Welcome to our ‘Sphere

Welcome Kyle Roberson to our area-of-influence!  Kyle is currently serving at University UMC in Fort Worth.  His wife, Joy, is the Central Texas Conference’s Associate Director of Mission Ministries/Director of Student Ministries.
I’ve just gotten hold of Kyle’s blog, and share it with you.  It is good reading from a needed perspective within The UMC and [...]

Conference Comments

I am sitting in the morning session of the third day of the 2007 meeting of the Central Texas Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church.
In addition to the regular annual business of reports and budgets and nominations, this year we are electing delegations, lay and clergy, to next year’s General Conference and Jurisdictional [...]

Join Us

The Youth Worker Movement is an organization of, by, and for United Methodist people who work with youth.
If you have ever been involved in youth ministry, you know why this movement is so important. People in youth ministry are too often and too easily isolated from the congregations to which they are related. The average [...]

Worship

In a clergy meeting the other day, we discussed how visitors might experience our various congregations.  Recognizing that the most direct way this experience would happen would be in a worship service, we spent a good deal of time talking about “Getting something out of worship.”
I am for getting something out of worship, but aren’t [...]

Gen what?

I read about the “Gen X?Y” gathering of United Methodists and I wonder, “could I possibly be too old for the edge of United Methodism?”
I approached a group of guys (yes, actually, in this case they were all males) at Annual Conference a couple of years ago. I had meet each of them and [...]

O M G

I’m still processing this, so I will respond more completely to it later, but I found in my email this morning something from the Waco District. Our Conference has decided that in September all our churches will unite in emphasizing the church’s mission: MAKING DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD.
Incredibly, attached [...]

Reflecting on Youth

Youth will very often live to our expectations.
I returned Saturday from a mission trip to Oklahoma. I shared the floor of a church with about 120 other people for a week as we served people in the Oklahoma City area. Teams went out each morning to build ramps, repair roofs, and touch people’s [...]

Out of Order?

I am one day into the annual session of the Central Texas Conference. So far, so good. There has been the usual mix of meanignful, informative reports, and droning monotony.
Overall, it seems there are signs of life and promise in this particular version of American Denominational Bureaucracy. Patience, my son….
One of the things that I [...]

Latest CTC Blogroll

I just did this last week, but they’re still flowing in! From now on I will keep this list updated in a Blogroll off to the right. Thanks for helping!
David Alexander
Dave Brower
Johnny Brower
Justin Czimskey
Stephen Decker
Michael Honza
Rick Mang
Alan McGrath
Traci McGrath
Richard Michener
John Nader
Mike Ramsdell
Dale Scultz
Mark Winter

CTC Methoblogger update

I woke up to an email from Mark Winter calling to my attention another Central Texas Conference blogger, Dale Schultz of St. Philips’s UMC in Round Rock. Dale’s blog is Together.
We also have Mike Ramsedell, Sr. Pastor at FUMC Mansfield, with a blog called, appropriately, Thoughts from Pastor Mike.
For a recap of the others, here [...]