The Mosaic

Stephen Reeves, Guest Preacher, October 16

Stephen Reeves, Executive Director of Fellowship Southwest be our Guest Preacher on Sunday, October 16. 

About Fellowship Southwest

• Mission: Fellowship Southwest is a nontraditional network of Christians loving our neighbors with compassion and justice while crossing borders and pushing beyond boundaries.
• Vision: We are a fellowship where you can be yourself, your mission can be multiplied, and together we join God’s work in the world.
• Values: Fellowship Southwest commits to being faithful, thoughtful, courageous, and kind.

About Stephen Reeves

Stephen Reeves serves as the executive director of Fellowship Southwest following Founder Marv Knox’s retirement in 2021. Established in 2017, Fellowship Southwest is a regional ecumenical network of churches and Christians working for compassion and justice in the southwest US. Fellowship Southwest’s work includes the creation and support of a network of ministries serving the needs of migrants on both sides of the southern border.  

Reeves also serves as director of advocacy for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) and is the co-author of The Mission of Advocacy: A toolkit for congregations published by Nurturing Faith in August 2020. Previously, he was director of public policy for the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission in Austin and remains a national leader in the effort to reform predatory lending practices including payday and auto title lending. He also served previously as staff attorney for the Washington-based Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC).

Reeves currently serves as co-chair of the Center for Responsible Lending’s Faith & Credit Roundtable and as a member of the CBF/Baptist Women in Ministry Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force. In addition, he serves on the boards of BJC and Passport Camps, as well as the strategic advisory board of Good Faith Media and the Baptist World Alliance Commission on Racial, Gender and Economic Justice.

He is a native of Austin, Texas, a member of the State Bar of Texas, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and the Texas Tech University School of Law.  He and his wife Deborah, who is a CBF-endorsed chaplain, have three children, Kellyn, Garrett, and Landry. They live in Dripping Springs, Texas.

About October 16

Following worship on October 16, we will gather in Vickrey Hall at 12:15pm for a Potluck dinner and Q&A with Stephen Reeves. Bring a dish and/or an appetite as we come and learn more about how Fellowship Southwest is crossing borders and pushing beyond boundaries with the help of concerned churches like ours.