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Pastor E-NoteFinding Hope, Youth Mission Trip Update Greeting Topeka First UMC, I hope that you are having a great week! Thank you so much to everyone who played a role in the youth dinner theater! What a great weekend with the youth group performing the skits, great food, and a lot of laughs. Thanks to all of your generous donations throughout this calendar year (including the Christmas Eve 2023 offering portion) the youth mission trip fund is at $8,538! If you missed the Dinner Theater, you'll be able to watch the skits using the links below. Our sermon series, "Finding Hope" continues this Sunday as we turn to finding hope in the midst of shame. Why would we have a week dealing with shame in the middle of a mental health sermon series? When we do something wrong, guilt would say that I have done something wrong. Shame says I am bad and unworthy of love. So often, mental illness is the byproduct of excessive shame. This Sunday, we will see someone experiencing a deep sense of shame in the bible and look at how Jesus helps in overcoming that shame. General Conference begins next Tuesday, April 23. This is the conference for our worldwide denomination that comes up every four years where our guiding principles and governing rules can be amended or edited. As you may remember, General Conference was never convened in 2020 because of COVID. Therefore, this conference that begins next week will take on extra importance. I will be sure to email updates next week as the conference unfolds. My prayer is for the Holy Spirit to be present, and for God's wisdom to be with everyone at General Conference. On Sunday, we will pray for General Conference, and for Randall Hodgkinson who will be a delegate representing the Great Plains Conference. It'd be great if a few folks could help be greeters at the 9:30 & the 10:45 service this week. No one has signed up yet to help....if you're available, please click the link and sign up to greeting, serving communion, or reading liturgy See you Sunday, Pastor Brad Please reference the complete church calendar for ongoing events. |
Dinner Theater Update & Videos
Great work, everyone! Thank you to our volunteers & youth for making the Dinner Theater last weekend happen! We are in a good place financially going into our summer mission trip. Check out the videos linked below to rewatch the fun! |
Sharefest
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Pastor Karissa's Greece Presentation
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Young Adults
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Senior Adults
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Mission News
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