Dialogue sessions to explore
aspects of faith sharing

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Besides electing delegates to denominational meetings and voting on action items next month in Corpus Christi, Southwest Texas Conference leaders will discuss faith sharing.
The Council on Ministries has scheduled 21 one-hour discussion sessions June 8 during the
Southwest Texas Annual Conference session.
Those dialogues are to run from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Conference program agencies are organizing each session. Topics include:
> “Offering Christ to All: Learning to Walk in Your Own Shoes,” presented by the Commission on the Status and Role of Women.
> “Everyone is for Evangelism, Right?” presented by the Evangelism Committee of the Board of Discipleship.
> “Who are our Neighbors?” presented by the Hispanic Ministries Commission.
> “A New Day for New Churches,” presented by the New Church Development Commission.
> “Be Transformed: A Romans 12:1-2 Workshop,” presented by the Office of New Church Development and Transformation.”
“Many of the dialogue sessions the Council on Ministries is sponsoring during the conference will offer testimonies and panels on faith sharing,” said Carol Loeb, council chair. “I invite participants to look closely at the dialogue topic descriptions they will receive and choose a group of interest to them.”
To lead into the dialogue time, the Rev. Martha Grace “Gay” Reese is to address the conference session.
A Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) pastor, Reese headed the Mainline Evangelism Project. That four-year project, funded by the Lilly Endowment, explored motivations behind effective evangelism in mainline denominations.
Unbinding the Gospel: Real Life Evangelism, which Reese wrote, reports results of the four-year study.
“I encourage members of the conference to read Gay’s book before they come to Corpus Christi,” Loeb said. “Her book will prepare us to hear a message that could change the way we share the gospel.”
Reese is to lead one of the dialogue sessions.
The Council on Ministries proposed dialogue sessions for 2007 because of positive feedback to similar breakout discussion times at the last two conference sessions, Loeb said.