Río Texas Conference
A public prayer wall and the calendar of retreats and gatherings for the deacons of the Río Texas Annual Conference.
riotexas.orderofdeacons.org →Conference chapters
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This site is built to grow. If your conference's order of deacons would like a home here — prayer, calendar, and more — we would be glad to help you start one.
Write to us →Deacons are ordained to a lifetime ministry that connects the community and the congregation. Four charges, held together in one life of ministry.
Word
teaching and proclaiming
To teach and proclaim the gospel, interpreting the world's need to the congregation and the congregation's call to the world.
Service
the margins
To lead the congregation in ministries of outreach, standing at the places where the church's life meets the world's need.
Compassion
the poor
To embody God's mercy toward those the world overlooks, and to form the congregation in the same compassion.
Justice
social holiness
To connect personal piety with social holiness, pressing the congregation toward the justice the gospel requires.
A ministry that connects the two
Every deacon in full connection belongs to an order — a covenant community bound in mutual care and accountability, watching over one another in love. But between annual conferences, that covenant can be hard to see.
This site exists to make the ordinary life of the order visible: the prayers we carry and the days we set apart to gather. It begins with what can be shared publicly, and it grows as the order asks it to.