District Events

District Conference
Sunday May 16, 2004, 3 p.m.
Wesley House (Wesley Community Center) at the corner of Horne Road and MacArthur Street, Corpus Christi. All clergy, elected lay members of annual conference and alternates are encouraged to attend this important conference. For more information contact Sheila Yuras at the District Office, (361) 852-8268.

Discovery Zone Dinners ’04
Coming to the Corpus Christi District
Thursday, April 29
If you are a youth age 12 to 22 and feel called to ministry, this event is for you! DZ Dinner is a free meal from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. It will be in the Corpus Christi District Thursday, April 29. Discovery Zone: Discovering God’s Call on Your Life is for young people exploring a call to ministry. This year will be the fourth anniversary of Discovery Zone, which is sponsored by the Southwest Texas Conference Council on Youth Ministry in conjunction with the Board of Ordained Ministry. For registration information please contact Cheri Riddle, conference registrar, at (888) 349-4191, Extension 527, or the Rev. Rusty Freeman, youth ministries director, at (210) 408-4510 or rfreeman@ umcswtx.org.

District Youth Professionals meeting
Wednesday, May 12, at noon at the District Office. Bring your lunch, and join other youth leaders in the district.

Confirmation Rally 2004
Saturday, May 8, at First UMC, 106 E. Cleveland, Beeville, from 9:30 a.m. to noon.

Summer camp ’04
For children in grades 3 and 4, camp is scheduled for June 13-15, $100 fee. For children in grades 5 and 6, camp is scheduled for June 20-24, $185 fee. Both camps will be at Mount Wesley Conference Center in Kerrville. Please contact the Southwest Texas Conference Leadership Development Office at (888) 349-4191, Extension 554, or www.umcswtx.org.

Calling all youths
> JAM/Junior High: Mount Wesley, June 27-July 1, $200 fee
> WINDSONG/ Senior High: HEB Foundation, July 11-15, $150 fee
> COMANCHE/ Junior High: HEB Foundation, July 11-15, $150 fee
> QUEST/ Senior High: Mount Wesley, July 18-22, $200 fee
Contact the Rev. Rusty Freeman, youth ministries director, at (210) 408-4510, (888) 349-4191, rfreeman@umcswtx.org or www.reachingyouth.org.

Corpus Christi District
Young United Methodist Women
Young United Methodist Women are planning a meeting Saturday, May 8, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Wesley UMC, 3915 Gollihar at Weber (Education Building). Please send one or more young women, ages 13-35, to represent your church at this initial planning meeting. It will be very informal. We primarily want input from this age group as we meet to ”brainstorm” how to organize a districtwide gathering or event for Young United Methodist Women. Bring calendars! For more information contact Glenda Sanders at (361) 992-7985.