Announcements!
Groups
- Junior Events
END OF YEAR ACTIVITY: May 18th – 19th - We are going to have our big finale Jr. Event and it is going to be a SURPRISE!! This will be an overnight event that will top all others! Parents can drop off their kids at the church Friday at 5:00 p.m. and pick them up at the surprise location Saturday at noon. They need their swimsuit and overnight apparel. It will be a BLAST!! Friends are welcome! Parents: to find out more details contact Jason & Brooke Trachsel or Bryan & Courtney Talcott.
- Junior High Activity
Our End of the Year Jr. High activity will be a Barbeque on Saturday, May 12th from 3-6 p.m. at the church. We'll play games and barbeque burgers and hot dogs, hopefully outside weather permitting! There is no cost, we just ask that you bring a friend! Please RSVP by May 4th to Justin or Rebecca @ (913) 706-7845
- Women's Retreat at Doniphan
May 18-20. If you would like to be on the planning team for Women’s Retreat, please contact Wendy Gunn ASAP at 816-415-8002 or wgunn@cerner.com or wgunn@kc.rr.com
Tammy Lindle from world church will be the guest speaker.
- Womens Book Club
The next book club meeting will be at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, May 17th at Hatsie Mallicoat's home, 24417W. 114th St. Our book is the Memory Keeper's daughter by Kim Edwards.
- Vacation Bible School - On a Mission for Jesus
Mark your calendars!!! June 10-14 - VBS (and the week prior for decorating). Blast Off! Sun Force Kids! A fun and exciting out of this world adventure awaits you. As the children sing, create and play they will discover how to have courage as God’s Special Agents..
- Men's Breakfast
Hey guys, let’s get together at 7:00 a.m. on every Friday morning for breakfast at PERKINS.
- Ladies Luncheon
Join us at 1:00 p.m. on May 10 for food and fellowship at the Red Robin Restaurant on W. 153rd St. (across from Home Depot and Target).
- Bible Study Class
This morning Larry Winters will begin teaching a Bible Study class
in the multi purpose room. If you would like to be a part of this class, please bring your Bible to Sunday School with you. Note…please be sure that your name is in any Bible you bring.
- Food Drive for Center of Hope
We are conducting a food drive for Central Avenue Center of Hope through May 27th. Needed items include: soups, spaghetti sauce, spam, chili, dry milk, shampoo, toilet tissue, and individual food items (snacks, cup-a-soup, vienna sausage, stew & pudding). Donated items may be left in the barrel in the church lobby. Checks may be made out to "Central Avenue Center of Hope" and given to Lois Viers.
- Reunion
Reunion at Camp Chihowa will be June 24-29. Registration forms for reunion are in the foyer. Please register soon. It will be here before you know. If you would like a registration from for the Doniphan Reunion, June 17-22, they are available in the office.
- Chattanooga Kids
The World Church has participated in several Designated Giving Projects, including Words for the World, IYF Around the World, and Roofs over Africa. In each instance the giving goal has been met and surpassed. The next Designated Giving Project, Chattanooga Kids, begins today and extends through August 2007 with a goal of $300,000.00. The Chattanooga Urban Ministries Center began as ministry to a trailer park in East Tennessee. They have now purchased an old bank building in a neighborhood reported to be the 5th most dangerous in the state. More than 300 people are served food and ministry at this location each week. Children are being fed and lives are being re-directed. Jimmy Munson says “The kids stay in school now. We used to have no kids on the honor roll. Now, the majority of kids involved with the center are on the honor roll.” The building is in need of repair and renovation to the tune of about $600,000.00. $300,000.00 has already been raised. Let’s help get the rest! Make your donations April 1 – August 31 by indicating “Chattanooga Kids” on the World Mission Tithes side of your offering envelope or by donating on-line at the world church web site cofchrist.org.
- Flooding in Haiti
Apostle Bunda Chibwe shared sad news with the World Conference on Thursday morning. Several days of heavy rains in Haiti had just ended, leaving many areas completely flooded. Our congregation at Cacasse was destroyed by flash flooding and thousands of people lost their homes. Many church members were evacuated to large tents that are severely overcrowded and there is not enough food for everyone.
Paul Davis of the Presiding Bishopric announced that $10,000 had already been sent from the church's disaster relief funds to aid those affected. Haiti Mission Center Financial Officer Michel Rosier will distribute the money sent from the church's Oblation Fund. After there has been time to further assess the situation, additional funds will be made available to meet the needs of the people. Many church leaders from Haiti served as delegates to World Conference They are being assisted as they attempt to contact home to receive specific information about church members and their own families. At this time the best way to help is through prayer and donations to the Oblation Fund. Contributions can be made online at www.CofChrist.org/WorldMinistries/, by using Mission Tithes envelopes, or by mailing a check or money order to Community of Christ World Headquarters, ATTN: Oblation Fund, 1001 W. Walnut, Independence, MO 64050 USA.
- Summer Activities
Registration forms are available in the office or by clicking links above.
- Financial Contributions to the church
Are you looking for a more consistent way to make contributions to the congregation and mission tithes? You may now make these contributions through Automatic Withdrawal. Authorization forms are available in the office or you may download them from the Mission Center web page, midlandsmc.org.
- Help! Help! Help! Supplies Needed for VBS!
We will be decorating for VBS June 4-9. We need old metal trash cans, a refrigerator box, laptops, mylar, large bulb Christmas lights, costumes, clown, hats, wigs, beards, animal costumes, old kitchen utensils, spatulas, kitchen gloves, PVC tubing, dryer venting, anything that could be used as a robot part. And most importantly, volunteers, volunteers, volunteers to help decorate. Also…there will be a robot convention. Make your robot ahead of time and bring it to VBS to be used in decorating the multipurpose room. They will be judged in different catagories. We will need 100+ lids from the boxes copy paper comes in (the size that holds ten reams of paper).
- Looking Ahead
Gail Mengel is planning the first Ecumenical Women's Conference by Church Women United which will be held at our church headquarters. The theme is "Claim a New Vision Together" and the dates are June 19-22, 2008. After the this conference there will be a Community of Christ Women’s event. Jeanne Mann will be assisting in this endeavor and there will be volunteer opportunities to help. If you would like to help in this endeavor, please contact Jeanne at 913-681-3250 or jeannem@ggga.net. Even though it is more than a year away, please get this event on your calendar.
- "We proclaim the peace of Jesus Christ and invite all to fellowship, worship, learn and serve as we journey together, celebrating our diversity and our unity."
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