Weekly Word

Amani Community Church celebrated New Year’s eve beginning at 9 PM until 4 AM January 1. This was after the Paradizo Choir had sung and Pastor Masemo Wakibogo had preached at a two-hour service at another church in Wichita. Before midnight people shared prayer requests and were prayed for interspersed with singing. After midnight people […]

​​​After learning of a great increase of refugee families arriving in the Wichita area this year, Hesston Mennonite Church hosted an Angel Tree for cleaning supplies and had an overwhelming response in donations (see photos). These items were dropped off a few weeks ago AND HAVE ALREADY BEEN DISBURSED to newcomer families. The International Rescue Committee Wichita donation […]

Amani Community Church celebrated their second anniversary on December 12 in a three-hour worship service with exuberant singing and a grand dinner that some of the women had spent most of the night preparing.  It was announced that the initial Building Fund Goal of $50,000 has been reached. Praise the Lord! The Amani leadership gave […]

At the Feet of Christ Church in Wichita, Kansas has welcomed 8 new believers to their church through baptism in the last year.  Many of them were young adults who existing members of the church had invited.  Although the church is not large, it is impressive that they have been successful in their outreach.  Pastor […]

Local Christian author Kim Vogel Sawyer was hosted by Spring Valley Mennonite and other area churches October 16 at the Canton KS Community Center. Coffee, cookies and fellowship was enjoyed by about 40 ladies who came from seven of the surrounding communities. These ladies heard Kim’s remarkable story of a personal God who has been […]

We want to celebrate with Journey Mennonite Church the 50+ years of the Turkey Dinner that is coming to a close. Feeding 1,500 people a home cooked Turkey dinner with all the fixings and pie has been a huge undertaking. Facing another year of the effects of an ongoing pandemic, supply chain delays, and volunteers […]

Omot and Hanna Aganya, who planted Eden Life Church in Kansas City, MO in 2016, are working to resource and help organize a new church plant in Rochester, Minnesota.  When they became aware that many people from their ethnic group in Ethiopia were living in Rochester, South Central Mennonite Conference applied for a grant from […]

The Calico Rock (Arkansas) Mennonite Fellowship was started in 1967 largely as a result of Dr Meryl Grasse and his wife Gladys’ medical work in Izard County, Arkansas.  The church declined in the past few years to the point that the people remaining decided to close the church.  More conservative Mennonites have been moving to […]

God is Good!  Sometimes I am amazed at all the ways God provides and guides us to just where he knows is his best for us.  When I learned through my work with SCMC that the youth group from Iglesia Menonita del Cordero in Brownsville, TX was attending the recent MC USA convention at the […]