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Written: 3/17/2010 12:46:41 PM Rev. Vance P. Ross will be the featured speaker at the 2010 Kansas West Annual Conference May 26-28 at the Bicentennial Center in Salina. The theme for the 2010 session focuses on intentional faith sharing. From 1994 to 1998, Vance was director of evangelism in racial ethnic new faith communities a...
Haitian Methodist president expresses appreciation
Written: 3/11/2010 10:44:50 AM By Lisa Elliott Diehl Communications director WICHITA—Rev. Jane Voelkel, an ordained elder and member of the Indiana Annual Conference, has been named treasurer and director of administrative services for the Kansas West Annual Conference. Voelkel will begin her duties by attending a Genera...
Written: 3/8/2010 By Kathryn Witte Director of Nebraska Area Communications LINCOLN, NE—“Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” With this reading from Isaiah 43, Nebraska Area Bishop Ann Sherer-...
Written: 3/3/2010 By Susan Cooper Associate director of Communications WICHITA—When the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, two United Methodist missionaries from Kansas were in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Joe and Shirley Edgerton had lived on La Gonâve, an island of Haiti west of...
Written: 2/25/2010 By Susan Cooper Associate director of Communications WICHITA—More than $14,000 and 10,000 health kits donated by members of the Kansas West Conference were delivered Feb. 21 to the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s (UMCOR) Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, La. UMCOR staff plans to di...
Written: 2/19/2010 By Kerrie Ollenburger Special contributor HUTCHINSON—A project by the youth of Hutchinson Trinity United Methodist Church, “2010 by 2010,” produced more than the goal of 2,010 food items. The youth delivered 2,591 items and nearly $400 before Christmas to the Salvation Army to he...
Written: 2/19/2010 By Julie Truhlar Special contributor LINDSBORG—“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.” (Psalm 24:1). During a recent planning retreat at Trinity United Methodist in Lindsborg, several ideas were generated based on the congregati...
Written: 2/19/2010 By Susan Cooper Associate director of Marketing and Communications Recently, author Rev. Dr. Paul Nixon provided 10 “clues” to designing effective, relevant ministry. He addressed “Designing ministry for (and with) your community” at the 2010 Kansas Area Professional Minis...
Thanks to Kansas West churches for paying 100% of 2009 Mission and Ministry commitment
Written: 2/11/2010 By Susan Cooper Associate director of Marketing and Communications WICHITA—“Sometimes the name of the game is just finding out what’s going on.” Rev. Dr. Paul Nixon believes effective ministry hinges on relevancy to the community. He addressed “Designing ministry for...
Follow Kansas West delegation in Zimbabwe on Twitter
Written: 1/27/2010 By Susan Cooper Associate director of Marketing and Communications WICHITA—Rev. Dr. Susanna Southard, a Kansas East Conference elder and professor at Phillips Theological Seminary, believes the Jewish scriptures, commonly referred to as the Old Testament, “tells us about people acting ...
Written: 1/7/2010 3:16:49 PM UDALL—On Nov. 1, the Udall United Methodist Church celebrated 125 years of ministry. Established in 1884, the church has been an influence in Udall as a community of faith that could withstand even the destructive force of the May 1955 tornado that destroyed the town. More than 100 people, in...
Written: 1/7/2010 By Kathy Koehn Special contributor QUINTER—When a call came through the county emergency channels on Nov. 27 about a charter bus that had burned on I-70, a Quinter United Methodist Church member serving as a volunteer EMT began making calls. There was no hesitation on the part of the congreg...
Local schools, families receive help from Haysville UMC members
New wellness program aims to improve clergy health, quality of life
Attendees have a 'BLAST!' at children's ministry training
Hope for Africa tour raises more than $74,000 in Kansas
Kansas West wins walking challenge
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