TI Leads Dynamic GET FIT Dialogue At Southwest Texas UMC Annual Conference in Corpus

    The Southwest Texas UMC held its Annual Conference in Corpus Christi this past week. The Texas Impact display and materials were a vital part of the Conference Board of Church & Society - Peace with Justice display.  Our focus this year was on Citizenship & Advocacy Projects for Congregations which was also the focus of our resolution. We also offered large baskets of peanuts in the shell to promote "healthy" church snacks.  It keeps folks coming back and standing by the display eating, talking and shelling their peanuts...into a large recycle bag.The GET FIT Program of Texas Impact was one of the resources promoted. Bee Moorhead, Executive Director of Texas Impact, was our Dialogue Session presenter and did an excellent job of enabling folks to "dialogue" about how congregations and individual members can be involved addressing  the systemic issues of injustices from the local scene.For the second year, our conference held Dialogue Sessions for onewhole afternoon on conference concerns like: Human Sexuality, Stem Cell Research, Ministry with Poor & Marginalized Persons, Environment, Religion & Race and about 10 other topics and/or ministries sponsored by the Conference Council on Ministries.Hope all has gone well for your annual gatherings as well.Grace & Peace, Wanda Holcombe, Peace with Justice Coordinator, Southwest Texas Conference UMC, E-mail:  wholcomb@umcswtx.org