Meeting Room #103, will begin at 7:30 am on FRIDAY (not the traditional Saturday), Feb. 17. Cost is included in the Clergy Spouse registration price.
- Speaker: Mrs. Caroline Bauerschmidt, wife of The Rt Rev John Bauerschmidt
- More details to follow
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