We are always overjoyed to welcome new members into our church family! Last Sunday at the 8:15 service, Scott and Annette Myers and Chuck Wilson officially joined our church. Take a moment to get to know them and make them feel at home in their new faith community.

Scott and Annette Myers

Chuck Wilson

 

We need your help to find our new Director of Children's Discipleship. Are you connected with an organization, like a parenting club or a PTO, where there might be someone who is looking for a job working with children? Maybe you know someone with a teaching degree who is looking for something outside of the classroom, or a stay-at-home mom or dad who is looking to go back to work. We invite you to send this link to our job posting to anyone who might be interested, share it on social media, and post it on community message boards for preschools, playgroups, and other organizations where you are a member. We trust that God will provide us with the right person, but we need your help to get the word out!

You may now order a shirt with our new church logo! Reliant Apparel, a downtown Topeka business, has designed T-shirts, polo shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, and jackets for our members to wear when we are out in the community. You may visit our Web Store at ReliantApparel.com to view the products and place your order, or visit the T-Shirt table in the Celebration Room on March 12, 19, & 26th. You must place your online order by March 31st. After that day, our web store will be taken down. All orders (web and in person) will be delivered to the church, and will be available for pick up on April 9th.

Many of our members have inquired about ordering new name tags with our logo, so they can wear them to "advertise" our church when they go to events out in the community and on Sunday mornings. Stay tuned for more information!

If you would like to dedicate an Easter lily in honor or in memory of a loved one, fill out the form you will find in your bulletin this Sunday. Lilies are $10 each, and will be placed in the Chapel and Sanctuary on Easter, with the dedications listed in the bulletin insert. After this Sunday, you may pick up a form from the front desk. Order forms must be turned in by Sunday, April 2nd.

 

Last year our members enjoyed running and walking in downtown Topeka's Bridge 2 Bridge 5k. We encourage you to join in the fun and participate in this event with your fellow church members. Our new church T-shirts will be ready in time for the race, which is the morning of April 22nd, so we can represent our community spirit as a church family! As you make plans to participate, send a quick note to Marsha Oliver so we can coordinate a meeting spot to take a "team" photo and run/walk as a group (if you like). Register for the race, circle April 22nd on your calendar, and look forward to a fun morning downtown with your church family!

 

Stephen Ministry has purchased this helpful new book and put it in our church library. It is written in a warm, conversational style that covers the wide range of issues a cancer diagnosis brings. Check it out!

 

Phase 2 is inviting everyone to help spruce up the church grounds for the spring on Saturday, April 1st , 9 a.m.-12 p.m. with lunch following in the Celebration Room. You may email Tiwana or sign up on the Phase 2 board in the Celebration Room if you'd like to help out.

 

Dale Fooshee 

 

The Missions Team food collection focus for the month of March is grocery bags of needed items for Doorstep. You can still pick up a bag with a list of requested items at church. Please return your filled grocery bag by the end of the month. 

Last week, our Men's Group connected with the downtown community by offering a water station for the Irishfest 5k. The many runners and walkers appreciated the cups of water and tissues provided by our church as they passed by our building. 

Irishfest race director, Erinn Renyer, passed on words of thanks from the race participants:

" I can't thank you enough for your enthusiasm and cheery disposition for these runners and walkers... it is groups like yours that help build fellowship in our community."

Friends, lets continue to think of new ways to reach out to our community and make a difference for the good of the city, and for the transformation of the world!

Presenting our third graders with Bibles is a long-standing United Methodist tradition. Last Sunday, our third graders and their parents gathered at the 9:30 service to receive their Bibles from our congregation. They will spend the next six weeks learning how to use this valuable tool and to explore God's word.