Weekly Word




Alleluia!
It was a joy-filled day at both our campuses! At the 9:30 a.m service at Mission Campus, every worship space was full: Sanctuary, Chapel, and Friendship Hall. Worshipers at the Antioch Campus enjoyed cake pops and choral students from Pembroke Hill high school joined our faithful choir members in song. We love seeing our buildings so full of life on the day that Christians everywhere proclaim that death has been overcome!
Worship Times
9 and 11 a.m. (Sanctuary) and 4 p.m. for the Gathering service (Sanctuary, starting April 27) at the Mission Campus
and 9:30 a.m. at the Antioch Campus.
Serve
Kansas City Blood Shortage – Save a life with Community Blood Center at our Blood Drive TODAY Tuesday, April 22 from 1-6 p.m. at the Mission Campus, Rooms 132 & 133. 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! We’re into spring and summer now, so no fall and winter clothes, please. Also, we have enough water bottles and egg cartons for now. If you are saving them, please recyle 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.
Climate Change: We are Adapting – 9:30-10:30 a.m., Sunday, April 27, Rooms 126/127. This class by Chick Keller will examine efforts to address climate change by adapting or mitigating its consequences (Hint: 80% of Americans are now adapting, instead of mitigating).
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 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 for supporting our mission! Donate HERE.
Save the Date – Saturday, Oct. 11 for Celebration Dominicana—celebrating 30 years of the Dominican Republic Medical Partnership! More info to come.

music ministry
EncoreKC! – 3 p.m. Sunday April 27, Antioch Campus Sanctuary. Free concert this Sunday featuring this KC community group of singers and musicians over the age of 50.
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 – 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 as you. Meetings are every Thursday at 9 a.m. in Room 132 at the Mission Campus.
Presbyterian women
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.
young adults
Y.A.M. Picnic in the Park – 5:30 p.m. tonight. 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!
Party in the Park – 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 14. All young adults—individuals, couples, parents (and their kids)—are invited for a picnic at Franklin Park (8706 Roe Ave.) to celebrate a year of growth and fellowship in Young Adult Ministry! No cost, but sign up HERE to let us know you’re coming.
youth Ministry
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:
It is EARTH DAY! Stop using harmful pesticides and fertilizers that contaminate water sources, pollute the soil, harm biodiversity, and negatively impact non-target insects (such as bees, butterflies, and lady bugs). *Village Presbyterian Church is a certified Earth Care Congregation.
“The stories these walls could tell.”
The renovation of Friendship Hall began Monday. We are quick to see God’s work in the natural world, but what about the buildings that are created by human hands? How do the rooms in which we live speak to us of God? Rev. Maggie Johnson Phillips wrote these words as we gave thanks and blessed the space Sunday afternoon for what it has meant to so many for decades:
“So, as we turn to this time of recreation, we remember all of the moments in this room that have been significant. There have been more than 650 Gathering worship services, more than 500 Wednesday Family Dinners, countless session meetings, and numerous memorial receptions to remember loved ones. There has been laughter, and there have been tears. There have been introductions between new people and hugs between old friends. These walls contain part of the vital ministry of Village Presbyterian Church. We now wait with great expectation as this space is painted, crafted, shifted, and molded into a new space for ministry. The walls will be a different color, the carpet will feel slightly different, but the heartbeat of Friendship Hall will not change. For the same God we have worshiped in this space for years and years will welcome us back to the new space in just a few months.”
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