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Churches can learn from non-profit approach to fundraising
Written: 9/1/2010
By Lisa Elliott Diehl
Communications director
TOPEKA—People give to organizations when they believe in the mission, have high regard for staff leadership and know the organization is fiscally responsible.
“We in the church have got to understand what our people are thinking and get be...
Yates Center UMC reaches out to community
Written: 8/25/2010 3:49:28 PM
By Rev. Russ Anderson
Special contributor
YATES CENTER—“What if?” It was not a very complicated question posited by the United Methodist Change the World campaign back in April of this year.
“What if … on one weekend all around the world, 11 million United Methodist...
Church members invited to pray for and with college campuses
Written: 8/12/2010
New school supplies, check.
Overpriced books, check.
Fast food gift cards, check.
Prayer guide, check.
As we approach the fall semester, there are millions of students who are returning to study math, education, art, history and many other areas of study. They are doing this in...
Fort Hays campus ministry students play variety of roles
Written: 8/12/2010
Back in the day, when someone was very busy, people would say they wore a lot of hats. At the United Methodist Campus Ministry at Fort Hays, students don’t wear hats, but they do wear a lot of different t-shirts.
Programming begins on Tuesdays. For Chat-n-chew, a free weekly meal for 25 &ndas...
Living Water youth leads mission day camp
Written: 8/4/2010
By Lisa Elliott Diehl
Communications director
PIPER—Lindsay Albracht was looking for a project to do for her Girl Scout Gold Award, the equivalent of the Boy Scout Eagle Award.
The Living Water congregation wanted to host a couple of different mission outreach events this summer in place of...
La Gonave project first to get underway in partnership
Written: 7/26/2010
TOPEKA--A project to build a manse, or parsonage, on the island of La Gonave, Haiti, will be the beneficiary of an appeal from the Star Thrower Society in the Kansas East Annual Conference.
The project is one of three specific needs identified by Gesner Paul, president of the Haitian Methodist Chur...
Anderson attending Global Young People�s Convocation
Written: 7/19/2010
OLATHE, Kan. -- Miriah Anderson, a former Kansas East Conference Council on Youth Ministry president, is one of five young adults from the South Central Jurisdiction chosen to attend the Global Young People’s Convocation July 20.
Five youth and five young adults were chosen to attend from eac...
Buesing hired as new assistant treasurer for KEC
Written: 7/14/2010
By Susan Cooper
Associate director of Communications
TOPEKA—When Niki Buesing was interviewing for the assistant treasurer position for the Kansas East Conference, she asked the hiring team how long they expected it would take for the person filling the job to be comfortable doing it. The an...
ABIDE program helps Blue Mound UMC revitalize
Written: 7/6/2010
By Marvé Ralston
Special contributor
BLUE MOUND—Nestled in a small town consisting mainly of a gas station, café, bar and two churches is Blue Mound United Methodist Church. The building was built in the late 1800s. This past year, it received a new roof and a new upstairs kitc...
Conference Board of Church & Society sends letter to Sen. Brownback
Written: 6/30/2010
Honorable Senator Sam Brownback
United States Senate
303 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington D.C. 20510
Dear Honorable Senator Brownback,
The Kansas East Conference of the United Methodist Church gathered at United Methodist Church of the Resurrection June 9 to 12. Durin...