Mission - Outreach 
The Commission for Mission works in a variety of venues of mission in this synod and includes Campus Ministry, Ecumenical Ministries, Global Missions, Inclusive/Multicultural Ministries, Mission Partners, and Outreach Committees. The Commission co-ordinates the work of these varied committees in an oversight fashion, with quarterly meetings. It includes the chair of each committee as well as the commission members who make up the commission.
Contact Chair: Rev. Jennifer Gold
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Campus Ministry
Ecumenical Ministries
Global Missions
Inclusive/Multicultural Ministries
Outreach
Mission Partners
Inclusive/Multicultural Ministries
Contact Co-Chair: Rev. Dr. Faye Schott
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Co-Chair: Rev. Sylvia De La Garza
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The Inclusive/Multicultural Ministries Committee works to promote a sense of inclusiveness in a synod where we ought not to even have to think about this. The committee works hard in various settings of workshops, special training sessions, and at synod assembly to lift up antiracism, issues of justice and equality, and the opening of doors to the people who are in our synod as brothers and sisters.
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Mission
Our Mission: United in Christ, Diverse in people, Called by the Spirit, the Southwestern Texas Synod is equipping the people of God to be instruments of God's love.
The Synod serves God's people in
most of the south and southwestern Texas from:
Del Rio and the western Hill Country on the West, The Gulf Coast south of Victoria on the East, Georgetown just north of Austin on the North, Brownsville on the South.
The synod is made up of 165 congregations with approximately 67,902 persons.
Ecumenical Ministries
Contact Chair: Rev. William Sappenfield
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The Ecumenical Ministries Committee works in various venues of co-operative ministry with our ecumenical partners in this synod. We attempt especially to do work together with those partners with whom we are in fellowship, as well as promoting strong cooperation with other religious entities and an ecumenical spirit wherever possible.We are in search of a person who might have a special interest in this area to chair and co-ordinate the work of this committee.
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Contact Chair: Suzette Price
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The Campus Ministry Committee co-ordinates the work of all the active campus ministry sites in this synod. We work actively with University of Texas, Texas Lutheran University and Texas State University campuses as well as with part-time sites in Victoria, Corpus Christi, Edinburg, and San Antonio.
Texas Lutheran University
Contact: Rev. Greg Ronning
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Texas State University
Christ Chapel
Contact: Rev. Jaime Bouzard
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University of Texas
Contact: Rev. Paul Collinson-Streng
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Contact Chair: TBD
The Global Missions Committee is the linkage between our synodical mission and the work of global mission, which can be as close as Mexico and La Frontera, or our Companion Synod, Costa Rica. The committee co-ordinates various immersion experiences in the mission fields with which we are closely aligned, Mexico and Costa Rica.
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Contact Chair: TBD
The Outreach Committee keeps the flame of mission burning in this synod. The committee works at identifying new mission areas throughout the synod, helping to raise funds, working with the Mission Directors and synod staff to continue communications with the mission pastors in the synod, and identifying potential congregations for Transformational ministry. This crucial committee is at the heart and soul of what we are about in the church today, and is constantly working at raising up work with Hispanic/Latino people who comprise a vast number of people with whom we should be in mission.
Mission Partners
Contact Chair: TBD
The Mission Partners Committee works to coordinate congregations who have needs and congregations who can share blessings. These needs and blessings may be financial, work oriented, prayer related, or simply getting to know about others. The Mission Partner Committee works with ELCA churchwide to look at new and innovative ways to partner congregations in mission.
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