Whova Registration and Hotel Registration for delegates and clergy opens April 15
Meeting Room and Catering Request
Plans for the 2025 Rio Texas Annual Conference at the Corpus Christi American Bank Center June 12 - 14 (Wednesday through Saturday) are well underway. We look forward to this as a time of renewal and fellowship as we gather to worship God, tend to Conference business, and support one another in ministry. If you are no longer the contact and your organization is interested in reserving a room, please forward this email to the appropriate contact.
Ministry Meeting Room Request
Ministry Groups requesting a meeting room, breakfast, luncheon, or dinner are required to submit a room request form. Please click on the MEETING REQUEST AND CATERING FORM link at the bottom of the page to complete the form. Submitting the form will help prevent double booking and ensure that your room is set up as requested. We have a limited number of rooms available. All requests will be filled out on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please keep in mind that there are more meetings occurring this year during the Annual Conference than in previous years so rooms will be reserved quickly.
Catering Request
For those of you requiring catering, please click on the CATERING MENU link below for the American Bank Center’s Oakview Catering Menu. You will need to contact the Catering Sales Manager, Mengdi Liu with the room I have assigned, your menu selections and arrange payment. The menu selection deadline will be May 5, 2025, and the final guest count deadline will be by noon on May 30, 2025. The order minimum will be 25 for all meals. After the 7-business day deadline, there will be an additional 25% rush production fee added on for guest count changes. As a city owned building, there is unfortunately no outside food or beverage to be brought into the building at any time. You can email Mengdi.Liu@oakviewgroup.com or call O: 361-826-4739 C: 361-929-8005.
Please keep in mind that because of the cost of resetting a room, we may have to use a slightly altered setup however, we will try to keep it as close to your needs as possible.
The deadline for scheduling a room is April 18th.
If you have any questions, contact George Ballard at (210) 408-4529 or email at georgeb@riotexas.org or Abel Vega at (210) 408-4514 or email at avega@riotexas.org .
Greetings,
This is an invitation to specific Ministry Groups seeking display space at this year’s 2025 Annual Conference. This year, our space for the Ministry Fair will be very limited due to the Ministry Fair is not being held in Exhibit Hall A, like it has in the past. Therefore, only our Conference embedded ministries and direct ministry relationship ministries will be extended an invitation to have a Ministry Booth this year. Space is limited so once all the spaces are reserved there will be no other space that can be provided.
Our plans for our gathering at Annual Conference at the American Bank Center (ABC) in Corpus Christi, Wednesday through Saturday, June 11th- 14th, 2025, are well under way. We are all hoping this will be a time of renewal for each of us as we gather to take care of the Conference business and support each other in ministry.
This year at the Annual Conference we are again offering Ministry Groups both in-person display space, as well as limited Virtual booth space through the Whova app.
Ministry Groups wishing to have a display space at the Annual Conference must pre-register for that space. Please go to the link below to see guideline information and application to submit in order to reserve a space.
For Ministry Groups interested in reserving a Virtual Booth space go to the link shown below for additional information and complete the form to request a virtual booth.
We are looking forward to seeing you at Annual Conference, and if we can help you in any way, please feel free to contact George Ballard at the Conference office at (210) 408-4529 or you may email him at georgeb@riotexas.org.