Great Plains Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church "Special Edition of the GP Connect" for Thursday, 24 July 2014

Great Plains Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church "Special Edition of the GP Connect" for Thursday, 24 July 2014
SPECIAL EDITION of GPconnect – July 24, 2014
Big, Hairy, Audacious Education Partnership rallies next week
To help you promote next week’s education rallies, we have produced a short, low-budget video to use on Sunday (if you can still fit it in). View and download it at vimeo.com/GreatPlainsUMC/KansasEducation.
The short video features Bishop Scott Jones making a case for partnering with your local school. The video is specifically targeted at Kansas. Nebraska-specific materials will be coming soon.
If you can’t make an actual rally, please know that you can participate on July 31, at 7 p.m., via webcast. The webcast will be available at GreatPlainsUMC.org/livestream. We will have a test stream available from 2:30-3 p.m. on Thursday, July 31, to check equipment. If you plan to a have a viewing group at your church, you will want to be sure your local internet connection can handle the bandwidth.
The rallies in Kansas each have Facebook event pages to make it easy to invite friends and share the information. The rallies in Nebraska will have event pages soon.
•Garden City First UMC, July 29
•Iola Wesley UMC, July 30
•Topeka First UMC, July 31
If you have questions you would like to submit to presenters of the webcast, send them to info@greatplainsumc.org. If you have questions regarding the webcast, contact Kathryn Witte at kwitte@greatplainsumc.org or 402-499-1009.
Bulletin inserts and other resources are available at GreatPlainsUMC.org/education.

The rallies in Kansas are located in Garden City, Iola, and Topeka. Congregations near the Wichita area are encouraged to bring a team to attend a live streaming event on July 31st at First UMC in Wichita. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by the live streaming presentation at 7 p.m., and then small group discussion and refreshments. The event will conclude around 8:30 p.m.
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Want to submit a letter to the editor? Email Kathryn Witte at kwitte@greatplainsumc.org
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Episcopal Office:
9440 E Boston, Suite 160
Wichita, KS 67207 United States
(316)686-0600 
Topeka Office:
4201 SW 15th Street
PO Box 4187
Topeka, KS 66604 United States (785)272-9111 
Wichita Office:
9440 E Boston, Suite 110
Wichita, KS 67207 United States (316)684-0266 
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