Over the next few weeks, you're invited to journey to the Horizon with Rev. Daniel Hawkins as he sits down with the leadership of the new Horizon Texas Conference. This week, we get to learn more about the Director of Communications, Pam Hughes, and the rest of the Horizon Texas Conference communications team Trey West and Dustin Kaps.

Over the next few weeks, you're invited to journey to the Horizon with Rev. Daniel Hawkins as he sits down with the leadership of the new Horizon Texas Conference. This week, we hear from the Director of Diversity and Cultural Engagement, Dr. Major Boglin, and the Associate Director, Rev. Andrew Fiser.

School is starting for our children and youth and our college students are getting ready to head back to campus. We are revisiting an episode from this time last year when Daniel visits with Two of our Wesley Executive Directors Rev. Marcus Jones from UTA and Rev. David McMinn from UT about their college ministries and how churches can best re-accept their college students back into their congregations.

As summer is wrapping up and everyone is getting back to school, our friends Lynne Rhodes, Elizabeth Sin, and London Shannon from Project Transformation tell us about all the exciting things that happened this summer at their various churches and how your church can get more involved next summer with Project Transformation. To learn more, you can visit https://projecttransformation.org/central-texas/

As we continue to prepare for our Back-to-School ministries, we as POD Strangely Warmed thought it would be a good idea to hear from some of our very own students about what they are anticipating for the upcoming school year and how they would like churches to come alongside and help them throughout the school year. Rev. Daniel Hawkins is joined by Nicolas from Crowley FUMC, Bella from Western Hills UMC in Ft. Worth, and Addisen from FUMC Springtown. If you're looking for a way to help the students in your church, sometimes the best thing to do is ask them what they need.

As we get closer to the school year starting our churches are planning ways to encourage and champion our children and youth. Rev. Daniel Hawkins sits down with Rev. Melissa McDuffee, from FUMC Cleburne, who has partnered with Matt Ford, the Principal at an elementary school in Cleburne, to learn how they have come together to better serve the students and teachers throughout the school year.

This week were back on the road at the 2024 South Central Jurisdictional Conference. Rev. Daniel Hawkins gets Rev. Edlen Cowley and Rev. Philip Rhodes reactions about the ratification of the Horizon Texas Conference and how were building something great for the future. Rev. Ramon Smith gives us a recap of his LED Talk he gave Thursday, and Rev. Todd Salzwedel tells us about his experiences from the Northwest Texas Conference and what he's looking forward to for the new unified conference. Also it's a Methodist Conference so we found Rev. Marcus Jones enjoying the LED talks!

We're back in the POD Strangely Warmed studio this week and since Annual Conference many pastors have been on the move to their next appointments. Rev. Daniel Hawkins interrupts Rev. Ramiro Rodriguez while working on his first sermon for his new church and steals Rev. Johnny Brower from unpacking boxes to sit down and visit about what it means to be itinerant, and how to transition successfully to a new church.

Welcome back for Part 2! Last week Rev. Michael Gienger, our Conference teacher from AC24, joined Rev. Daniel Hawkins to dive deeper into what all is happening at Galveston Central Church. This week Daniel finds out he could be an occupational therapist while Michael tells us about the work his wife is doing and how it could relate to the way we communicate with the people in and around our churches.

Another episode from our Central Texas Annual Conference, Rev. Daniel Hawkins caught up with Rev. Michael Gienger, our Conference Teacher, after his presentation to learn more about the good work happening at Galveston Central Church. To see both presentations from Rev. Gienger you can visit ctcumc.org/ac24-meeting-videos Join us next week where Daniel and Michael dive deeper into what all is going into and coming out of Galveston Central Church, and how you can incorporate some of these ideas into your church.