2012 Epiphany Event
Featuring:
Dr. Lovett H. Weems, Jr.
Distinguished Professor of Church Leadership / Director, G. Douglass Lewis Center for Church Leadership
Monday, February 6, 2012
Longview FUMC
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The Woodlands FUMC
Register by January 16, 2012, Cost: $15
This is to let you know that the Church Transformation Survey is now available on line. It is running on the same server that runs the Salary Sheet application, but there is a different logon screen to gain access.
This application is designed to handle multiple information gathering tasks for the Texas Annual Conference, so you will see a “Switchboard” screen after you logon to the system that has buttons to take you to the specific task you want to accomplish.
The church Level logon screen can be found by going to the conference web site and clicking on the “Login Area”. Below the link to EZRA is a new choice titled:
Vital Signs, Church Transformation Survey,
and other local church information
which takes you to the actual web page address of
http://www.
That login is like EZRA, churches use their GCFA number with the generic password. On the first logon they are asked to set their own password. If they make it the same as EZRA, both systems will take the same logon. The logon screen looks like
I wanted to let everyone know that we will be adding short video tutorials on technology use to help anyone that wants to view a recorded screen flow with commentary on how to use some of the technology we have in the Texas Conference. We are still working on how to improve the quality of the screen images, but even with that not yet resolved, if you view the video in full screen mode (click the box on the lower right of the video play area – use your Escape key on the keyboard to return to small screen). Although the full screen mode is somewhat blurry, it is still readable and can be followed.
The video is posted on line and can be viewed by simply clicking the link below. This first video is a short tutorial in how to find the Charge Conference documents in Dove and how to open them and save them back into Dove for future use.
Please click the link below to play the video:
“How to Access Charge Conference Documents in Dove”
http://www.ourchurchvideos.com/77002/txcumc/view_video.php?viewkey=3eee609d05b90c14222f
We will be adding more as we introduce additional technology changes such as how to enter Report Day Data in the new GCFA system named “Ezra”.
Thanks,
Ivan K. Krowl
On May 31, 2011 from 8:00 am till 4:00 pm the Center for Clergy Excellence,
Group Health Benefits has invited its participant’s carriers to join in for a
day of Q & A. It will be held in room 336 AB in the Hilton of Americas Hotel.
Attendance will be:
Boon-Chapman PPO
Script Care, LTD
Humana Dental/Vision
MHNet – Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
The Methodist Hospital
Humana – Medicare Advantage PPO (Senior Program)
Carlson Consulting – Group Health Benefits Consultant
Group Health Benefits - Benefits Administrator
It is time to begin pre-registration for Texas Annual Conference 2011. Register early to indicate your preferred format of the Pre-Conference Journal.
Churches, please get your delegate information into your district office as soon as it is available.
This registration is specifically for clergy, clergy spouses and laity delegates to the Texas Annual Conference. Guests and laity who are not delegates do not need to register.
This registration requires a password. Please allow your district office time to send out the information in the coming weeks for your access to the system. Don’t worry if you haven’t received the information yet. You will receive instructions soon. (Download Registration Information attachment)
If you haven’t received information by the end of February you should then contact your district office so they can be sure your information is updated.
It is important that you register in the proper district. If you are unsure of the district you are in, your church staff will have that information.
If you have questions, please contact your district office: http://www.txcumc.org/districts.
For additional information about this year’s event, lodging and relevant forms, please go to http://www.txcumc.org/tac2011.
Also, the system says you must have a print-out, but this isn’t necessary. There is no need to keep the printout – we have a record of whether you registered.
The deadline for pre-registration will be May 8th at 12:00 noon (central time). The system will automatically shut down at that time and cannot be turned back on.
You may register through the links below by selecting the correct district. This registration is password protected.
Central North District Registration
Central South District Registration
Northwest District Registration
Southeast District Registration
Southwest District Registration
Register as a Guest (for Conference and District staff or specially designated guests only)
Contact event registrar: jervin@txcumc.org
Thanks you guys!
