The Central Texas Annual Conference will hold its annual meeting June 9-11, 2024 at First United Methodist Church Round Rock. Lay and clergy members of the annual conference must register for the event in order to actively participate in the meeting.

Pray For Conference

Our church is honored to host the 2024 Annual Conference for the Central Texas Annual Conference. We ask you to pray for the pastors, churches, and delegates as they prepare for this important time as they prepare to gather, worship, and vote on future legislation for the church for the upcoming year. 

Conference Teacher

Rev. Michael Gienger

Rev. Michael Gienger is an ordained elder in the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. He received his undergraduate degree in Religion, concentrating in Christian Ethics, from Baylor University, and his Master of Divinity from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Michael has been serving as co-pastor of Central United Methodist Church in Galveston, Texas since 2014. Central is a hybrid church plant/revitalization that is making space for hopeful skeptics and the spiritually homeless through a generous orthodoxy and focus on justice ministries.

Michael was appointed as the (re)planting pastor of Central UMC in 2014. Since that time, Central has transformed from a dying congregation to a thriving community. In addition to re-planting the church itself, Michael has been able to establish smaller "new faith communities" within the larger Central structure, including the Couch Surfers - a weekly surfing group. Michael can help congregations think through new ways of engaging with people outside of their community through nontraditional, creative, contextual expressions of "church."

Conference Preacher

Rev. Mitchell Boone

Rev. Mitchell Boone has served as the senior pastor of First United Methodist Church Dallas since July 2022. Prior to his arrival at First Dallas, he served White Rock United Methodist Church in East Dallas and Lone Oak United Methodist Church (Lone Oak, Texas).

Mitchell graduated with a BA in Religion from Hendrix College in 2007 and received his MDiv from the Iliff School of Theology in 2012. He completed a two-year fellowship with Hendrix College and the Lilly Foundation focused on Clergy Civil Engagement, a certificate in Spiritual Entrepreneurship with the Columbia Business School and CLAL, and was awarded the Harry Denman Evangelism Award in 2020.

In 2012, Mitchell married Elizabeth Van Oort. Elizabeth works at Citysquare as a Senior Director overseeing the AmericCorps program and organizational education and training. The Boones have two amazing boys, Cashel and Declan, and love living in East Dallas. Mitchell is passionate about Dallas sports teams, learning how to smoke the perfect brisket, hacking away on area golf courses and finding good deals on vinyl records.