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The Chapter Needs YOU!
This Chapter cannot exist without the leadership of our members. We want to thank all of our past and current officers for all of their hard work and dedicated time to our Houston Metro Chapter for maintaining the networking community that has been so crucial to our ministries for all of us since 2012.
To keep this local Chapter alive, we cannot go it alone and we need YOU! Please consider serving as our Officer of Communications for the Houston Metro Chapter for the 2026-2027 year.
August Chapter Meeting
Thursday, August 20, 2026
8:30am - 1:15pm
Join us for our program
With speakers
Frank and Elaine
Sommerville
Topic:
"Tax & Legal Update"
Location:
Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church
11612 Memorial Drive, Houston, Texas 77024
In this 3 hour training, Frank and Elaine will discuss recent tax and legal developments that are relevant to church administrators. In one session, the administrator will hear the CPA perspective and the legal perspective and see the Sommerville's debate on the relative merits of each discipline.
Frank Sommerville retired after 32 years at the law firm of Weycer, Kaplan, Pulaski & Zuber, P.C. He works part-time at the Law Office of Frank Sommerville, finishing projects for existing clients. He received his bachelor's degree in business from Texas Wesleyan University. He received his master's degree in professional accounting with an emphasis on taxation from the University of Texas at Arlington. His law degree is from the University of Houston Law Center.
Elaine L. Sommerville is licensed as a certified public accountant by the State of Texas. She has worked in public accounting since 1985. Her practice has and continues to be centered primarily on the tax compliance aspects of nonprofit organizations and churches. Elaine devotes her time to handling various IRS issues for individuals and for exempt organizations of various types. She actively consults on many IRS compliance issues for churches and other nonprofit organizations and prepares information returns of all types for tax-exempt organizations. Elaine is a frequent contributor to Church Law and Tax publications and has authored Church Compensation: From Strategic Plan to Compliance (2018 Christianity Today.)
Your registration includes a sponsored light breakfast and lunch for a reduced price
Chapter Member registration is $50.
Guests are always welcome to attend, and registration is $60.
First time guest is free
You can earn .3 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) for attending this meeting.