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Tweet The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle reported Thursday that Congregation Kol Ami has put the building at Belinder Avenue and 75th Street that it’s occupied since 2005 up for sale. The listing price is $1.4 million. The president of the congregation, which has around 90 members, told the paper that its board of directors had [...]
Tweet If all the bustling of the season has left you behind schedule, fret not: there’s still time to get a handsome Christmas tree for your house. Both the Prairie Village Lions Club and Boy Scout Troop 199 are still holding their annual tree sales. This year, the Lions Club has moved from its previous [...]
Tweet Southmister Presbyterian congregation members spent Thursday night going through the dress rehearsal of their annual Journey to Bethlehem living nativity scene. Now in its 26th year, the program transforms the church’s hallways and meeting rooms into scenes from the story of Jesus Christ’s birth. The story starts in Nazareth, where a local magistrate, flanked [...]
Tweet KMBC reported earlier this week that a local church’s trailer filled with equipment for a special Christmas service was stolen over the Thanksgiving holiday. Mercy Church, which used to meet at Indian Hills Middle School and has recently moved to the Congregation Kol Ami temple, had the trailer parked in the Kol Ami lot [...]
Tweet Janelle has a full time job. But as a single mother with three kids, both money and time with her children are tight. So for the past three months, Janelle has brought the family to Lutheran Church of the Resurrection at 91st Street and Mission Road every Saturday morning for breakfast. The free meal doesn’t [...]
Tweet For Kansas State University geography professor John Harrington, the data about global climate change is as clear as day. But a concerted campaign of misinformation, he says, has made the issue politically foggy. “The message has been around for 35 years,” he said. “The planet is warming. And now we now know that humans [...]
Tweet The dusty streets of Iraq and the gritty realities of human trafficking are a world away from peaceful Prairie Village. But they were a powerful chapter in the life story of an Olathe man scheduled to speak at Colonial Church this Sunday. As an Army Reservist in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Ted Lockwood served as [...]
Tweet Readers of the New York Times got a glimpse at Prairie Village in Sunday’s fashion section. SM East graduate Hanne Duncan, née Gradinger, and beau Duncan’s 2010 wedding at Village Presbyterian Church was featured in a story on quirky wedding exits. The Duncans, who met at a bike race in the mid-2000s and took [...]
Tweet Lutheran Church of the Resurrection Pastor Alix Pridgen’s congregation had a vision for the future. Trouble was, Pridgen was having a hard time seeing how they could get there. She had worked with lay leaders and members for two years on a plan for keeping the church relevant in the 21st Century. During that [...]
Tweet Village Presbyterian helped wish Kansas a happy 150th birthday — and give kids some much-needed winter activity — Sunday at its third annual Winter Carnival. The event, which drew approximately 200 people, featured Kansas themed games — like Twister, in honor of our tornado-prone climate: And a pancake race, in honor of the international [...]
Tweet With Chrismas Eve just a week away (!!!), there are a handful of fun holiday activities on the docket this weekend — and some Lancers basketball as well. Friday, December 17 The Lancers look to remain unbeaten this season as they head to 2-1 Olathe East. The game starts at 7 p.m. at 14545 [...]
Tweet Some of the usual attendees of Sunday services at Southminster Presbyterian may not recognize the inside of the church right now. A Sunday school classroom and chapel have been transformed into Herrod’s court and an ancient market. Normal hallways have been transformed into paths to the city of Jesus’ birth. The church kicked off [...]
Tweet Members of several local churches and two synagogues came together at Asbury United Methodist Church, 5400 West 75th St., Sunday afternoon for the annual ecumenical Thanksgiving service. Participating congregations included Prairie Baptist Church Congregation Ohev Shalom, Cherokee Christian Church, Village Presbyterian Church, Colonial United Church of Christ, Southminster Presbyterian Church, Congregation Kol Ami, and [...]
Tweet Runoff from Kansas farms and livestock feedlots doesn’t just pose a threat to the state’s waterways — it poses a threat to rivers, lakes and even oceans hundreds of miles away. That was one of the messages that came out of the annual community environmental forum, held last night at Village Presbyterian Church. Kansas [...]
Tweet It was banjos, bass, fiddle and fun at Harmon Park last night as the Prairie Pocket Pickers closed out this summer’s Fourth Fridays Concert Series. Nancy Sinovic Price of Hillcrest Covenant Church, which founded the event seven years ago, said the impetus for the event came from church member Dorie Brown, who wanted to [...]
Tweet Colonial United Church of Christ’s new minister, Reverend Aaron Roberts, may have spent much of his life in the Midwest, but the Spokane, Wash., native has seen places far afield. In the late 1990s, when he was working at a dot com in the Twin Cities (before he’d entered the ministry), Roberts got involved [...]
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