For me, the end of one year and the beginning of a new one is an interesting moment in time. It is a moment where I wonder how the...

Bracken birthed Schertz. Schertz birthed Universal City. Even though these three United Methodist Churches share some DNA and are in...

Transformational Communities Network Universal City UMC Since incorporating some of the practices and tools learned through...

January 11, 2020 Kinney County, Texas is a border county with 3,800 residents. Brackettville, the county seat town has 1,740 residents....

January 10, 2020 Of the 83 Texas counties composing the bounds of the Rio Texas Conference, 56 to 62 counties [67% to 75%] are considered...

Bethel UMC is in west San Antonio and is over 100 years old. A team from the church just completed the core training for Transformational...

I was telling a friend that my ‘retirement’ was boring me out of my mind. But then along came TCOP. Actually, my journey from boredom to...

Portland First United Methodist Church in Portland, TX has been on a journey to “connect and reconnect with the neighborhood around the...

By Amy Moritz How have you seen gifts manifest in your community and church during the pandemic and social distancing? It has been so...

by Bob Clark How do we continue to build shalom when our world is falling apart? As a person who is actively involved in building and...

By Dionisio G. Salazar We are all living in a new reality. The global pandemic has disrupted life as we know it. It has brought suffering...