The season of Advent invites us to reimagine what life means as God comes to make a home with us. Click here to learn more about the Advent sermon series, featured music during advent, and to sign up for advent devotions by email.
I had been to my Granny’s little house in the country (Frost, Texas to be exact) hundreds of times but almost every time, I rode in the back seat of my parents’ sedan. Now I was in my own car, driving home from college and it was my assignment to stop and Read More...
Twenty five years ago I experienced the most unusual holiday of my life. My son was due on December 26 but arrived on December 17. I suppose it was the first time in my life that I was not in church on Christmas Eve. And this year, all of us will experience Read More...
Watch this conversation between AltCap President Ruben Alonso III and members of Country Club Christian Church, designed to educate and explore ways the church can be involved in the critical work of building a more just and equitable society.
Late on the first Sunday night of February, our city erupted with joy after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, and people filled the streets with celebration. My boyfriend and I had spent the evening at some friends’ on the other side of Midtown; driving home down 39th street from State Line Read More...
Metro Mission is gathering new or gently used blankets and tarps for sharing with our mission partners who serve the homeless in the metro area. Twin or full size blankets and tarps approximately 5 x 7' are most useful. Donations may be dropped off at church Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m- 3:30 p.m. at the Read More...
Friday, December 18 We’ll celebrate Christmas together on Friday night, December 18th, 6:00-8:30 p.m., with Ice Skating at the crown center and a gift exchange. Details TBA.
This week we have been bombarded with numbers. Numbers of absentee ballots, of electoral college votes, of new covid cases, percentage of positive test rates. We are swimming in a sea of numbers and statistics and trying to make meaning of it all. Sometimes the numbers are overwhelming and sometimes they are Read More...
“In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a pocket handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.” - Frederick Buechner I’m grateful to my colleague, Rev. Joe Walker, who had the idea this year that we should really pause to honor the saints. It got me to thinking about who has been Read More...
Country Club Christian Church’s Scout Troop 1084 has seen many different challenges in its 97-year history. Started in February 1923, the young men and leaders of the Troop have survived economic ups and downs, wars, floods, a lot of technical changes, and now the Coronavirus Pandemic. The lessons learned in are not Read More...
I met Father Ed Hayes 25 years ago when he was directing a retreat center in rural Kansas. Ed had this grandfatherly way of bringing people together from many different spiritual perspectives. He was equally at home at the head of the long oak dinner table and at the chapel’s communion table where he Read More...
It occurs to me that some of you reading this do not have a personal memory of September 11, 2001, and the events known as 9/11. You may not have been born yet or were too young to have memories of that fateful day. Suffice to say that the attacks on our soil were horrific and heartbreaking.
Country Club Christian Church's own Sharman Wilson is the guest speaker at the November Faith & Grief Virtual Support Gathering, for anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one. Sharman's reflection is called “Choosing Hope and a Future.”
This year, we will be collecting monetary donations for pumpkin pies for Micah Ministry's annual Thanksgiving dinner. Pies will be purchased and packaged to be distributed as part of a full meal the week of Thanksgiving. To give online, click HERE and choose Micah Ministries.
By Spring 1919, the flu pandemic had claimed 2,300 souls from Kansas City’s population of 250,000, leaving us one of the hardest hit cities in America. In November of that same year, a missionary sent to our city by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) began meeting in homes with those Disciples Read More...