Jan Ervin
Administrative Assistant for the
Assistant to the Bishop
The Texas Annual Conference in May 2010 passed a resolution establishing a task force and to seek input from members throughout the annual conference regarding the issues surrounding the Judicial Council Ruling Number 1150. The Task Force is holding five listening sessions throughout the annual conference, inviting members to provide their own reflections concerning the Annual Conference’s Model for Ministry and the April 2010 ruling.
Issues to be addressed by the Task Force and the Annual Conference in May include (among others):
The Task Force has already had several meetings. The first listening session was held on February 17 at the First UMC in Conroe. There are four more listening sessions scheduled in other parts of the Annual Conference:
March 7 7PM St. Paul’s UMC, Houston Fondren Hall
March 10 7PM Christ UMC, Sugar Land Chapel
March 14 7PM First UMC, Longview Genesis Class Room (3rd Floor)
March 24 7PM Trinity UMC, Beaumont Youth Center
All members and district leaders are invited to attend. We want to hear your own perspectives.
Respectfully,
Donald R. House
Chair
Good Afternoon,
The 2011 Session of the Texas Annual Conference will be held May 29, 2011 through June 1, 2011, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. Our host hotel is the Hilton Americas, but there are many hotels in the downtown Houston area.
We have special rates with the Holiday Inn Express (713-652-9400, ask for the front desk) and Embassy Suites (713-739-9100), both located within walking distance of the George R. Brown Convention Center.
If you plan to attend TAC 2011, and wish to stay at our host hotel, please call the Hilton Hotel Americas to obtain room reservations. The phone number for reservations is 713-739-8000.
Or you can reserve online by following this link: http://www.txcumc.org/tac2011
Thank you in advance for your attendance at this year’s Annual Conference. God’s blessings will abound, and our labors to build Christ’s Kingdom will be strengthened.
Jan Ervin
Administrative Assistant for the Assistant to the Bishop
First Download This Report Day File
There is a “blue box” on Line 216. This is the last line of the report and is the Signature Line. You must enter something in this blue box or it will not consider the data entry step ever completed. In the attached I suggest using “OK” but anything will work.
It reminds you that the data entry person now has an approval step required that they did not have last year.
Also, to allow Vital Signs entry to be done on year 2010 items, the default “Start” and “Stop” dates of the Vital Signs entry area are set to start with October 1, 2010 through 12/31/2011 instead of 1/1/2011 through 12/31/2011. This keeps the last 3 months of the prior year visible so the end of year can be done without having to reset the start and stop dates and reload.
I got a question about that messing up the report day carry over, but it does not cause problems. Both the Transformation survey and Report Day report pull from Vital Signs, but each report knows it’s start and stop date for it’s reporting period and uses that to pull the correct data regardless of what you have displayed in Vital Signs entry. If they want to know what is being transferred to the report, they will need to set the display of Vital Signs to be 1/1/2010 to 12/31/2010 and do the “Reload Data” to see what is actually being transferred to the reports. Right now the default covers 15 months of vital signs and the totals at the bottom are for the full 15 months but that is not what the reports receive, the reports pull the correct calendar year entries that apply to the report. If the report did not know what to pull, we would not be able to go back and display a report from an old year and show correct numbers.
If any of this leads to any questions, please call.
November 5-7, at Forest Glen Christian Camp in Huntsville
Registration deadline – postmarked by October 22nd
Cost= $100
February 25-27, 2011 at Forest Glen Christian Camp in Huntsville
February 25-27, 2011 at Lakeview Methodist Conference Center in Palestine
March 4-6, 2011 at Forest Glen Christian Camp in Huntsville
Registration deadlines:
Postmarked on or before February 7th, cost =$100
Late registration, postmarked Feb. 8 – 21, cost =$150
*Additional information and links to fliers and forms are available at www.txcumc.org/youth
The Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church
5215 Main St., Houston TX 77002-9792 | Phone: 713.521.9383
Bishop Janice Riggle Huie met with laity and pastors from the North District on Saturday at Tennison Memorial UMC in Mt. Pleasant. She met with each group, talking about church vitality and effectiveness in our mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. This was the fifth stop on this tour of all the districts in the Texas Annual Conference.
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