Julie Lane will be holding additional website training sessions for spirit team members on Sunday, February 16th and Sunday, February 23rd directly after church. Please contact Julie if you would like to participate. Please call her cell: 617-1296 or email her: hookedonjaneausten@yahoo.com.
‘Beneath the Blindfold’ reminds us of the immorality and illegality of torture, even when disguised as ‘enhanced interrogation.’ This essential documentary shakes our complacency and determines us to insist on actual, effective abolition of torture in our time. — Juan E. Méndez, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment… Read more Behind the Blindfold – Tuesday, Feb. 11th, 6:00 p.m.
Julie Lane will be holding additional website training sessions for spirit team members on Sunday, February 16th and Sunday, February 23rd directly after church. Please contact Julie if you would like to participate. Please call her cell: 617-1296 or email her: hookedonjaneausten@yahoo.com.
The Team met last Wednesday (January 8) to continue discussions of the candidates being considered for the position of Senior Minister. We voted unanimously on a top candidate with whom to continue conversations. In contacting her, we learned she and her family will be in the Wichita area this week (January 14-20), and the Search… Read more MINISTERIAL SEARCH TEAM UPDATE
Thanks to Carmen Bell we have a list of current issues before the state and federal legislatures. If you enter www.legislature.org, or type Kansas legislature into your search engine you will find information that will help you learn about issues of interest to you and ways to contact your legislator. Two of the issues we… Read more LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
Thanks to all who came to Sunday’s conversation on Nonviolence. I feel we had a great conversation and I thoroughly enjoy the opportunity for the intergenerational discussions that are able to be held within the safety of our church family. (Especially when we don’t see eye to eye.) Please remember to think of the two hands… Read more NONVIOLENCE DISCUSSION / ACTION OPPORTUNITY
2014 is upon us and we are actively moving forward together. The new year brings new leadership and I am looking forward to this opportunity to share not only my facilitation and leadership skills, but also my vision for a better future for all. I thought I would take this time to share a few things… Read more HELLO FRIENDS, FAMILY, FELLOW CONGREGANTS.
The Ministerial Search Team met on Wednesday, January 8 to continue evaluating candidates we’ve interviewed for the Senior Minister position. Before we can conduct a second interview with any of the candidates, we need to have a solid financial picture for 2014 so we can discuss compensation packages (salary, housing, etc.). Toward that end, we… Read more MINISTERIAL SEARCH TEAM UPDATE
What is Circles? It’s a transformational approach that partners volunteers and community leaders wtih families wanting to make the journey out of poverty! Each Circle initiative consists of families working to get out of poverty and several middle and upper income “Allies” who befriend them and lend support. Circles seeks to expand social capital by… Read more WICHITA CIRCLES NETWORK – VOLUNTEER TRAINING TO BECOME AN “ALLY”
What is Circles? It’s a transformational approach that partners volunteers and community leaders wtih families wanting to make the journey out of poverty! Each Circle initiative consists of families working to get out of poverty and several middle and upper income “Allies” who befriend them and lend support. Circles seeks to expand social capital by… Read more WICHITA CIRCLES NETWORK – VOLUNTEER TRAINING TO BECOME AN “ALLY”