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- Center for Clergy Excellence
- Advancing Pastoral Leadership (APL)
- Benefits
- Clergy Accountability Ministries
- Clergy Compensation
- Clergy Development and Spiritual Formation
- Clergy Pre-Retirement Seminar
- Clergy Recruitment Ministries
- Clergy Retirement
- Contact - Center for Clergy Excellence
- Dr. Lovett H. Weems, Jr., Fruitful Ministry in Challenging Times
- Emerging Leaders Initiative
- Interim Ministries
- Pastoral Leadership Project
- What is Clergy Excellence?
- Center for Congregational Excellence
- Center for Connectional Resources
- Center for Missional Excellence
Center for Clergy Excellence

If you will be relocating this year, register for the final 2012 ”You Say Goodbye…I Say Hello”
Itinerancy and Relocation Event on Saturday, May 12, 2012, 9 am to 1:30 pm at FUMC Conroe (this event is required for all relocating TAC clergy). For a brochure, go to the link above.
Advancing Pastoral Leadership (APL) Applications Now Available
TAC elders with 30 potential years of remaining service apply by May 15 for fall 2012 program start. For program description and application, visit www.txcumc.org/apl. Questions? Contact
If you have not yet registered for Annual Conference, pre-registration closes at noon on May 17. Registration info at: http://www.txcumc.org/pages/detail/1415. Don’t forget! Registration for child care at TAC 2012 is due by May 7 to avoid a late registration fee. For links to child care information and registration, go to: http://www.txcumc.org/pages/detail/1417
TAC Clergy Women Breakfast, Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 7:00 – 8:30 am, at Annual Conference Gather to affirm and encourage one another through fellowship, music, prayers, breaking bread and sharing stories. The cost is $25.00 and includes a hot buffet breakfast as well as a prayer booklet. Please contact Robyn Bishop, robynbbishop@gmail.com or 281-734-1979 to register.
Clergy Excellence Annual Conference Events – Galveston Convention Center (GCC)
Memorial Service Tues., 6/5 7:00 – 9 pm Main Meeting Hall
Memorial Service Reception Tues., 6/5 9 – 10 pm Ballroom, 2nd Floor
Spotted Owl Gathering Tues., 6/5 8:30 – 10:30 pm San Luis, Pool Deck
GHB Providers Wed., 6/6 8 am – 4 pm Reg. Area, 1st Floor
Retiree Worship Celebration Wed., 6/6 11:00 am – Noon Main Meeting Hall
Retiree Luncheon Wed., 6/6 Noon – 1:30 pm Ballroom C
Meet your Group Health Benefits Providers on Wednesday, June 6 at Annual Conference
Questions or concerns about your Group Health Benefits plans? Representatives will be available from 8 am to 4 pm in the Pre-Function Area (registration area) on the first floor of the GCC:
Boon-Chapman PPO Script Care, LTD
Humana Dental & Vision Humana Medicare Advantage
The Methodist Hospital (TAC Wellness) MHNet – EAP Program
Carlson’s Consulting Group Health Benefits
UnitedHealthcare Senior Supplement & UnitedHealthcare Medicare Rx for Groups (PDP)
Are any of your parishioners considering licensed or ordained ministry?
After meeting with the candidate, please refer him or her to their District Superintendent to register for Candidacy Summit, July 26-28, 2012, at Camp Allen in Navasota, TX. Applications are due by June 1. Click the following link for Candidacy Summit Application. For more info, go to: http://www.txcumc.org/pages/detail/1274.
Update on the Clergy “No Limits Weight Loss Challenge!” January 1 – June 30, 2012
Check out the competition results through April at the link above! For weight lost from Jan. – June, 2012, be sure and send in your incentive form to earn your cash incentive and be counted in the district competition. If you have a success story from the Wellness Program, please let us know your good news! Go to “Share your Story” at:
http://www.mytacbenefits.org/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&Itemid=13
Escape, relax and renew with single clergy from across our jurisdiction!
A 3-day Soderquist Renew Retreat is a cross-conference event for United Methodist single clergy. Retreats will be held at Inn on Lake Granbury in Granbury, Texas, August 21-23, 2012 and at Inn above Onion Creek in Kyle, Texas, December 4-6, 2012. Two retreats are also available in 2013. All expenses are paid except for travel. Info at the link above. Space is limited. Contact Barbara Eoff at beoff@txcumc.org to register.
Please take the time to pray for and connect with your brothers and sisters in Christ!
Comments? Suggestions? Let us hear from you!
Contact Director Rev. Gail Ford Smith gfsmith@txcumc.org
or Associate Director Rev. Taylor Meador Fuerst tfuerst@txcumc.org.
