When are your services?
Our worship service is at 10:15 AM on Sunday Mornings. Throughout the year, we schedule special services. Please check the website for information.
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Where are your services held?
Pine Valley is located on 21st Street North in Wichita. We are half way between Oliver and Woodlawn. More detailed information can be found on our map page.

Pine Valley holds its Sunday morning worship in the Great Hall. Our church building was designed with flexibility in mind; everything in The Great Hall can be moved around, or even out. People in worship sit facing each other; it’s nice to see the faces of half of the congregation during worship. The Great Hall is used for worship, fellowship, and congregational meetings, as well as for special meals, church parties, our annual fund raising garage sale and even rentals.

We believe it’s not the building or “sanctuary” that is particularly sacred, but rather, it is the gathering of two or more people to worship God that makes a place holy.
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How long are your services?
About one hour and fifteen minutes.
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What should I wear?
Feel free to wear what is comfortable. Worship doesn’t require Sunday best clothing, only a worshipful attitude.
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What are your services like?
Pine Valley’s services are informal. Our services are generally structured into four parts: Gathering Together, Prayer, Sharing the Word, Responding to the Word. You’ll find worship to be uplifting, renewing, spiritual, inclusive and even fun.

You’ll enjoy the fellowship of members and visitors before and after the service. Fellowship happens in the church lobby and the Great Hall. Grab a cup of coffee or tea, and even feel free to bring it into worship if you want.
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How will I be expected to participate during worship?
We know most visitors prefer to be welcomed to a church and not spotlighted or singled out. So, don’t worry, we’ll try not to do that. Our worship service is often interactive including spoken prayers, or perhaps dialogue during the sermon, but any such participation is purely voluntary. We receive an offering and celebrate open communion each week. Again, your participation is completely up to you.

We would like to have you sign our registry, but that’s not required either. Just come, enjoy worship and celebrate God.
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What about my kids?
We have a staffed nursery beginning at 10 AM.

Children’s moment is offered during the service. Grade school children are welcome to remain in worship.
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What about Religious Education?
We have Sunday School classes at 9 AM for ages K through adult. Sunday school is usually suspended during the summer months.

Are you part of a denomination?
Pine Valley is part of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination which was founded in the early 1800s by Barton W. Stone, Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell. More information can be found at the Disciples' web site.
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What is your congregation’s mission and vision?
At Pine Valley, we periodically review the status of our mission in today’s world. Situations and needs change and we try to respond to those changes by revising the focus of our ministries. In the past, we have focused on missions such as peace and justice, environment, children, immigrants, discrimination and lifestyles. We tend to focus our mission work through service towards local needs rather than just sending money abroad.

Specifically, we run the only Birthday Box program in the state of Kansas. In this program, we care for 100 elementary students at two schools in Oaklawn, KS, a relatively poor suburb of Wichita. Our service gives students supplies and gifts to celebrate their birthday, something they may not be able to afford otherwise. We provide a cake mix, frosting and candles. After all, what’s a birthday without birthday cake? We also include games or toys and books to add a little fun well past the birthday party. We often include necessities such as shampoo, toothbrushes, deodorant, new socks and underwear and other items because these are always in need. Our Birthday Box program is funded, in a large part, by a Reconciliation grant from the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Kansas.

Pine Valley presently supports a Mission to Malawi through our friends Kholiwe Mkandawire, her son Sinte, and her sister, Gertrude Mkandawire Mhango. Kholiwe and Gertrude journeyed with us in 2004 and 2005, as Kholiwe escaped from Malawi during political struggles. Today, both are back home in Malawi. Kholiwe continues her work as a veterinary surgeon while Gertrude serves as a member of Parliament.

While in Wichita, they found a supportive community in Wichita and at Pine Valley. They learned about Trees for Life and are using information to start their own program of planting trees. “Life with Dignity,” includes providing food and education for pre-school children and orphans, empowerment of women and many other approaches to help all "children" of Malawi.