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Constitutional
Amendment Results
On Saturday June 6, 2009 during the final Annual Conference business session the delegation voted on ratifying 32 Proposed Constitutional Amendments from General Conference.
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Please join us and Bishop Dorff for
United Methodist Church Night
with the San Antonio Silver Stars
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Walk to Emmaus
A Journey with Christ
The Walk to Emmaus is a threeday
experience which takes a New
Testament look at Christianity as
a lifestyle. It is a highly structured
weekend designed to strengthen
and renew the faith of Christian
people, and through them their
families, congregations and the
world in which they live.
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New Church Development
and Transformation
To grow vibrant new congregations
and transform existing congregations
in outreach to their community with
the love and hope of the gospel of
Jesus Christ.
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Scenes from 2009
Annual Conference
Youths repair, refurbish homes for needy Sea City Work Camp encourages
Students at Sea City Work Camp fill bins with trash collected from home sites.In one week, they change a life forever.
More than 100 students gave up a week of their summer vacation to help repair homes in the Corpus Christi area during Sea City Work Camp June 14-19.
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Youth Choir Rally to change name, purpose in 2010
For the past 48 years, Youth Choir Rally has been a standard for youth ministry within the Southwest Texas Conference. A choral-based youth event, involving thousands of participants, Youth Choir Rally is undergoing some changes in both name and purpose. Beginning in 2010, Youth Choir Rally will be known as the “Youth Worship Conference.”
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Leader offers 10 practical steps to effective year-round stewardship
The Southwest Texas Conference Commission on Stewardship recently developed ten practical steps to year-round stewardship. The hope behind these suggestions is to assist congregational lay and clergy leadership in visibly modeling faithful Christian stewardship as a way of life. Regular testimonies and seasonal giving can turn autumn from a season of stress to the time of thanksgiving that it is intended to be.
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than 120,000 members in 350 congregations across the
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Jim Dorff
Bishop
San Antonio Area
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AREA EPISCOPAL ADDRESS - 2009
Southwest Texas and Rio Grande Annual Conference
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I want to express again to you all the deep sense of gratitude Barbara and I feel as we experience together our new reality as Bishop and spouse of the San Antonio Area. Your warm reception, ready smiles, keen awareness of the presence of the risen Christ in our midst, and your overall radical hospitality confirms something we already knew: should I be elected a Bishop of the church, it would be a great blessing for us to be assigned to the San Antonio Area. Barbara and I are also deeply grateful and indebted to Bishop Joel and Mrs. Raquel Martínez. Their outstanding leadership, deep love of this Area and their welcoming spirit will forever be appreciated by us both.
We feel at home, at peace, and excited to be among you. Clearly, God has called us to a season of ministry with and for you. We seek your continuing prayers, as you have ours, for our journey together. May God grant us wisdom, insight, strength, and courage. I firmly believe that our journey together will be faithful, fun, forward-looking, challenging, and productive. Almighty God has brought us to this time and place. I know that Almighty God will continue on the important journey before us.
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