Weekly Word

The pastoral team of Journey Mennonite Church was buoyed throughout 2020 by a fantastic partnership with eleven:28 ministries.  Each staff member was offered the opportunity to have monthly spiritual direction from one of eleven:28’s team of spiritual directors.  This provided each person on staff a chance to talk openly about the condition of their own […]

Friday, February 12, 2021 was a happy day for Pastor Omot Aganya, pastor of Eden Life Church.  That was the day insulation and new ceiling tiles were installed over their church building’s 2,000 square foot sanctuary.  It was also the day his wife, Hanna, had an interview and was hired for a job and Omot […]

Hesston Mennonite Church offered a warm winter welcome to their cross-campus neighbors at Hesston College. We prayed for rich learning experiences, delightful new adventures, and deeper relationships with Christ and the people surrounding each of the students. While the congregation longs to meet the students in person, to welcome them into our worship space and […]

We are overjoyed to announce that Cathy Wagler has been licensed for ministry as Co-network Director of South Central Mennonite Conference (SCMC).  As network directors, Cathy and her husband, Howard (ordained for pastoral ministry since 1992), work to support and encourage the congregations and pastors of SCMC.  Cathy was licensed by the SCMC Ministerial Leadership […]

The SCMC Network Leadership Team has been working to process data from the Discovery 20.21 Process as they discern and listen to God’s spirit together.  They are continuing into phase 3 of the process of discerning next steps but have not yet arrived at a clear vision of what God desires next for SCMC.  They […]

Church life was becoming more and more limited. We suspended our weekly Fellowship Meals and intergenerational activities due to Covid 19. We eventually went to Live-Stream only worship services. These changes were hard on the whole congregation, but especially our elderly. We pastors were brainstorming how to stay connected with the elderly. We divided up […]

This summer a long-time church member Anna Nida approached us about two of her great-grandkids, Tony and Gaby, expressing an interest in getting baptized. Tony and Gaby attended AMC as toddlers through their middle school years and participated in Sunday School regularly. Over the last three or four years they had stopped coming and we […]

Amani Community Church, Wichita, Kansas, invites you to celebrate their one year anniversary with them this Sunday, December 6, 2020. The church is a rich fellowship of recent immigrants from Africa who speak Swahili.  Pastor Masemo Wakibogo and his family came from eastern Congo via Kenya. Masemo studied at Hesston College with a dream of […]

Omot Aganya (in the photo on the right), pastor of Eden Life Church in Kansas City, has a vision to start more congregations among his ethnic group that live in some other cities.  So far he has visited Sioux Falls, SD and Rochester, MN and has had good contacts with people who speak the Anuak […]