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Written: 6/29/2009 By Susan Cooper Associate director of Communications SALINA—Missouri Area Bishop Robert Schnase told attendees of the 2009 Kansas West Annual Conference that vibrant, fruitful, growing congregations have things in common, and there are certain things they have to do well to fulfill the missi...
Written: 6/29/2009 By Lisa Elliott Diehl and Susan Cooper Director and associate director of Communications SALINA—Stories celebrating the radical hospitality of the United Methodist Church and the Kansas West Conference were the focus of the Mission Celebration at the Kansas West Annual Conference May 20...
Written: 6/29/2009 By Lisa Elliott Diehl Director of Communications SALINA—The Kansas West Annual Conference recognized nine retirees during the 2009 Retirement Service. Revs. Curtis Cadenhead, Frank DeFisher, Nancy Goddard, Jim Pollom, Gerald Pringle, Don Swender and Linda Toms participated in the service May...
Written: 6/29/2009 By Lisa Elliott Diehl Director of Communications SALINA—Nine people were commissioned for ministry, and six were ordained elders in the United Methodist Church at the May 21 Ordination and Commissioning Service for the Kansas West Annual Conference. The service was at Kansas Wesleyan Unive...
Written: 6/29/2009 By Susan Cooper Associate director of Communications SALINA—At the 2009 Memorial Service at the Bicentennial Center in Salina, Rev. Rick Just shared the message, “Crossing Over.” Just, who is the pastor at Leoti United Methodist Church, told the congregation that a great cloud o...
Written: 6/29/2009 Marketing and Communications Council Pastor Jeff Slater, chairperson, presented the Marketing and Communications Council report. He introduced Ken Sloan of United Methodist Communications, who made a presentation explaining “Rethink Church,” which is an outgrowth of the “Open Hear...
Written: 5/29/2009 By Susan Cooper and Lisa Elliott Diehl Associate director and director of Marketing and Communications SALINA—Radical hospitality was the focus of the Kansas West Annual Conference May 20-22 at the Bicentennial Center in Salina. From the opening worship service to the fixing of appointments,...
Written: 4/28/2009 By Susan Cooper Marketing and Commmunications Associate Director WICHITA—Missouri Area Bishop Robert Schnase will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 Kansas West Annual Conference in Salina. Schnase has written several books, including the popular “Five Practices of Fruitful Congregatio...
Written: 6/25/2008 By Lisa Elliott Diehl Marketing and Communications director The key to survival for the United Methodist Church is finding a heart for the unchurched in the communities surrounding its congregations, said Rev. Adam Hamilton, senior pastor at United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood. ...
Written: 6/23/2008 By Sue Dondlinger Kansas West Conference capital campaign director Congratulations! Kansas West Conference United Methodists exceeded the $4.2 million goal for the “Bridges to the Future” capital campaign. At Annual Conference on May 29, we celebrated the fact that pledges have so far ...
Written: 6/23/2008 By Rev. Bill Fitzgerrel Special contributor “We are a world of hope in a world of hurt” was the theme of Dixie Brewster’s message during Opening Worship that began the 2008 Kansas West Annual Conference in Salina. Brewster called on the conference to grasp onto Christian hope&mda...
Written: 6/23/2008 By Rev. Bill Fitzgerrel Special contributor Members of the Kansas West Conference celebrated the commissioning and ordination of ministers along with family members and friends at the Salina Bicentennial Center on the evening of May 29. Bishop Scott Jones conducted the service and admonished minis...
Written: 6/23/2008 By Rev. Bill Fitzgerrel Special contributor When Rev. Mark Conard’s stepmother was dying last December, he said the old Methodist Youth Fellowship benediction to her. He remembered the benediction from his youth, and he recited it by heart. However, he left out a line and only remembered it ...
Dinner celebrates Rural Fellowship ministry
Written: 6/23/2008 Council on Finance and Administration The conference adopted a $5.9 million budget for 2009 and reduced the multiplier in the formula for figuring each church’s mission and ministry share by .25 percent, from 12.75 percent in 2008 to 12.5 percent for 2009. Local Church Reports, or statistics...
2008 Award and Recognitions
Written: 6/16/2008 By Susan Cooper “Kansas West Connection” editor Rev. Adam Hamilton, senior pastor at Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, talked about effective worship and preaching during the second portion of his three-part keynote message at the 2008 Kansas West Annual Conference May 29. He beg...
Written: 6/13/2008 By Lisa Elliott Diehl Marketing and Communications director It’s time for the United Methodist Church to stop repeating the same things and expecting different results, Rev. Adam Hamilton told members of the Kansas West Annual Conference during the first of three presentations May 29. Hami...
Written: 6/4/2008 By Lisa Elliott Diehl Marketing and Communications director As one of her final acts as conference lay leader, Dixie Brewster preached the opening worship service of the 2008 Kansas West Annual Conference on hope. The annual meeting was May 28-30 at the Bicentennial Center in Salina. “This ...
‘Rusty Pennies’ to perform at Annual Conference
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