The Weekly Word

”These are the things that make for peace.”

• 2,520 plastic eggs filled with treats for children to hunt at both our campuses last Sunday.
• $1,190 in donations to the Mission Campus Playground Renovation Fund given last Tuesday at the Celebration of Faithful Women event.
• 180 beautiful Easter lilies arrived last Friday and were delivered over the weekend—first to gracious volunteers and then to our homebound members and friends all over the city.
• 127 Easter lily donations made in honor of loved ones (which funds the Eater lily ministry mentioned above)

Find more photos from Palm Sunday at both campuses on our Facebook Page!

Serve

Kansas City Blood Shortage – Save a life with Community Blood Center at our Blood Drive Tuesday, April 22 from 1-6 p.m. at the Mission Campus, Rooms 132 & 133. Walk in or sign up HERE. Tell your friends and recruit a donor!

Operation Breakthrough needs help with their year-around tutoring program—just one hour per week. Volunteers work one-on-one to assist children with literacy and mathematics. Email Charlotte with questions and to volunteer.

Helping Hands Expands South – Our Antioch pastoral-care team has a wonderful group of people who are called on occasionally to help members with a meal or other small acts of kindness. If you live “out south” and would like to be included on our list of potential volunteers, reach out to Lisa Harrison, 913-681-8180.

Food Pantry & Clothes Closet – Thank you for the recent donations for the Clothes Closet! Volunteers are quickly working through the bags and boxes to make everything availalble to our neighbors in need. We’re well into spring and summer now, so no fall and winter clothes, please. Also, we have enough water bottles and egg cartons for now. Please recycle them.

Engage, Grow, and Celebrate

adult faith formation

Mapping Your Future: How to Find the Right College – Two sessions, two locations: 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, Room 230, Mission Campus or 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, April 24, Multipurpose Room, Antioch Campus. Designed for students in grades 8-11 and their parents, this class—led by Vicki Petersen of VP College Consulting—guides you through the process of identifying the criteria that will help students find best-fit colleges. Register HERE.

Men’s Prayer Breakfast – 8 a.m. Tuesday, April 29, Heritage Dining Room. Rev. Alice Whitson will offer a presentation called, “Unexpected Opportunities for Ministry.“ Please join us for food and fellowship! $7 donation for breakfast.

Village Golf – 8 a.m. Monday, May 12 at Minor Park in Kansas City, MO. Green fee with cart is $42. RSVP to Brad Steil by May 2.

Children & family ministry

Help Us Renovate the Mission Playground! We need to renovate our aging playground, which is used year-round by families at Village and in the area. All donations will be matched by an anonymous donor up to $100,000 to ensure that the project makes it to the finish line. Thank you!

international mission

Medical Clinic in Kenya – Would you like to help fund a three-day medical clinic during a June service trip to Thwake, Kenya with Rev. Maggie Johnson Phillips? About 1,500 men, women, and children with little or no access to medical care will be served. Thank you supporting our mission! Donate HERE.

music ministry

46th Annual “Bachathon” presented by the American Guild of Organists featuring the Village Chamber Choir and KC Baroque Consortium – 2 p.m. Sunday, May 4, in the Mission Campus Sanctuary. Free Admission.

2nd Thursday Recital featuring St. Petersburg String Quartet – 12:15 p.m. Thursday, May 8, in the Mission Campus Chapel. Please join us for a noontime recital with a short reception afterward in the Welcome Center to meet the artists. Free admission.

Pastoral care & Counseling

Widowers’ Support Group meets every Thursday – If your spouse has died or is living with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, you are not alone. You can listen, share, and find fellowship with other men who are walking the same path. Meetings are every Thursday at 9 a.m. in Room 132 at the Mission Campus.

Presbyterian women

Celebration of Faithful Women – Last Tuesday, we celebrated the ministry of women and five extraordinary ones in particular: Joy Biard, Lisa Harrison, Georgia Klein, Susan Satterlee, and Marvie Sneegas. See photos from that lovely evening HERE.

Kemper Museum Tour – 5-7 p.m. Thursday, May 8. Amazing Graces invites all women to an evening of art and appetizers at the Kemper Museum. RSVP to Becky Anderson by May 1. Cost = $35; please Venmo: @Becky-Anderson-65. Group is limited to 50 guests. We will also collect donations for the Village Church Food Pantry.

Women Build – Note: Our Women Build day on May 14 is full! Thank you for volunteering. Our next one will be Sept. 11.

young adults

Y.A.M. Picnic in the Park – 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22. Young adult parents and their kiddos are invited to meet us for food and fun at Meadowbrook Park, Shelter 4. No cost, but sign up HERE to let us know you’re coming! Our next picnic will be Wednesday, May 14.

youth Ministry

No Programs this Sunday! Please note that there will be no youth programs Easter Sunday, April 20. All other programs will proceed as scheduled.

Graduating Senior Dinner – All graduating seniors and their families are invited to join us for dinner on Monday, April 28 from 6-8 p.m. Click HERE for more details and to RSVP.

green tip of the week:

Limit the use of plastics whenever possible and avoid single-use items made of plastic. Reuse. Repurpose. Recycle. *Village Presbyterian Church is a certified Earth Care Congregation.

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