Diocesan-wide Gathering for MISSIONS DAY 2022
Saturday, May 07, 2022, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Come get spiritually refreshed and ignited to live out God’s call in your life. Saturday, May 7th the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas is holding our annual Mission Day. This is a day for us to come together as an entire diocese to explore God’s call in your life and the mission of the church to be good news in our lives and communities. You will not want to miss this day. This event will take place at Church of the Epiphany in Richardson. Our keynote speaker will be the Rev. Dr. Mark Labberton, renown author and President of Fuller Theological Seminary speaking on “The Mission of The Church in Today’s World.” Other speakers include Bill Hendricks on finding your Spiritual Gifts (Author of The Person Called You and Director of The Giftedness Center), Rev. Calum Lindsay (Alpha USA), and many of our own with homily from Rt. Rev. George Sumner, TED style talks by Dean Rob Price and Canon Carrie Headington, workshops by, Archdeacon Rosemary Trei and Deacon Jennifer Smith, Deacon Katie Gerber, and Ministry in the Spirit led by Bishop Fraser Lawton and Canon Christopher Brown and much more. Let us Come Together!
EDOD MISSIONS DAY 2022
9:30-Registration and Coffee & Breakfast Snacks
10:00 a.m. Morning Prayer and Commissioning of Lay Evangelists and Diocesan Intercessors
Homilist, Rt. Rev. George Sumner
10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. - “The Mission of the Church in Today’s World”
Rev. Dr. Mark Labberton, President of Fuller Theological Seminary
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Presentation of the Diane Stanton Mission Award
With Laura Corley, Executive Director, The Kellermann Foundation
11:45 a.m. LUNCH
12:35 p.m. – 12:55 p.m. EDOD Resources and TED TALKS – Canon Carrie Headington, Dean Rob Price, Deacon Katie Gerber and EDOD Youth
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Workshop 1
* Good News In Action – We will explore how your congregation can get involved in caring for those in need. From soup kitchens to School partnerships and more.
Archdeacon Rosemary Trei and Deacon Jennifer Smith
*Reaching the Unreached: Parish Evangelism, Alpha, Creating Space for Seekers
Rev. Calum Lindsay (Alpha DFW and Highland Park Presbyterian Church), Canon Carrie Headington, Rev. Matthew Frick
*Reaching the Unreached: Parish Evangelism and Spanish Alpha (In Spanish) Fr. Jose Garrigo
*Preaching the Gospel in a Secular Age Rev. Dr. Mark Labberton
*The Person called YOU: Spiritual Gifts, Calling, and Life Mission. Bill Hendricks, Executive Director for Christian Leadership, Hendricks Leadership Center, Dallas Theological Seminary and President, The Giftedness Center
1:50 p.m. -2:35 p.m. WORKSHOP 2 (Same workshops except – For Preaching the Gospel in a Secular age by Rev. Dr. Mark Labberton)
2:45 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. Ministry in the Holy Spirit with Bishop Fraser Lawton and Canon Christopher Brown
3:30 p.m. DISMISSAL
Mark Labberton was named the fifth president of Fuller Seminary in 2013, after four years as Fuller’s Lloyd John Ogilvie Associate Professor of Preaching and director of the Ogilvie Institute of Preaching. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA), he served in pastoral roles for 30 years prior to coming to Fuller, most recently as senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California, for 16 years. He also has served as cofounder of the Christian International Scholarship Foundation (now ScholarLeaders International), chair of John Stott Ministries, senior fellow of International Justice Mission, and in a number of other roles of service. He holds an MDiv from Fuller and a PhD in Theology from Cambridge University.
Labberton is committed to strengthening the intersection of the academy, church, and culture, and brings to his presidency a deep desire to enact justice, love, and grace on both a global and local level. A popular speaker at churches, conferences, educational institutions, and other contexts, he often uses these talks to reflect on what it means to act biblically in challenging, often divisive cultural times. On his podcast Conversing, he further explores a broad range of topics—civility, race, suffering, gender equality, storytelling, and many others—with a diversity of guests.
Books Labberton has written include Called: The Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today, The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus, and The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God’s Call to Justice. Most recently he served as editor for the book Still Evangelical? Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning, a collection of essays on the meaning of evangelicalism in a contentious era.
Serving as president during a time of significant upheaval in theological education, Labberton has worked to help Fuller shape new, fruitful ways of carrying out its mission of “forming global leaders for kingdom vocations.” Through such endeavors as the Fuller Leadership Platform, FULLER studio, innovative forms of online instruction, strengthening traditional degree programs, and a campus move, he is leading Fuller in a process that will design the path ahead for seminary education.
For more information contact Cn. Carrie Headington at or Dn. Katie Gerber at