Sometime around mid-August 2005, the 750 or so vestry and bishop's committee members of the 92 churches of the diocese will open their mailboxes to find the first-ever version of a booklet titled Requests for Funding for the Diocesan Reaching Out Budget.

Beginning in 2006, the entire diocesan budget of about $3.4 million will be separated into two parts: the Reaching Out Budget and the Operating Budget.
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From this link you can experience the breadth and depth of the Episcopal Church in South Texas.  Travel to Camp Capers, Mustang Island and TMI, The Episcopal High School of West Texas.  Learn more about the joys of giving remembering that stewardship is everything we do after we say. "We believe."  Review the actions of Council 2005 and the opportunities to be found with the Episcopal Church Foundation in West Texas.  Find our churches and schools across the diocese, follow parishioners on overseas missions, and much, much more.

:: Change is hard work.
Change is an inevitable part of life; intentional change, or that change won through hard work and perseverance, is something entirely different.  There are no quick fixes.

Dreaming of a better life, a better outcome, will not make it so.  Nor will half-hearted measures.  If you want to create a better reality you will have to work to make it happen.

-J. Keith Hughey, "In Praise of Those Who Choose the Hard Path", found in Monday Morning Musings, July 4, 2005.