St. Luke’s United Methodist Church’s Adult Ministries presents former H-E-B president and now senior advisor Scott McClelland in the inaugural speaker series “Faith in Work” on Monday, Oct. 3, where he will discuss about how his own faith and career have intersected throughout his life. The speaker series is an offshoot of “Working Faith,” a new program that will launch Oct. 16, focusing on how to erase the Sunday-Monday divide when it comes to faith. The idea is for people to begin to see their careers as a way to lives their Christian faith every day, with the goal of engaging and impacting men and women throughout the Houston area, not just those who already call St. Luke’s home.

Community members are also invited to attend St Luke’s starting Oct. 16 for the “Faith at Work” sermon series by Dr. Tom Pace, the church’s Senior Pastor. In 2023, St. Luke’s will launch Working Faith Bible study cohorts that will help individuals take a deeper dive into the intersection of their own faith and work.

McClelland is the former President of H-E-B Food/Drug Stores and now serves as a Senior Advisor to the company. H-E-B is a $36 billion grocery retailer that operates stores in Texas and Mexico. In his capacity as president, Scott oversaw the operations of all H-E-B banners across the state of Texas. Today, he serves as an advisor overseeing the company’s entry into the Dallas-Fort Worth market.

McClelland led H-E-B’s expansion into Houston. The company has been able to grow its market share from 11% to a market leading 42% share. Known as the “H-E-B Guy”, he was the local face for H-E-B starring in TV commercials along with JJ Watt, Jose Altuve and other local sports notables.

McClelland received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and graduated from Harvard’s Advanced Management Program.

The event is on Monday, Oct. 3 from 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 3471 Westheimer Rd., Houston, TX 77027, in the branches Building near the main entrance on the south campus (Edloe Street side). The event is free. There is ample parking in the lot or in the parking garage.

For more info, visit www.stlukesmethodist.org.

St. Luke’s is a United Methodist church established in 1945, meeting at Lamar High School before its first church buildings were built at 3471 Westheimer. Always an outreach focused church, in 2008, St. Luke’s merged with Gethsemane Methodist at 6856 Bellaire, in the heart of the Gulfton area, where Gethsemane church had been located since the late 1950s. Since then, St. Luke’s has concentrated much of its outreach efforts on the needs of its Gulfton community. The Gulfton/Sharpstown area is the most richly diverse neighborhood in the most diverse city in the U.S. Its population has shifted over time from workers who migrated to Houston from the Northeast and Midwest regions during the ‘60s and ‘70s oil boom, to a largely immigrant and refugee neighborhood that became an area of concentrated poverty after the oil bust of the ‘80s. St. Luke’s has well-established relationships with the partner non-profit organizations that will locate in the new Community Center, organizations that have been at work in the area for years. Co-locating their operations will amplify and elevate the work of each of these entities and allow them to better respond to the needs of the community. St. Luke’s owns the land where the Community Center will be built.