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Voting Member Book – on this page you will find these items:

  • Complete Voting Member Book
  • Assembly Documents Section
  • Proposed 2023 Compensation Guidelines
  • Nominations
  • Resolutions and Memorials

ELCA Churchwide Reports

  • ELCA Presiding Bishop’s Letter – English or Spanish
  • ELCA Federal Credit Union 2022

Gulf Coast Synod Reports

  • Bishop Michael Rinehart
  • Bishop’s Associate for Leadership – Rev. Tracey Breashears Schultz
  • Bishop’s Associate for Mission – Brother Chris Markert
  • 2023 Proposed Compensation Guidelines
  • Synod Statistician Report
  • Region 4 Archives Report 2022

AIO Reports

  • 1517 Media 10 Things
  • AMMPARO 2022
  • Central African Republic – 2022
  • GSB Fundraising Assembly Report 2022
  • Lutheran Foundation of the Southwest
  • Lutheran Foundation of the Southwest – Lizbeth C. Johnson – Letter to Assembly, 2022
  • Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services
  • LSTC and Wartburg Seminary Joint report
  • Lutherans Restoring Creation 2022
  • Lutherhill
  • Mosaic – 2022 Synod Report
  • Peru Synod Assemby report 2022
  • Portico Synod Assembly 2022 Report
  • Texas Lutheran University Report 2022
  • Upbring Impact 2022 Report

Synod Council Minutes
Congregation Anniversaries 2022
Rostered Leader Anniversaries
Roster Changes 2022

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Chris is passionate about networking and identifying new ways to support individuals and congregations as they grow a deeper, bolder, more consequential faith. Chris maintains the LEAD website, supports LEAD's signature coaching, and collaborates on the 10 Minute Toolbox.

 

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Peggy Hahn serves as the Executive Director for LEAD, aligning passionate leaders, resources, and practices to grow Christian leaders who grow faith communities in our world. Peggy is a frequent speaker and author who is never without a pile of books to read and seeks coaches and mentors for herself in an ongoing quest to learn and grow. Peggy is committed to listening to pastors and leaders of all ages for insight into the ways they are growing in their own faith and what LEAD can do to support them in their development as leaders.

 

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Lizbeth began her work in the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod in the fall of 2014 as the gift planner with Lutheran Foundation of the Southwest.

Lizbeth received her undergraduate degree at Texas State, and master degree and doctorate from the University of Houston. She resides in Houston with her husband Gary and has one daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren living in San Antonio. As deployed staff living in Magnolia, she participates in worship at a different synod church each Sunday.

The ministry is partnered with the ELCA Foundation to help congregation establish new revenue streams through endowments that provide a quarterly distribution for ministry. The gift planner helps to build the endowment with the generosity of congregation members who leave legacy gifts for ministry in their wills or estate planning. The gift planner facilitates tax-advantaged ways to bless family and the church.

  • Resources from Lutheran Foundation of the Southwest
  • Gift Planning Bulletin Insert
  • Ways to Give During Challenging Times LFSW Webinar 4.21.2020 - Watch | Download

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Aimee has had the opportunity to serve the Lutheran Church in various volunteer positions including council president, Sunday school teacher and VBS director, and as a LYO sponsor. She has worked in several congregations in administrative roles.

Aimee has lived in Texas for most of her life. She and her husband Daryl have two adult children; outside the office Aimee enjoys reading, sewing and spending time with family and friends.

 

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A native Houstonian, Chris graduated from Concordia University in Austin and went to seminary in Berkeley. His first call was in Philadelphia. In 2003, he moved to New Orleans to serve as Mission Redeveloper for House of Prayer in Harvey. Following Hurricane Katrina, Chris relocated to Houston where he was called as Mission Developer and founding pastor of Celebration in Cypress, where he served for over 7 years. Chris is a member of the Order of Lutheran Franciscans. He enjoys traveling and joining friends for trivia at local venues.

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Prior to serving on Synod Staff, Tracey Breashears Schultz served Zion Lutheran Church in Houston, Texas. Prior to that, she served at MacArthur Park Lutheran Church in San Antonio.  A graduate of The University of Arkansas, Tracey received her Masters of Divinity from Wartburg Theological Seminary, and her Doctor of Ministry from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
 
Before her journey toward ordained ministry, Tracey was a Spanish teacher and a trainer for a medical software company.

 

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Serving as bishop of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America since 2007 is an honor, a challenge, and a joy. It has given me the opportunity to work with many gifted pastors and committed people of faith. We’re creating communities that make disciples who serve the world in Jesus’ name.

For information updated weekly (sometimes daily) on news, events, ideas, books, schedules, and so on, visit my blog.

Evangelism is one of my passions, and our synod’s highest priority. Evangelism is making fully devoted followers of Christ, who taught love of God and neighbor as the greatest commandments. Every congregation is a mission, and every pastor is a missionary.

Together we plant new congregations, send missionaries, prepare rostered leaders, support companion synods, camps, campus ministries, and more. Our vision is to be a network of growing, Christ-centered, outwardly-focused congregations passing the faith to the next generation.

 

Biographical Information

Born: August 2, 1961, Columbus, Ohio

Wife: Susan

Children: John and Yuliana

Parents: Warren and Patricia Rinehart

Undergraduate studies: Bachelor of Music in organ performance from Valparaiso University, a Lutheran university in northern Indiana, 1983

Seminary: Masters of Divinity from Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio, 1988.

 

Calls:

  • St. Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport, Iowa (1988-1994)
  • Christ Lutheran Church, Charlotte, North Carolina (1994-1997)
  • Grace Lutheran Church, Conroe, Texas (1997-2007)
  • Bishop, Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod (2007-present)

 

Currently Serving:

  • Texas Lutheran University Corporation Board
  • Houston Coalition for Immigration Reform
  • Board of the Houston Coalition for Mutual Respect

 

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