WORSHIP & PROGRAMS
Rise & Shine
Sunday Mornings - 10:15 a.m.
Join us in the Parlor for fellowship, coffee, and light snacks.
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Adult Sunday School
Nursery for Sunday Mornings
Consider joining the adult Sunday School class as they study the Letter to the Romans. Bible study is a great way to deepen your faith and to connect with others as you share your thoughts and questions.
They meet at 9:30 am on Sunday mornings in the fellowship hall. New
faces are always welcome!
During worship, we have a special time for our young disciples.
We love the sound of infants and small children worshiping among us. We have a hall tree full of activity bags to help keep your little worshiper engaged. If you prefer, we also offer a fully-staffed nursery from 10:15 to 11:30 a.m. on Sunday mornings (for infants through kindergarten-age children).
Your Generosity Changes Lives
NEW OFFICERS
Following a long process, our church will now be governed by a single board.
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Listed below are the people who will start serving in 2026.
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Lay Leader
Sandee Morris
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Class of 2026
Bonnie Coverdale
Carrie Kahle
Rhonda Magnison
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Class of 2027
Steve Bowser
Janet Mercer
Lucas White
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Class of 2028
Alex Belveal
Pat Fontaine
Tristan Parks
Embrace Joy
Don't forget to pick up the special Advent booklet Embrace Joy which contains short readings for every day of Advent. It's a great way to prepare for the coming of the Christ child.
Lenten Study
Led by Pastor Dawn
Starting November 30 we will have a four week Advent Study led by Pastor Dawn.
The book Almost Christmas will use John Wesley’s sermon The Almost Christian as a way to examine how we can move from an “almost” experience of the love, hope, joy and peace of the Christmas season into fully realized “altogether” experience.
We will meet Sundays at 5 pm. Hope to see you there!
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Food Pantry: A Friendly Reminder
When you shop at Cecil K's, ask them to scan a donation for the Jackson County Ministerial Alliance New Hope Food Pantry. You can choose between $5, $10, and $20 amounts and have it added to your total bill. These funds help the pantry fill empty slots, as needed.
THE NEED IS GREAT.
Consider donating to your local food pantry or Harvesters
(https://www.harvesters.org/topeka-relocation) or Society of St. Andrew (https://endhunger.org/) a gleaning organization.
These are very concrete ways to fulfill the command of Jesus to feed his sheep (John 21:17).
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A Note From
Pastor Dawn
As we come to the end of the year, it is so easy for me to go full force ahead and leave the bitter times behind, to forget that I ever suffered at all this year, and immerse myself fully in the festivities. I tend to focus on the highlights to the exclusion of the lowlights. Maybe it's some kind of coping mechanism.
But as I start to see the bigger picture of reality, I see that dark colors are needed as well as light, that low notes come in a provide a backdrop against which the high notes sparkle, like stars in the night sky. Distress prepares our hearts to receive joy much in the same way that a hoe opens a row in the soil to receive the seeds. There must be space for it to take root and grow.
If your life was joy on top of joy, eventually new joy would just fall off the top of the stack without a place being properly prepared for it. Advent is such a time of preparation - a time to prepare our hearts to receive the joy of the newly born Savior, the appearance of God in the world.
At the end of this year I plan to look back on my experiences, both happy and sad, bitter and sweet, giving weight and consideration to each and attempt to combine them artfully to see what picture emerges. Instead of naming some "good" and some "bad" I hope to be able to look upon this snapshot from my life as full of earthly beauty.
I believe that if you are able to assimilate your disappointments and your hopes into the story of your life then your resiliency will shine through and the picture that emerges will be a truly unique masterpiece.
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