When
Friday February 20, 2015 at 10:00 AM CST-to-
Saturday February 21, 2015 at 4:00 PM CST
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Hotels
Comfort Inn & Suites
(15 minutes from church – closest to airport)
800 W Expy 83
McAllen, TX 78501
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To reserve a room, call: 956-213-0333 and use the following group name and code:
Group Name: UMC In Mission Together-Partnership Conference
Group Code: UMC
Room rates are $89 per night if booked by January 28, 2015.
Hampton Inn
(5 minutes from church)
300 West Nolana Loop
Pharr, Texas 78577
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Reserve a room online or call 956-961-4716 and use the following group name and code:
Group Name: UMC In Mission Together-Partnership Conference
Group Code: UMC
Group rates are $99.00 per night if booked by January 28th, 2015.
Both hotels can arrange shuttle service to and from the airport. This MUST be done at least 72 hours in advance.
Contact - Project Manager
Julie FrickeIn Mission Together
(920) 403-0447
imtpartnership@gmail.com
Contact - Event Logistics
Susan HellumsBorder Area Mission Coordinator
First United Methodist Church - McAllen
(956) 686-3784
shellums@mcfirst.com
In Mission Together
Best Practices in Missional Partnership
February 20 & 21, 2015
Sponsored by:
It's a game changer! Thousands of clergy and laity across the United Methodist Church are using 50/50 to transform their outreach ministries into disciple-making movements with long lasting impact in their local neighborhoods and around the world. Join the movement!
Rev. Raul Garcia de Ochoa
Raul received a Bachelor’s in Theology from John Wesley Seminary in Monterrey, Mexico and a degree in Communications Science from the Valle del Bravo University in Reynosa, Mexico. He continued to receive a Master’s in Divinity and Doctorate in Ministries from the Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. He has been the Pastor of several churches in the Eastern Conference of the Methodist Church of Mexico. He served as Bishop of the Eastern Conference of the Methodist Church of Mexico from 2006 – 2014. Currently, Raul is serving as the Pastor of El Buen Pastor Periferico Methodist Church in Reynosa, Mexico.He is married to Martha Delia Palacios and has one daughter, one son and two grandchildren.
Rev. Javier Leyva
Javier’s ministry began at La Mesa Mission where he served as a lay person for 9 years, while working full time for Lockheed Martin in Harlingen as a Quality Specialist. In 1996, he was pleased to answer the call into a second career of full- time ordained ministry. He served several locations with the Rio Grande Conference of the UMC. He recently served at El Divino Redentor UMC, in McAllen. In July of 2014, he was appointed as Consultant of Hispanic Ministries for the Rio Texas Conference and two weeks later was re-appointed as the Director of Immigration Ministries of South Texas. That appointment came to an end and currently he is serving in New Braunsfels, Texas as the Consultant for Hispanic Ministries in New Braunsfels, Texas to a new church start, Casa Hermosa.
Javier was born in Laredo, Texas and has been married for 42 years to Lizz Leyva. They are blessed with 3 sons, 1 daughter and 5 grandchildren.
Rev. Patrick Friday
Patrick is the Director of In Mission Together (IMT) for Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church. IMT is a global partnership network which equips conferences, districts, churches and individuals for long term partnerships with long term impact. He leads a team of partnership coordinators that facilitate missional engagement within the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. They provide training in best practices for mobilization, multiplication and movement strategies. He developed the 50/50 Partnership Covenant for long-term, asset-based, development which is based on five core values: church planting, spiritual formation, community development, preventing dependency through self-sufficiency and communication through social networking.
Patrick is passionate about lay mobilization, Wesleyan class meetings and bi-vocational ministry. He has over twenty years of experience in pastoral leadership, missionary service, church planting and partnership development. He lived in the Baltic States and Russia for eight of those years as a congregational developer and leadership trainer. Prior to responding to the call to ministry, he was a public policy consultant and writer/producer for CNN International. Patrick received his Masters of Divinity degree from Candler School of Theology and is an ordained elder of the North Alabama Conference. He and his wife, Hannah, have twin boys, Clint and Sam.
Mr. David Phipps
David Phipps is a retired School Counselor living near Dayton, Ohio. He became involved in Missions shortly after graduation from Bethel College in Indiana. He has been on dozens of mission trips around the world, serving as team leader for several He has served as interim Missions Director at Ginghamsburg Church, where he has attended since 1990. His understanding of missions took a leap forward through Community Health Evangelism (CHE) training. Since that time, he has joined the In Mission Together team, as a consultant, practitioner,and fan. In addition David is currently on New Path Board at Ginghamsburg UMC, works on "Neighborhood Transformation" in Trotwood, OH, where Ginghamsburg's most recent church launch is located and is scheduled to "scout" an area of South Sudan to initiate the launch of a faith community using CHE as the entrance methodology.
Rev. Dr. Randy Russ
Good intentions often lead to inadvertant hurts, or worse, in mission fields. Randy will explore "Helping without Hurting" based on both his personal experience globally, working with coffee farmers in Rwanda, and locally, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and his work with the Chalmer's Center for Economic Development at Convenant College. Discover how a path forward can be found not by providing resources to the poor and disenfranchised, but by walking with them, humbly, in partnership.
Agenda
Friday, February 20, 2015
10:00 a.m. Registration Opens
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Welcome & Introductions
10:45 – 11:15 a.m. Immersion Experience: Online Bible Study
11:15 – 12:00 p.m. Partnership Journey: A Paradigm Shift
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Methodism in MEXICO Today: Roadmap to Growth and Transparency for the Future
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Healthy Missional Engagement: Long-Term Impact
3:00 – 3:15 p.m Break
3:15 – 4:15 p.m Implementation Panel: Moving from Needs-Based Dependency to
Asset-Based Sustainability
4:15 – 5:15 p.m. Using Social Media for Partnership Communication
5:15 – 6:00 p.m. Next Steps: In Mission Together Core Values
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Evening Devotion
Saturday, February 21, 2015
9:00 a.m. Registration Opens
9:30 - 9:45 a.m. Welcome & Introductions
9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Session 1: When Helping Hurts: 50/50 Mission Partnerships for Long- Term Impact
10:45 – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 -11:45 a.m. Interactive Worship & Communion
11:45 - 12:30 p.m. Lunch
12:30 – 1:30 a.m. Session 2: Glocal Partnerships for Community Transformation
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Session 3: Mobilization, Multiplication, Movement: The Wesleyan Way
2:30-3:30 p.m. Session 4: Implementation: 50/50 in Your Church (Receiving
& Sending)
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Q & A
Registration Fees
Members of IMMAR or El Valle District: Full Conference $30/One Day Only $20
Non-members of IMMAR & El Valle District: Full Conference $75/One Day $50
Suggested Reading
When Helping Hurts is a study of poverty alleviation and ministry to those in need. Emphasizing the poverty of both heart and society, it definces poverty as more than a simply a lack of financial or material resources and that it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve the problem of poverty.
While this book exposes past and current development efforts that churches have engaged in which unintentionally undermine the people they're trying to help, its central point is to provide proven strategies that challenge Christians to help the poor empower themselves.
Amazon.com
The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience is a guide to the theory of the Wesley class meeting, an essential element of truly Wesleyan spirituality. This book aids in the development of a deeper discipleship. The class meeting is made workable without losing its essential dynmic as a gospel-based accountable community. Author Kevin Watson has resurrected the class meeting and given it new meaning, showing its relevance for the church today and how it may be a perfect means for church renewal. Amazon.com