The Management & Service Spirit Team consists of volunteers who work behind the scenes to to keep things moving on Sundays and throughout the week. * If you have extra time on your hands and would like to volunteer in some capacity, let me know! * We’re updating the Calling Tree, so if you have… Read more MANAGEMENT & SERVICE SPIRIT TEAM
LIVING LENT: PURPOSE There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 Take time in your “living Lent” this week to read all of Ecclesiastes 3. Try reading it first as someone who does not have Easter new life in Christ. Note especially verse 19: “Everything is meaningless.”… Read more CAROLYN’S CORNER
An outcome from the planning retreat this weekend was an individual requesting that I share Celtic Prayers each week in the Communicator. In addition I’m going to ask us to focus as well on concerns of the Metropolitan Wichita area. Carolyn This week we pray for the citizens who live in the City of… Read more CYCLE OF PRAYER
South Central District Assembly Sunday, July 31 Disciples Center at Tawakoni Your district cabinet is hard at work planning this year’s District Assembly featuring speaker Dr. Mark Johnston, Executive Director of the Open & Affirming Ministry program at the GLAD Alliance. Mark Johnston is an ordained Disciples minister with a Ph.D. in Pastoral Psychology. Before… Read more 2016 South Central District Assembly
It is my pleasure to introduce to you Kerry Wilkes who will be with us Sunday, January 31, 2016. She will bring the message in worship and conduct a workshop following worship on letter writing to our legislators. There are some important bills before the State Representatives and Senate. Kerry will bring us key information… Read more CAROLYN’S CORNER
Guest speaker, Dr. Kerry Wilkes, will be with us to bring a message on “Equality Kansas” in worship and conduct a workshop following worship on letter writing to our legislators. “1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ” is the Reading from Our Tradition. Special Music is “Help Us Accept Each Other” ~ John Ness Beck.
The city of Flint, Michigan switched its water source in 2014 as a cost-saving measure. The new source, the Flint River, had high levels of corrosive contaminates, which caused lead pipes to leach. The levels of lead in the tap water became dangerous across the city, and highly toxic in the most severely affected areas.… Read more WEEK OF COMPASSION FOR THE PEOPLE OF FLINT
The Seekers class started a new book written by David Hansen entitled American Indians, the Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice. The class was full for the first session and there is plenty of room for YOU to join this fun, interesting and unusual conversation! The materials are photocopied and we are still… Read more SEEKERS CLASS NEWS
Sunday, January 31 Kerry Wilkes of Kansas Equality will be with us in worship to bring us up to date on the upcoming legislative session. Kansas Equality specifically champions the issues of the LGBTQ community. The 2016 legislative session will call upon us to put our theology into action. Kerry will lead a workshop after… Read more SOCIAL JUSTICE: KANSAS EQUALITY
Our final IAS fundraiser! Help send Nicholas Yocum on the Christian education trip of a lifetime. This fundraiser is in lieu of having a chili cook-off. There will be no cook-off. You’ve already blessed us with your financial generosity to make this event happen. Thank you, thank you, thank you! This trip is an investment… Read more The Alternative Chili Cook-off