Appointment Season begins in the Rio Texas Conference

Amanda Banda

Directof of Communications, Rio Texas Conference

Appointment season has begun in the Rio Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church. As pastors and congregations prepare for transitions in the coming year, we invite our conference to pray for clergy, congregations, and their families.

Each year, bishops in The United Methodist Church work with district superintendents and local church leaders through a prayerful and consultative process to discern pastoral appointments that best support the mission and ministry of congregations across the conference.

As pastors and congregations prepare for new seasons of ministry together, we invite you to keep our clergy, churches, and clergy families in prayer during this time of transition.

Pastoral appointment updates will be posted on the Rio Texas Conference website each Thursday at noon. Updates will be added weekly throughout the spring as appointments are announced.

A Prayer for Appointment Season

Itinerancy

Learn more about how the United Methodist appointment system works:
https://www.resourceumc.org/en/content/to-be-united-methodist-what-is-itineracy

The prayer in the image to the right, created by The United Methodist Church, comes from John Wesley’s Covenant Prayer, a historic prayer used in Methodist tradition that reflects our willingness to follow where God calls.

These transitions often bring both excitement and challenge as congregations welcome new pastoral leadership and give thanks for the ministry they have shared with their current pastors.