For Fairfax Christian Church, listening is an important part of worshiping in community. To solicit suggestions for improvements, the church office conducted a congregational survey in 2017. One congregant’s response immediately captured the attention of the church’s leaders. That member missed listening to something more specific at church: the sounds of children. Three years earlier, […]
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Green Chalice, a partnership ministry of Disciples Home Missions and the Kentucky region, has joined the Justice for Each Generation campaign, which invites leaders to pledge to deliver a sermon about climate change. This campaign, according to its website, was inspired by a group of 21 youth who filed a lawsuit against the United States […]
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Stewardship is a key spiritual practice that impacts every area of our living faithfully in response to the generosity of God. Understanding this discipline as it relates to caring for creation, observing Sabbath, tending to the care for ourselves, sharing the good news of the gospel, and managing our resources is one pathway to individual […]
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Submitted by Rev. Bruce D. Ervin We picked up right where we left off. That was my sense as I looked around the table as a group of former Chi Rho campers gathered for dinner, 50 years after we’d last been together at camp. Folks engaged in spirited conversation, enjoying each other’s company. It was […]
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For nearly 20 years, Ozark Christian Church, in Ozark, MO, has focused on improving health in their community in a unique way: one carton of milk at a time. Through their “Operation Half Pint” project, Ozark’s outreach committee raises money for the local school district to provide milk for young students. In their school system, […]
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From the NBA Grants Committee Through its Mission and Ministry Grants Program, the National Benevolent Association (NBA) of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is granting a total of $150,250 to 21 Disciples projects and ministries working with older adults and at-risk children and youth. Read the full story about this first cohort of grantees […]
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In 1994, Pastor David Huegel was noodling over how to get his children engaged in reading the Bible. His quest led him to develop Bible Olympics. Since that time hundreds of kids and adults have participated in the meets and pumped up their Biblical literacy. Each meet of five to seven teams covers a single […]
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The 2017 Chuukese Youth Rally was held on June 15-18 in St. Joseph, MO, hosted by Chuukese Christian Church (DOC) in St. Joseph. The Chuukese, an ethnic group indigenous to an island of Micronesia, is one of 18 ethnic and linguistic groups that make up the North American Pacific/Asian Disciples (NAPAD), which has grown to […]
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It was a class on interreligious dialogue that opened the eyes of Rev. Dr. Michael Kosik to what was missing in the field – children. “I think children are the most important community to explore in this work,” Kosik said, “because that’s when our thoughts and stereotypes about other people are forming – as very […]
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by Dorothy Thurman, Central Christian Church, Springfield MO Events conspired to culminate in a native plant garden our people are now excited about at Central Christian in Springfield, MO. About the same time our minister, Geoff Weinman, told us about the Green Chalice project last fall, a friend of mine offered to give me some […]
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