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  • ​Anti-Racism Training on Zoom
    April 25, May 9 and 23, 6:00-8:00 p.m. (CST)
​         Registration deadline is Friday, April 8th. (Click Here for Details) Register HERE.
  • Journey Towards Justice - Holy Week 2022 - Click Here
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Saturday, May 2
Friday, May 1
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020
  • Update about the continuing Micah Ministry is on the CV Opportunities to Serve page
  • See this Pastoral Letter from Rev. Dr. Brandon Gilvin to the First Christian Church in Chattenooga, TN (shared with permission)

Monday, April 27, 2020
  • Micah Ministry will be open at 5:30 pm to offer sack meals at curbside and parking lot.
    • The The Kansas City, Missouri Health Department is going to be setting up four pop-up testing sites for use on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Independence Boulevard is one of those sites but people must call in advance to register for one of the 500 tests available starting today.
    • Micah is also offering  help with hygiene, hospitality truck and shower house and free medical services
  • The 8 pm Zoom gathering for clergy and lay leaders is an opportunity for us to connect, to grieve, and to offer prayers.  It will include a 7 minute video by Suzanne Stabile on learning to Grieve - something that many of us may think we are too busy to do.  To prevent disruptions of gatherings by Zoom, access information for Tuesday and Thursday conferences was included in the newsletter sent Friday, April 24.  Contact Jessica for the link to that page.
  • Starting this week, we would like to collect photos of 650 kb or less of where you see God at work to put in a gallery on our kcdisciples home page and Facebook page.  Send them to Bill.  We will post in batches of three and change as often as we receive them.  God is still in the blessing business!
  
Friday, April 24, 2020
Testing for COVID-19 is now available in central Kansas City, Missouri!  Please call 816-404-2273 before you go. 
  • Tuesdays @ Morning Star Baptist Church (27th & Prospect) [PLEASE NOTE: Beginning on May 2]
  • Wednesdays, 12 noon-4:00 pm @ St. James United Methodist Church (54th & Paseo) 
  • Fridays, 10:00 am-2:00 pm @ Second Baptist Church, (39th & Monroe) 
Many thanks to these churches and to Truman Medical Center!!!

Wednesday April 22, 2020
  • Our Regional Board voted to enter into a Management Agreement with United Camps, Conferences and Retreats effective August 1, 2020.  This is the result of discernment, research, and negotiation that began in August, 2019 and involved the participation of the Tall Oaks, Inc. Board all the way.  The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Greater Kansas City retains ownership of the campus and responsibility for major maintenance, programming and capital improvements.  UCCR will assume responsibility for hiring and paying staff, compliance with regulations, regular maintenance, accounting, and all other day-to-day operations.  The UCCR Board will meet in early May to ratify the agreement. 
  • Given the many requests for information regarding when and how congregations will reopen, we will schedule two Zoom conferences (2 pm and 7 pm April 30th). With the latest information from regular the College of Regional Ministers, General units of the Church and the ecumenical community, we will share resources and engage in conversation about ways to assure the safety of our most vulnerable   We will record these sessions and make them available.  All who wish to participate (up to 100 people per conference) will be welcome.  Details will be sent by email to all who receive our E-Connect newsletters.  Not a subscriber?  Click here.  
  • In the meantime, this video link was shared with us by Bishop Valerie Melvin of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of North Carolina.  It is a hopeful 4 minutes packed with great ideas for thinking about our future together.
  • Grief, as was pointed out by Rev. Dr. Kennebrew during our KC Disciples Leader Tuesday evening Zoom conversation, is differently experienced this month than it might have been when we first took the pandemic seriously.  On Tuesday, April 28, we will feature a 7-minute video by Suzanne Stabile on Learning to Grieve to kick off the conversation.  Details in the E-Connect newsletter.

Sunday, April 19, 2020
  • Find an online worship service
  • Calendar of Regional Events
  • Check the rest of the home page buttons for the latest information related to being the Church during the pandemic
  • Next KC Disciples Leaders online meeting is Tuesday and will premier our use of videos from The Work of the People
  • We are reaching out to the Director of Health for KCMO to see about offering some of our church parking lots for drive-through or walk-up COVID-19 testing.  Please keep this in your prayers
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