We pray for Michael B. Curry, our Presiding Bishop; for C. Andrew Doyle, our Diocesan Bishop; for Jeff W. Fisher, our Bishops Suffragan; for Kathryn 'Kai' Ryan, our Bishops Suffragan; and for Hector F. Monterroso, our Bishop Assistant. 

San Jacinto – Gerald Sevick

September 10 – Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Christ the King (Atascocita), Humble – David Scott Nelson.
Good Shepherd, Kingwood – William T. Richter, Jr., Linda Celeste Geldreich.
Good Shepherd, Tomball – Cecil George McGavern III, Karen Loomis Jaworski.
Holy Comforter, Spring – John Robert Soard II, Robert Lynn Lowry.
Birthdays of: Elizabeth R. Dabney (13), Samuel H. Craven (14), David Max Scheider (14), Thomas Allen Wallace (14), Michael B. Russell (15), Felix Olagboye Akinkugbe (16).

September 17 – Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
San Esteban, Cleveland – William D Llana.
St. Aidan's, Cypress – Leslie Scott Carpenter, Robert Edward Gray.
St. Cuthbert's, Houston – Malcolm Arthur Ellis.
St. Dunstan's, Houston – Roman Dario Roldan, Alvaro Pinzon, Beth Anne Nelson.
Birthdays of: Lisa Stolley Burns (17), Elizabeth Zarelli Turner (19), James P. McGehee (22).

September 24 – Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
St. Isidore's, Spring – Sean William Steele, Geoffrey Carrington Gwynne, Kurt Aaron Unangst, Patience Onuigbo,
St. James the Apostle, Conroe – Jerald W. Hyche.
St. Luke's, Livingston – Chester Joseph Makowski.
Birthdays of: Joann L. Saylors (24), Beth Jernigan Fain (26), Elizabeth Ann Brotherton (30).

October 1 – Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
St. Mary's, Cypress – Marquita L. Hutchens.
St. Stephen's, Huntsville – William Blake Rider, Bruce Guy Joseph Chabot, Mary Elizabeth Robbins.
Trinity, The Woodlands – Gerald Sevick, Frank Wayne Samuelson, Joanna Louise Unangst, John R. Vancamp.
Birthdays of: Andrea Caruso Conklin (2), Wayland Newton Coe (5), Judy Harris (5), Patricia E. Vasquez-Juarez (7).

Southeast – James M. Pevehouse

October 8 – Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Christ Church, San Augustine – Benning Wenworth Bundy (Bishop's Warden).
Holy Trinity, Port Neches – Darrett Reese (Senior Warden).
St. John's, Silsbee – John Brent Johnson.
Birthdays of: Kenneth Lea Fields (8), David Bertrand Poteet (10), Seth Mabry Deleery (11), Peter Glyn Thomas (11).

October 15 – Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
St. Mark's, Beaumont – James Melvin Pevehouse, Alan Dean Calcote, Joy Ione Irene Walker Miller, Tracie Gail Middleton.
St. Paul's, Orange – Rebecca Hall Rutledge (Senior Warden).
St. Paul's, Woodville – Jody Johnson (Bishop's Warden).
Birthdays of: Sandra Blanche Michels (17), Stephen M. Smith (18), Benjamin Isaac Long (19), William M. North, Jr. (19), James E. Ely (20).

October 22 – Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
St. Stephen's, Beaumont – James Vincent Liberatore.
St. Stephen's, Liberty – Roy Green, Jr. (Senior Warden).
Trinity, Anahuac – Paul L. Rice (Bishop's Warden).
Trinity, Jasper – Jane Warfield Spencer (Senior Warden).
Birthdays of: Walter Leon Ellis (22), Lucrecia Miranda Littlejohn (22), Heath Daniel Dewrell (27).

Southwest – Travis H. Smith

October 29 – Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost
All Saints', Stafford – James C. Morgan.
Calvary, Richmond – Ralph Baier Morgan, Jeremy Charles Bradley, Nancy Schreiber Wilkes.
Christ Church, Eagle Lake – Margarita Eguia Arroyo.
Christ Church, Matagorda – Jennifer Lynn Klaiber (Bishop's Warden).
Birthdays of: John Bradford St. Romain (29), Charles A. Sumners III (1), Norman Joseph Catir, Jr. (2), James C. McGill (2).

November 5 – All Saints
Good Shepherd Indian, Stafford – Roy Varghese.
Holy Comforter, Angleton – Travis Hunter Smith, Preston Earl Weatherly II.
Holy Cross, Sugar Land – Scott Allan Thompson.
Birthdays of: Mary Elizabeth Wilson (5), Jeffrey Paul Schiffmayer (9).

