Please remember that if you have news to share in the weekly church email newsletter, you must notify Jonathan Bacon or Larry Birkby by Noon on Sunday each week.

Don’t forget to join us this week for the Sunday Morning Mission Road Worship Online and for the Wednesday Evening Prayer Circle Online (see below)!

IN THIS ISSUE:

WORK CREW MAKES GREAT PROGRESS LAST SATURDAY

FALL WORSHIP AVAILABILITY FORM

MISSION ROAD CONGREGATION ONLINE MEETINGS

THIS SUNDAY’S WORSHIP

CONGRATULATIONS

CURRENT CHURCH RE-OPENING STATUS

SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE

NEXT FOOD PANTRY DROP OFF DATE

And More…

WORK CREW MAKES GREAT PROGRESS LAST SATURDAY

The work crew consisting of Steve Hedrick, Ron Millard, Dennis Wood, Robert Sindt, Peter Sindt, Peter Sindt Jr., and Larry Birkby installed most all of the vinyl base on the main floor including about 180 linear feet. They also have about 1-1/2 flights of stair treads installed with several more cut and ready to install. The crew ran out of adhesive and it was about 6pm when they left on Saturday. The new armoire was moved into the Fellowship Hall to hold the tablecloths. So, thank you to everyone who made it a long, but highly successful day. Everyone is invited to stop by for a self-guided tour.

FALL WORSHIP AVAILABILITY FORM

The Fall Worship Availability Form is now available online at https://bit.ly/2CqZEzC

The form is due by August 2, 2020. Please take a moment to fill out and email the form to Caryn, carynpbro or mail this form to: Mission Road Community of Christ, Attention Pam O’Neal, 7842 Mission Road, Prairie Village, KS 66208 or to their home addresses which are in the Congregational Directory.

MISSION ROAD CONGREGATION ONLINE MEETINGS

The Mission Road Congregation will offer several meetings in the coming weeks online.

7 PM Every Wednesday – Prayer Circle.

9 AM Every Sunday – Sunday Morning Mission Road Worship Online. More information on this Sunday’s worship is below.

7 PM August 20, 2020 – the All Good Books group will have an online discussion of “The Keeper of Lost Things” by Ruth Hogan using Zoom.

THIS SUNDAY’S WORSHIP

The Sunday, August 2, 2020, worship theme is “Embrace the Struggle” and will feature a message by John O’Neal. Kirk Barnhard will preside and serve as worship planner. Clint Reine will provide the PowerPoint and host the Zoom meeting assisted by Jonathan Bacon.

You’re invited to join us online starting at 8:45 AM for conversation and fellowship with the worship activities beginning at 9 AM. After the service, we’ll keep the Zoom session open for folks to fellowship. We hope you can join us.

CONGRATULATIONS

Last year, Peggy and Guy Malone’s granddaughter, Carrine Spinks, won the 2019 Kauffman Foundation full-ride scholarship to attend the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Carrine will pursue her doctorate.

This year, the Malone’s great granddaughter, Jolee Spinks, won the 2020 Kauffman Foundation full-ride scholarship to attend UMKC. Jolee will be a freshman this Fall.

CURRENT CHURCH RE-OPENING STATUS

The World Church criteria for reopening congregations requires that COVID-19 cases should be stable or declining for three (3) weeks before face-to-face meetings are resumed. Johnson County, Kansas does not yet meet that criterion. Here are the numbers for the past three weeks:

Cases

July 6-12, 2020 = 762

July 13-19, 2020 = 777

July 20-26, 2020 = 711

Deaths

July 6-12, 2020 = 3

July 13-19, 2020 = 4

July 20-26, 2020 = 1

Hospitalizations

July 6-12, 2020 = 18

July 13-19, 2020 = 7

July 20-26, 2020 = 2

This past week was the first week in Johnson County where the trend was slightly downward. With these trends, the earliest we would re-open the church building for face-to-face meetings would be mid- to late-August 2020, but that assumes we continue to see declining numbers.

SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE

What items does the Center of Hope need? In addition to the regular food and personal hygiene needs, the Center is beginning its school supply drive. These supplies make the difference for many children served by CACH who otherwise might be going to school without the tools they need to fully participate.

Items that are most needed include bottles of school glue (Elmer’s), sets of 24 crayons, pencil crayons, blue pens, red pens, package of twelve #2 pencils, pink erasers, glue sticks, pair of blunt tip (Fiskars) scissors, pencil cases, pocket folders, subject dividers, packages of lined paper, packages of plain (copy) paper, lined wide ruled spiral bound notebooks, 12” rulers, boxes of tissues, broad tip markers, packages of washable felt tip markers, 1” binders, pocket dictionaries, pencil sharpeners, highlighters, bottles of hand sanitizer, and primary composition notebooks. These items cover school supplies needed for Kindergarten through 6th grade students.

When shopping for your children or grandchildren, pick up some extras for the CACH. Anything you can bring between now and the end of August will be a blessing for these school children.

NEXT FOOD PANTRY DROP OFF DATE

Every other week you are encouraged to drop off foodstuffs for the Central Avenue Center of Hope. The next drop-off will be this August 8, 2020, from 10 AM to noon, there will be a large box outside the front entrance of the church for you to leave your donations.

TITHES AND OFFERINGS

Please remember that church expenses continue, even when we’re not meeting in the building. Mary Reichenbach, the Congregation’s Financial Officer has indicated that contributions can be mailed to her house (10223 Briar Dr., Overland Park, KS 66207) or the church (7842 Mission Road, Prairie Village, KS 66208), or you can sign up for eTithing on the World Church website https://www.cofchrist.org/etithing). Any of these options will enable you to continue your regular contributions.

If you use the eTithing site, select the United States link and then scroll down to Mission Road Community of Christ. When you click on that page, there will be an option in the upper right hand corner to ’sign up’ to create your account and enter either your bank account information for direct debit or a credit card to charge your contribution, or ’sign in’ if you have already set up your account. You may also choose a one-time contribution or a continuing contribution. Most of the contribution options on our tithing envelopes are available on the Mission Road eTithing page. If you have additional questions about electronic contributions, please contact Mary.

2020 CALENDAR

October

18 – Midlands MC Conference

November

6–8 – TWIST

TBD Seventy, High Priest, Bishop, Evangelist Gathering

DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WITHOUT EMAIL OR FACEBOOK ACCESS?

If you know someone in the congregation that does not have email and does not use Facebook, please let Jonathan Bacon know. We are trying to be sure everyone in the congregation has access to periodic news updates and information on congregational activities.

CONCERNING PRAYER REQUESTS

Please know that any member of the congregation can post prayer requests or share information about members and events on the Mission Road Members Only Facebook page. You do not need to send the information for approval to anyone. In fact, doing so may slow down the dissemination of your request. Be sure to include the person needing prayers and what situation has occurred (if you wish to share that information). If your post concerns an event or news item, be sure to include the basics in your posting (such as who, what, where and when).

For prayer requests, if you do not have access to Facebook, then please call Paul Bennetts our Congregational Pastoral Care Coordinator.

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE VIA EMAIL

The email address for general church drafts of your Order of Worship and church business (Clint Reine) is mrcoc

The email address for CFO business (Mary Reichenbach) is mrcoccfo

IMPORTANT CONGREGATIONAL LINKS

The Mission Road Congregation hosts the following social media sites:

Congregational (public) website at www.mission-road.org

Facebook Page (public) at https://www.facebook.com/MissionRoad.CoC

Facebook Group (open only to congregational members) at https://www.facebook.com/groups/MissionRoad/

The All Good Books discussion group website at https://allbooksclub.wordpress.com/

Visit and "like" each of these sites to keep up-to-date on congregational news.

CONGREGATIONAL NEWS EMAIL

If you have news items and calendar additions or changes that need to be included in the congregational news email, please contact Larry Birkby. His email address and phone number are both in the Church Directory.