Texas Impact Joins Lawsuit Challenging Restrictive Voting Legislation
Read https://texasimpact.org/2021/09/sb1-lawsuit/Why We’re Suing
Courts & Ports Program
Courts & Ports is a 2-day immersion experience designed to build understanding of the many challenges facing migrants and public servants at the Texas-Mexico border.
Find out more: https://texasimpact.org/courts-ports/
Rio Texas MFSA will have our next virtual meeting on Thursday, August 12, 2021.
Our guest is Bishop Robert Schnase, who currently serves as bishop of the Río Texas Annual Conference. He was assigned to Río Texas in September 2016 after serving twelve years as the bishop of the Missouri Annual Conference. Prior to his election as bishop in 2004, Schnase served for 15 years as senior pastor of First United Methodist Church, McAllen, Texas.
We have invited Bishop Schnase to be with us on Thursday, August 12th from 7:00 to 8:00 on Zoom to give us his perspective on the state of the United Methodist Church, locally and in the world.
As you join this zoom call, we ask each caller to MUTE themselves, unless the caller is part of the program.
If you have questions for Bishop Schnase, you may type them on the “chat” link.
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We will have our next virtual meeting on
Thursday, November 12, 2020 7pm.
Our guest speaker is Cindy Andrade Johnson, a deaconess with the Rio Texas Conference. She has worked tirelessly and made personal contact with the asylum seekers on the Rio Grande border. Even in the middle of this election period she has been present for the people who are in the most need. The migrant camp in Mexico is causing harm to our migrant siblings because of inhumane US policies.
Please join us as we discuss what we can do even if we cannot be present, and how we can support this issue.
Follow and support Cindy on her Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/cindy.johnson.94695 We’ll also spend some time catching up with each other!
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We will have a virtual chapter meeting via Zoom on September 10 from 7 to 8 pm CDT. We want to use this time to catch up with our members and find out what our congregations are doing on social justice issues during the pandemic.
In addition, we will discuss efforts to Get Out the Vote for the November General Elections.
Topic: MFSA Meeting
Time: Sep 10, 2020 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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Thanks to Kenneth and Deana Henry for setting this call up!
General Election: November 3
Last Day to Register: October 5
Early Voting Begins: October 13
Early Voting Ends: October 30
Texas Voter Information https://www.votetexas.gov/
League of Women Voters https://my.lwv.org/texas/voting-elections
Vote Forward https://votefwd.org/
Rev. Neal Christie will host the workshop, “Shaping Beloved Community: From Dignity, Recognition and Inclusivity to Advocacy and Equity” at Saint John’s UMC on Saturday, February 29th, 9:00am – 3:30pm. The event is cosponsored by the Rio Texas MFSA (Methodist Federation for Social Action) and the Saint John’s Risk-Taking Mission & Service Committee. Cost for the workshop is $10. A light lunch will be provided.
This workshop will examine the concepts of diversity, inclusivity, equity, cultural humility, and intersectionality; how both external and internalized racism and ethnocentrism create and perpetuate racist systems. We’ll explore what it means to live in a race-dominant culture and how white privilege perpetuates that culture; what does a race-equitable culture look like? We will look at specific public policies in the U.S. and how they perpetuate exclusion, marginalization, and oppression.
Join us as we learn more about ourselves as persons created in the image of God, and to affirm Christ’s grace in our church and society.
Rev. Christie, who serves as Assistant General Secretary for Education and Leadership Formation on the UMC General Board of Church and Society, directs the agency’s educational opportunities, including world-wide trainings, workshops, seminars, and internships. He also coordinates curriculum related to the UM Social Principles. Rev. Christie has authored a number of publications and produced several educational videos on social justice for the church. He is an elder in the Greater New Jersey Conference of the United Methodist Church. Neal has been devoted to the ministry with Church and Society for 20 years.
Register at https://2020anti-racism_workshop.eventbrite.com. If you have questions, please contact Anne Mund at ennadnum@hotmail.com. To pay by check, please follow the instructions at the bottom of event flyer: Anti-racism_Flyer2020
Join us for the next Red Bench on February 25 at Triumphant Love Lutheran Church (9508 Great Hills Trail, Austin, TX 78759) at 6:30pm on the topic: Who Counts & Who Matters?
If you plant to attend, please be sure to RSVP. 
REGISTER FOR CONNECTION2020Even as The UMC wrestles with its future, RMN’s mission remains unchanged. We are steadfast in our commitment to LGBTQ justice, not only where The UMC currently exists, but across the expanse of any future expressions of Methodism or denominations birthed out of the Wesleyan movement. Given that commitment, we invite you to join us in Nashville this February to bless one another’s liberative work and to accomplish the following:
Trailblazing the Liberation Methodist Church
Purpose: •Radically reimagine the ways we relate to one another and the world.
Goal: •Mobilize the Liberation Methodist Church where: the marginalized are centered, power is equitably distributed, and we are free to act in solidarity with movements for justice.
Friday, March 6th at 4pm and ends Sunday, March 8th at 5pm.
United Methodist Church of Preston Hollow 6315 Walnut Hill Lane
Dallas, TX 75230
[near Love Field Airport] https://um-forward.org/
Join us in MFSA’s Annual BOPA event! March 7!
BOPA (Batteries, Oil, Paint, Antifreeze) Recycling in the parking lot of Crestview United Methodist Church, 1300 Morrow St, Austin, TX on Saturday March 7, starting at 8 am. We’ll close at 10:30 am or when our trailers are full, whichever comes first. Bring Batteries, Oil, Paint and Antifreeze (the last three in closed containers). We can accept only these items! No aerosols! The items will be taken to the city’s hazardous waste recycling depot. Just drive up, give your zip code (requested by the city) and volunteers will unload your vehicle.
Bring your stuff, or contact Rowland Curry at rcurry@austin.rr.com to volunteer to help!
March 1, 2020
2:00 pm Registration; 2:30 pm Grand Step-Off
Camp Mabry
2200 W. 35th St.
ID Required for all adults
New This Year:
Tiny Tails Petting Z00
Austin Ukelele Society
Rio Texas Methodist Federation for Social Action 