The Program will include:

1:00 - 1:30 Registration
1:30 - 3:00 Presentation Bill Huebsch, "Becoming a Truly Great Parish"
3:00 - 3:20 Break
3:20 - 4:45 Presentation Part 2
5:00 - 5:30 Evening Prayer, presiding Msgr. Don Fischer
5:30 - 6:30 President's Reception -Clergy, Exhibitors, Speakers, Sponsors
6:30 - 8:00 President's Dinner -Clergy, Exhibitors, Speakers, Sponsors

Speaker

Bill Huebsch will be the major presenter at the 2008 Ministry Conference Clergy Day.

Bill Huebsch holds a BA in religious studies, and a Masters in Theological Studies from the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago. He served as a diocesan administrator in Minnesota for many years, principally in the Diocese of New Ulm where he served with Bishop Ray Lucker. He later served as DRE in a suburban Minneapolis parish. He is now senior advisor on lifelong faith formation to Twenty-Third Publications and an adjunct faculty member at Loyola University New Orleans: Institute for Pastoral Studies, and the University of Dallas: School of Ministry. He is the past president of Twenty-Third Publications and has held management roles in other Catholic publishing houses since 1995. His most recent book, Dreams and Visions: Pastoral Planning for Lifelong Faith Formation is available from Twenty-Third Publications and Harcourt Religion Publishers.

Msgr. Don Fischer will be presiding over evening prayer at the 2008 Ministry Conference Clergy Day.

Msgr. Don Fischer was ordained to the priesthood May 13, 1967 at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Richardson by the Most Reverend Thomas K. Gorman. Clergy assignments followed--2 years at St. Thomas Aquinas and 4 years at St. Monica before he was appointed Chaplain for the University of Dallas for 13 years. Msgr. Don became pastor of St. Bernard of Clairvaux in May of 1986 and in June of 1995 was assigned to his present position at St. Joseph Parish in Richardson, Texas. Along with his parochial assignment, he served as Diocesan Vocation Director from 1973-1980, AIDS ARMS Executive Board Member from 1991-1995, presently serves as Chairman of the Sub-Commission of Sacred Places of the Diocesan Liturgical Commission, a position he has held for 30 years, presently a Board Member of Breukelein Institute in New York, presently serves on the University of Dallas Board of Trustees, and he has had a radio program on WRR for 20 years.