TRES RIOS AREA ASSEMBLY 2013
April 2, 2013
The annual Tres Rios Area Christian Church
Area Assembly will be April 19-20 at First Christian Church of El Paso,
Texas. Registration begins at
5:00 pm, Friday, April 19, at the
church,
901 Arizona Ave.,
El Paso. We will eat dinner together at
6:00 pm in Carroll Hall (the
kitchen/meeting area at the west end of the church building) and then, at
7:30 pm, we will worship together in
the sanctuary. Following worship, there
will be time for face-to-face conversation and catching up over coffee and
dessert. Registration fee is $15 each,
which includes dinner on Friday.
On Saturday, April 20, we will reconvene
in Carroll Hall at 8;30 am for a continental breakfast. Our Tres Rios Area business meeting will
begin at
9:00 am and will
include electing 2013-14
TRA
directors and officers; a report from
Charlotte
Hoppe,
TRA
Minister; a financial report; and a conversation about the Tri-Area Covenant
currently being developed among Tres Rios Area, High Plains Area and Central
Area of the
Christian
Church of the Southwest Region.
A keynote address will be presented by
Sami
DiPasquale, Executive
Director of
Ciudad
Nueva, a Christian outreach
program for at-risk children in El Paso, and a director on the national board
of Christian Community Development Association
(CCDA).
Sami
will speak about effective outreach and community building in low income
neighborhoods in the U.S. For more
information about CCDA, visit their website at www.ccda.org.
The Area Assembly adjourns at
noon on Saturday, with a special
invitation to stay another evening and enjoy coffee, beans, and rice, a
fundraiser for beans and rice for the food insecure in El Paso and northern
Mexico. Special guest performer for Coffee,
Beans, and Rice on Saturday night is
Jimmy
Stevens,
a founding member of the nationally known and locally loved band,
Springfire. Join us for a bottomless cup
of coffee (or tea), dessert, and a gifted musician’s performance.
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