October 1, 2025

The Diocesan Nominating Committee Seeks Clergy and Lay Nominees for 2026 Election

Elected Offices to be Filled at the 122nd Council

Nominations open October 1 through November 3, 2025

Greetings Diocese of West Texas,

In Kathleen A. Cahalan’s book, The Stories We Live, she writes that it is prepositions, the smallest words of our vocabulary, that carry the richest meaning in the relationship between our callings and God’s purposes. She writes that we were created not with or for one vocation, but with the capacity for multiple vocations, priest, mother, father, daughter, son, teacher, banker, plumber, Lector, Senior Warden, and so on. The pattern of the prepositions goes like this: I am called, by God, to follow, as I am, from grief, for service, in suffering, through others, within God.

As we enter this season of nominations for elected offices in the Diocese of West Texas, we hope you and your congregations will prayerfully discern where God is calling you. What are you being called away from, so that you can be called to? Do you feel insecure in your abilities and gifts, or are you ready to accept that God is calling you as you are? Who in your congregation is being called for service through our siblings in Christ this season?

With these good and hard questions in mind, the Nominating Committee invites you to put your name forward and encourage others to nominate themselves for the various open offices to be filled at our Diocesan Council in Corpus Christi this February. Nominees do not have to be present at Council to be elected.

One important gift and honor of the work of the Nominating Committee is striving to ensure that the diversity of our diocese is represented within the nomination forms. Therefore, we encourage nominees of all backgrounds, ages (18yrs+), and first-time nominees to prayerfully consider putting their names forward.

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Offices to be Filled

Standing Committee‍
One clergy and one lay person are to be elected for a three-year term and one additional lay person for a one-year term. Click here to learn more about the Standing Committee

Executive Board
Two clergy and four lay persons are to be elected for a three-year term. Click here to learn more about the Executive Board.

Episcopal Church Corporation of West Texas Trustees
One clergy and one lay person to be elected for a three-year term.

Sewanee: The University of the South Trustees
One lay person to be elected to a three-year term.

TMI Episcopal Board of Governors
One person, either clergy or lay, and communicants of the diocese, shall be elected for a three-year term and follow term limits as described in the TMI Bylaws.

Deputies and Alternate Deputies to General Convention
Four clergy and four lay persons, to be elected as Deputies, and four clergy and four lay persons to be elected as Alternate Deputies. Click here to learn more about General Convention.

All nominees must be confirmed communicants in good standing.

Detailed descriptions of each office can be found here.

Steps for Nominations

Step 1. Clergy and lay persons are invited to submit applications for positions to be filled. Each nominee will complete their own form. The positions to be filled and descriptions for each committee or board may be found

Step 2. Completed nomination forms are due to the Diocesan Office no later than November 3, 2025.

Click here to access and complete the nomination form.
If you have any questions or need assistance with the form, please reach out to Leigh Saunders at Leigh.Saunders@dwtx.org.
The form must be received by November 3, 2025.

Step 3. The Nominating Committee will meet to review the nomination forms. The slate of nominees will be published in the Council Booklet and released during the Pre-Council meetings.

Step 4. Elections held at the 122nd Diocesan Council February 26-28, 2026

Thank you for your prayerful consideration in sharing the leadership of our diocese.

Faithfully submitted,

The Rev. Reagan Gonzalez
Nominating Committee Co-Chair

Mrs. Betty Mosty
Nominating Committee Co-Chair

Elected Offices to be Filled at Council 2026

Elected Offices Nomination Form for Council 2026

Diocesan Constitution and Canons