Christ Community Evangelical Free Church Briefs
This week’s church notices cover services and events across Lawrence. Christ Community Evangelical Free Church meets at 10 15 a m Sunday at Quail Creek Apartments clubhouse with children’s church and nursery. CROP walks fund hunger relief through Lawrence Lecompton Perry Lake with sponsor options and registrations. Trinity Episcopal Church hosts a fair, carnival, and a pancake breakfast supporting local charities. Plymouth Congregational plans church school sign up and a pancake feed benefiting eight service organizations and local groups. ESL classes start at the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints at 9 00 a m. Lawrence Unitarians hold yearly cleanup and Labor Day picnic at Pleasant Valley Road. Labor Day celebration on the church lawn includes music by Blue Stem Band and activities with proceeds shared among Depot Board United Methodist Round-Up for Hunger. The community event aims to illustrate church value in Lawrence since 1866.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ Community Evangelical Free Church
Quail Creek
Hasold
Lawrence
Lecompton
United Methodist Church
Perry Lake
Christian Rural Overseas Program
Janet Bauman
Trinity Episcopal Church
Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen
Emergency Services Council
Gretchen Eick
Mike Poage
Plymouth 2 Congregational Church
Douglas County Rape Victim Support Services
Ecumenical Christian eMinistries
Evangelical Children’s Home
Habitat For
Lawrence Unitarian Fellowship
Pleasant Valley Road
U.S. Highway 59
Centenary United Methodist Church
North Lawrence
Southampton
Long Island
Depot Board
United Methodist
God Made All of Me Activities for Young Children
Jolynn Johanning, longtime preschool overseer at St. John School and Corpus Christi Parish, created a low cost activity book for preschool to third grade with a religious focus. The book emphasizes self image, God, community, and church family using simple, household materials. It has sold about 1,600 copies since publication last October and is paired with a forthcoming 22 song tape and songbook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John School
Corpus Christi
Jolynn Johanning
Resource Publications
San Jose
Calif
Johanning
Robert
Jacquelynn
Daniel
Mike Yoder
Church OKs women as priests in Southern Africa
The Anglican Church of the Province of Southern Africa approved ordaining women as priests by a 79 percent majority at its synod. It stresses no bishop must ordain women, amid opposition from some leaders. The church spans 23 dioceses across six nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mbabane
Swaziland
Anglican Church
Southern Africa
Desmond Tutu
South Africa
Mozambique
Lesotho
St. Helena
Namibia
Anglican Communion
Colin Jones
Cape Town
Jones
Erosion of Confidence After Clergy Sexual Abuse Cases
New research reports a sharp loss of trust in churches and ministers due to recent priest child abuse cases. The study, focused on Roman Catholics, surveyed 1,810 active lay people nationwide and finds anger, sadness, and doubt about the church's ability to police its ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mystic, Conn
Stephen J. Rossetti
Chestnut Hill
Mass
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