We are collecting school supplies for Della Lamb Community Services charter school. We are collecting: Spiral notebooks and 3-hole loose leaf paper 3-ring plastic binders. Della Lamb Charter School is located in the Northeast Kansas City area. The K-8 school serves about 600 students; 97 percent at the poverty level. Read More...
Please stop by The Well, our book and gift store, beginning Sun., July 17 for the summer clearance sale on selected items. The Well is open 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sundays. All proceeds benefit Week of Compassion.
On Saturday, May 14, high school students who will be participating in the June 2-8 Nicaragua Mission Trip held a benefit car wash in the Combs Chapel lot. The students raised over $700 to purchase recreational equipment to take as gifts to the children in Nicaragua.
We are collecting supplies for VBS! Please check out our “wishlist” by visiting the site below. http://2016.cokesburyvbs.com/cccckc/wish_list/
Join us on Sat., Oct. 8 for Grace at Work, a fun-filled half-day volunteer event open to all ages and abilities. You will have the opportunity to experience fellowship while assisting others in need through participation in various hands-on projects while creating visible change in our community. Complimentary hot breakfast begins at 8:00 Read More...
Country Club Christian Church will provide ongoing support for the first Syrian family to be resettled to the United States under a speeded up “surge operation” to resettle families fleeing that war-torn region.
Our final clinic day was a little more relaxed. We had 74 patients, mostly from Bijague again. We worked with Dr. Cynthia and nurse Miriam. One particularly fun patient was a man in his 80s who needed some reading glasses. Our friends from North Carolina’s mission team had left several pairs Read More...
At our mission clinic it gets busier every day – today we served 130 people, with 101 being seen before lunch! People from a community about two hours away, named Bojague, had been notified by CEPAD that there was a clinic available this week and took full advantage! Many of the 150 Read More...
At our mission clinic it gets busier every day. Today we served 130 people, with 101 being seen before lunch! People from a community about 2 hours away, named Bojague, had been notified by CEPAD that there was a clinic available this week and took full advantage! Many of the 150 communities Read More...
Clinic was hectic again this morning with 40 more patients coming from Juacuapo Occidental, a village about 1.5 hours away. Our lunch was pushed back again, this time to almost 2 p.m., and the Nicaraguan nurse started doing consults for the doctor, so all the patients could be seen. A huge win Read More...
We began the day with a delicious breakfast and started off toward Jucuapa, a small, remote community about 14 kilometers from Matagalpa. Before we left the city we stopped at the ministry of health (MINSA) to pick up our doctor and two nurses (enfermeras) that would be working with us throughout the Read More...
Saturday night, we arrived in Managua airport at 9:15 pm. Thankfully, all our luggage arrived on time, but there were several bags that needed to be checked by customs agents. Thanks to some paperwork and Joe asserting, “Soy un pastor!” no one was apprehended at the border, and after about 15 minutes Read More...
as I begin this post, we’ve been traveling for 11hrs 25min and we haven’t yet set foot on the first of two 8+hour flights. the Delhi airport is huge. and smoggy. that’s right. the air here is so polluted that it’s smoggy INSIDE the terminal building. otherwise, it’s like most other large, Read More...
Monday morning. departure day. we leave Mungeli in the afternoon to drive 2.5 hours to Raipur. then we take to the air. Raipur–DelhiDelhi–AmsterdamAmsterdam–Minneapolis*Minneapolis–Kansas City including layovers, total travel time, door to door, is about 36 hours (give or take). *ken flies to Atlanta and then on to wherever in Texas he lives. Read More...
last we spoke, we had just seen a tiger (“in Africa?”*). as the sun rises on a Sunday morning in India, and sets on Saturday night in Kansas City, we are up, waiting, as buckets of water warm for another “shower.” We are preparing for our last full day in Mungeli. the Read More...
