October 3, 2014
Dear Resurrection Family,
What an exciting week for the Kansas City Royals and our entire city! I typed most of this note while watching the Royals win the first game of their playoff series with the Angels. Awesome! This weekend, please wear your Royals gear, or at least blue, to worship! If you are going to the game Sunday night, join us Saturday night or Sunday morning – we'll grab a picture at each campus during worship and post the service with the most blue on Facebook wishing the Royals the best from our church.
This weekend in my sermon I'll take you to southern Turkey where I retraced Paul's first missionary journey this last summer. You'll see ruins few Christians have ever seen; ruins of a city where Paul preached four times and stopped on all three of his missionary journeys, a city where he was run out of town by the city leaders. It was to the church here, and three other churches nearby, that Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians. We'll consider Paul's message and his perseverance, and how these speak a powerful word to our lives today. Don't miss worship this weekend!
I want to thank all of you who have participated in the neighborhood food drive. I've seen lots of sacks of food being dropped off at the church this week. I went door to door to some of my neighbors last week inviting them to help with the drive. It was fun walking, praying, and visiting with my neighbors as I invited them to make a difference in the lives of people here in Kansas City – and my front seat is full of canned goods they gave to help. I love this work we do each year together.
I wanted to mention that we have a handful of job openings at the church including two coordinating assistants, a facilities maintenance technician, and several other positions. If you or someone you know may be interested in serving on our staff, please visit our employment openings webpage at www.cor.org/employment.
Here's a few things you may not have noticed from our e-news this week: Did you know we have both men's and coed dodgeball leagues? For more information contact Pete Sawyer at psawyer1946@gmail.com. Next Monday night we'll go before the City Council of Leawood for what we hope will be final plan approval for our building plans. Once we're approved, the documents will be released for bid by our contractor. Did you know we have a team from Resurrection heading to Honduras this weekend for a medical and dental trip? Please pause to pray for them as they provide medical and dental care and hygiene education to people who have little access to medical care. There are a lot of opportunities to serve others and to grow in your faith in this week's congregational enews. You can read this week's e-news from our Leawood Campus here.
For those of you K-State and KU grads, I'd like to invite you to join our bishop and his wife for the annual Cat-Hawk challenge – a night of barbecue and fun, raising money for United Methodist campus ministries providing ministry to students at KU and K-State. LaVon and I make an annual gift as parents of a daughter who has a degree from K-State and is working on a second at KU. The Challenge is on Saturday, October 18 from 5 to 7 at Valley View UMC at 95th and Antioch. For more information, to make reservations or to pledge online visit http://cathawkchallenge.net.
The last time the Royals were in the playoffs I had just graduated from college. It's going to be a great weekend. Don't forget to wear your Royals blue to worship!
Adam
What an exciting week for the Kansas City Royals and our entire city! I typed most of this note while watching the Royals win the first game of their playoff series with the Angels. Awesome! This weekend, please wear your Royals gear, or at least blue, to worship! If you are going to the game Sunday night, join us Saturday night or Sunday morning – we'll grab a picture at each campus during worship and post the service with the most blue on Facebook wishing the Royals the best from our church.
This weekend in my sermon I'll take you to southern Turkey where I retraced Paul's first missionary journey this last summer. You'll see ruins few Christians have ever seen; ruins of a city where Paul preached four times and stopped on all three of his missionary journeys, a city where he was run out of town by the city leaders. It was to the church here, and three other churches nearby, that Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians. We'll consider Paul's message and his perseverance, and how these speak a powerful word to our lives today. Don't miss worship this weekend!
I want to thank all of you who have participated in the neighborhood food drive. I've seen lots of sacks of food being dropped off at the church this week. I went door to door to some of my neighbors last week inviting them to help with the drive. It was fun walking, praying, and visiting with my neighbors as I invited them to make a difference in the lives of people here in Kansas City – and my front seat is full of canned goods they gave to help. I love this work we do each year together.
I wanted to mention that we have a handful of job openings at the church including two coordinating assistants, a facilities maintenance technician, and several other positions. If you or someone you know may be interested in serving on our staff, please visit our employment openings webpage at www.cor.org/employment.
Here's a few things you may not have noticed from our e-news this week: Did you know we have both men's and coed dodgeball leagues? For more information contact Pete Sawyer at psawyer1946@gmail.com. Next Monday night we'll go before the City Council of Leawood for what we hope will be final plan approval for our building plans. Once we're approved, the documents will be released for bid by our contractor. Did you know we have a team from Resurrection heading to Honduras this weekend for a medical and dental trip? Please pause to pray for them as they provide medical and dental care and hygiene education to people who have little access to medical care. There are a lot of opportunities to serve others and to grow in your faith in this week's congregational enews. You can read this week's e-news from our Leawood Campus here.
For those of you K-State and KU grads, I'd like to invite you to join our bishop and his wife for the annual Cat-Hawk challenge – a night of barbecue and fun, raising money for United Methodist campus ministries providing ministry to students at KU and K-State. LaVon and I make an annual gift as parents of a daughter who has a degree from K-State and is working on a second at KU. The Challenge is on Saturday, October 18 from 5 to 7 at Valley View UMC at 95th and Antioch. For more information, to make reservations or to pledge online visit http://cathawkchallenge.net.
The last time the Royals were in the playoffs I had just graduated from college. It's going to be a great weekend. Don't forget to wear your Royals blue to worship!
Adam
The Church of the Resurrection
The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection
13720 Roe Avenue
Leawood, Kansas 66224 United States
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