Youth Group for 3rd-12th Graders
All 3rd-5th grades and youth in 6th-12th grades are invited to join each Sunday evening from 5:00 - 7:00 pm.
All 3rd-5th grades and youth in 6th-12th grades are invited to join each Sunday evening from 5:00 - 7:00 pm.
Sermons mostly go in one direction, from pulpit to pew. Preachers talk and people listen. But preaching can go in both directions, and once did in the early church. Together, we will think about how preachers prepare sermons and work on one that Dr. Graves will preach on Sun. Sept. 23. Led Read More...
Studying the Acts of the Apostles, led by Joe Walker. Light reading and conversation. Order textbook in The Well ($10). Room 303. Beginning Sept. 5, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
These are all moments that help remind me why encouraging parents and families to bring children into worship is so important. Young, wiggly, energized worshippers are central to our church, to our congregation and most importantly to living God’s love.
Vacation begins with the word vacate. We begin by wrapping up at work or home and heading out of town. Set up a tent, take a flight, or get on a boat. Take leave. Get out.
FaithPub, led by Mike Graves with guest speakers each gathering. Group for men of all ages. Participant can enjoy a beverage, appetizer or light meal, and connect with other men looking for sacred conversations around stuff that matters. 7:00 p.m. at Bier Station. Thurs., Sept. 20: Rev. Corey Meyer, Director of Read More...
Celebrate the beginning of a new year of spiritual growth opportunities for children, students and adults.
Santa gave him his first guitar. We got him lessons. Then he wanted an electric guitar too. But after a few years he and his guitar teacher chose to fire each other. He sold both guitars. But as a freshman in high school, he picked up a friend's guitar and began to Read More...
Sun., Aug. 19 Noon-3:00 p.m. $8 RSVP to April.
Join us as we launch this new casual, family friendly, worship format that honors our traditional worship space while reaching people with a timely message for today.
Tyler Heston joined the staff as Minister of Youth in August 2018, fresh out of seminary and excited for his first call in ordained ministry. Tyler is new to Kansas City and is thrilled to call it a "home" alongside Memphis, Tennessee, where he grew up, and Fort Worth, Texas, where he Read More...
In the movie, Cool Hand Luke, there is a classic scene culminating with Paul Newman’s timeless line, “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” Pardon the grammar, and never mind the context; but I think the same could be said about our church’s annual Community Camp. (Shortly after coming on staff, Read More...
Though summer now feels 2/3 over, I still look forward to hours of uninterrupted reading while on study leave at a monastery in Colorado and some vacation time on the beach. While the bulk of study leave is devoted to mapping out sermons for the coming months, I also try to read Read More...