November 12 – Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
St. Catherine of Sienna, Missouri City – Andrew Duncan Ellison.
St. John's, Palacios – William Thomas Bullard.
St. Mark's, Bay City – John Greenwood Myers.
St. Mark's, Richmond – Frances Alysoun Marks (Senior Warden).
Birthdays of: Durwood R. Bagby (13), Durwood R. Bagby (13), William Joseph Wigmore (14), Mary Emily Green (15), David B. Thames (15), Laurens Allen Hall (16), Robert Terry Flick (17), Jeffery Allen Logan (18), Nicky Don Novak (18), Douglas Wayne Richnow (18).

November 19 – Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
St. Mary's, West Columbia – Paul Benson Wehner.
St. Paul's, Freeport – Christopher Anders Weis.
St. Thomas', Wharton – Michael Kiju Paul.
St. Timothy's, Lake Jackson – Robin K. Reeves-Kautz.
Birthdays of: Melvin Alden Bridge (19), Jon A. Sonnen (19), Susan Dolan-Henderson (21), Linda Sue Taylor (23), Bruce Gregory Whitmore (23), Stephen H. Smith (25).

West Harris – James M. L. Grace

November 26 – Last Sunday after Pentecost – Christ the King
Ascension, Houston – Mark McDonald.
Christ the King (Alief), Houston – Arnold Adighibe (Bishop's Warden).
Emmanuel, Houston – Patrick Lance Ousley.
Birthdays of: John Kirkland Graham (26), Nancy Penelope DeForest (29), Ted William Smith (30), Stephanie Linscott (2), Judith Reagan Liro (2).

December 3 – First Sunday of Advent
Epiphany, Houston – Patrick McKenzie Hall.
Holy Apostles, Katy – Alexander R. Large, Desmond J. P. Goonesekera.
Holy Spirit, Houston – John Del Mixon (Senior Warden), John R. Pitts, Sr.
Birthdays of: Hugh Oliver Bell, Jr. (3), Janne Alro Osborne (3), Samuel L. Boyd (4), John William DeForest (5), Nicholas R. D. Dyke (5), Paul E. Taft, Jr. (5), Nicholas Edward Earl (6), Bryant Coffin Bechtold (7), John R. Bentley, Jr. (9).

December 10 – Second Sunday of Advent
Hope, Houston – Lyn Zill Briggs.
San Mateo, Bellaire – Janssen Jose Gutierrez Silva.
San Romero, Houston – Uriel Lopez, Mary J. Reddick.
Birthdays of: Charles David Tirrell (13), Lloyd Brian Porter (16), Albert R. Rodriguez (16), Carl Steen Shannon, Jr. (16), Merry Rideout Wilburn (16).

December 17 – Third Sunday of Advent
Santa Maria Virgen, Houston – Uriel Osnaya-Jimenez.
St. Andrew's, Houston – James McKay Lykes Grace, Jeffrey John Bohanski, Clint Edward Brown.
St. Christopher's, Houston – Richard T. Houser III, Donna Marie Brackett-Knight.
Birthdays of: John J. Sheffield (17), Stephen W. Kinney (19), Anne Knight Hoey (20), Robert F. Bliss (22), Alex G. Montes-Vela (22), Kathryn M. Ryan (22), Arthur Ashley Callaham (23).

December 24 – Christmas Eve
St. Francis', Houston – Stuart Alan Bates, David W. Price, Robert David Wismer.
St. John the Divine, Houston – Robert Leigh Spruill, Reagan Winter Cocke, Neal Scott McGowan, Louise B. Samuelson.
St. Martin's, Houston – Russell Jones Levenson, Jr., John R. Bentley, Jr., Nicholas R. D. Dyke, Richard H. Elwood, Alexander DeWitt Graham, III, Jane Louise Plackett-Ferguson, Robert W. Arning, Sharron Leslie Cox, Gillian B. Keyworth, Lisa R. Neilson, John Deepak Sundara, Martin James Bastian.
Birthdays of: Trawin Elston Malone (24), Elizabeth G. Holden (25), Russell Harold Oechsel, Jr. (25), Mary Elizabeth Robbins (26), Suzanne Freeman Tubbs (26),
James Alfred Hazel (27), Carol Ross Petty (27), Gerald David Fikes (28), Thomas Rand Morris (28), Quintin Gregory Morrow (28), Cynthia Steblein Ruiz-Riquer (30).

December 31 – First Sunday after Christmas
St. Paul's, Katy – Mark David Wilkinson.
St. Philip the Evangelist, Houston – Agook K. Kuol.
St. Stephen's, Houston – Lisa Wynne Hunt, Ashley Elisabeth Bathe Dellagiacoma.
St. Thomas', Houston – David O'Neal Browder, Geoffrey Stewart Simpson.
Birthdays of: Madeline C. Shelton Hawley (31), Warren Giles Miedke (31), John R. Pitts, Sr. (1), Danielle E. Tumminio Hansen (2), Ashley Michele Cook (3), Jesse George Smith (3), Jesse George Smith (3), David Coy Dearman (4), Rayford B. High, Jr. (4), John Merrill Wade (4), Robert Leslie Gribble (6).