For the pastors beginning new appointments this month — for the boxes not yet unpacked, the names not yet learned, and the families making a home again. Give them patience with themselves and with the congregations receiving them.
— submitted by a member of the orderGrace and peace
Watching over one another in love
This is the shared home of the elders of the Río Texas Annual Conference — a place for the letters we write one another, the prayers we carry together, and the days we set apart to gather. Everything here is public on purpose: the covenant of the order, made visible.
Submit a prayer request"Elders have a fourfold ministry of Word, Sacrament, Order, and Service." The Book of Discipline, ¶ 340
The Prayer Wall
Prayers of the order
For safe travels for all pastors on the road this July — those moving, those on vacation, those driving to camps and mission trips, and those making the long distances this conference asks of them.
— submitted by a member of the orderRequests are reviewed before posting. Please share only what is yours to share — first names or initials for others, and no medical or personal details without consent.
From the Chair
Letters to the order
Who Moves the Rocks
On the parable of the sower — who tends the soil of our lives, and whose rocks we still cling to because familiar feels safer than free.
The Church Doesn't Need Super Pastors
On the exhausting pull toward doing it all, being it all, and giving it all — and why faithfulness isn't the same thing as pleasing everyone.
The Wounds That Remain
On Genesis 22, the silence between Abraham and Isaac afterward, and what it means for the church to tell the truth about the harm it has caused.
Calendar
Gatherings of the order
Sep 13
retreat
Clergy Retreat
Jun 14
conference
Río Texas Annual Conference 2027
Hilliard Center, Corpus Christi