
The Administrative Council held a meeting in April to discuss returning to in-person worship. Please realize that this is not considered to be a re-opening of church because the church is never closed. Instead, the council discussion revolved around how to safely return to gathering for worship. This was a particularly difficult discussion due to…

Birthdays 4th-Mary Alice Weber 8th-Barbara Hoelzel 10th-Lily Courtois 13th-Jackie Brown 16th-Marvin Jinkerson & David Loucks 17th-Kent Graves 18th-Judy Doyle, Clayton Parkin, & Barbara Duncan 19th-Jim Foster 21st-Alec Huffman 23rd-Jack Robinson 26th-Becky Bradford 28th-Joe Bean & Will Weber 30th-Greg Schellert & Areena Smith Anniversaries 15th-Bob and Bryanna Alexander 27th-Richard and Norma Bell 27th-Padre and Darlene Payne…

Roger Ross, Director of Congregational Excellence for The Missouri Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church, recently wrote a book entitled, Come Back – Returning to the Life You Were Made For. In the book, Ross references something called a “Cynicism Spiral” – a spiral of emotions whose end result is being stuck in cynicism.…

For several years now, we have supported a student through the Rainbow Network. We just received a new student! Here’s a little bit that Enyel shared: My name is Enyel and I am from La Concha. I live with my parents and three older siblings. My mom works on a nearby peanut farm, earning $70…

The Food Pantry items you can drop off in May are a mixed bag. They need several common items that you might be able to pull from your pantry. dry pasta Jell-o; the fruit flavored gelatin, not pudding small cans of tomato sauce canned peas You can drop these items off at church on Mondays,…