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Welcome to the 45th Annual
Meeting
Please note that food
and housing reservations
are currently closed
The theme for this year’s Annual Meeting
is “Go Global!” We will welcome and host five of our
national staff from the Global Ministries office.
Intentionally seeking to focus on our relationships
within the Church, we also want to be intentional about
those relationships that we are called to enter because
we are the Church. Many of the decisions regarding this
Annual Meeting have been made with this objective in
mind.
We will meet on the campus of Huston-Tillotson
University. Within our Congregational history, the
American Missionary Association founded Tillotson
College in 1881. It was one of nine predominantly
African-American colleges founded by the AMA in the
effort to make a college education available to African
Americans in the South after the slaves were freed. One
option for lodging will include staying in a suite-style
dormitory. Fellowship opportunities are enhanced anytime
a number of people stay in close proximity to one
another.
The general plenary sessions will combine the necessary
business of the conference interspersed throughout with
“Go Global! Mission Moments” presented by the national
staff by those ministries within our own conference.
Calle Rogers-Witte will give our Keynote Address and two
of the national staff will provide the sermons during
the Friday night and Sunday morning worship
celebrations.
Two receptions will occur prior to our evening meals
with live music. On Friday, a Jazz Trio will bless us
with their music while we fellowship with one another as
we continue to gather as one body coming from the North
Texas Association, the New Orleans Association, the
Houston Association and the
South Texas Association to join the hosting Brazos
Association as we form the South Central Conference. A
second reception after a day of meetings and workshops
will transition us into our evening celebratory meal of
prime rib and shrimp. The Djambabes drumming group will
start us out on the patio before we move into the
Student Center for a meal, presentations and more
fabulous music.
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Calle Rogers-Witte
Executive Minister
Wider Church Ministries
Keynote Address |
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