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Diocesan News

Living God’s Future Now: A 2024 Tocher Event

The Diocese of Kansas is pleased to welcome the Rev. Dr. Sam Wells for the 2024 Tocher Lecture on May 15-16 at St. Michael and All Angels, Mission. The Lecture will truly be an event with the St. Martin’s Voices choral ensemble joining from Vicar Sam’s parish, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London under the leadership of Dr.

St. Thomas, Overland Park hosts interfaith service

For the past eight years St. Thomas the Apostle in Overland Park has had small groups of Christians, Muslims, and Jews who come together regularly to learn from one another. The goal of these Faith Clubs has been to help deepen one’s faith while learning about the other Abrahamic faiths and making friends along the way. When the

Kansas to Kenya fundraiser tickets now available

Kansas to Kenya has two planned fundraising events this Spring to raise funds for the Medical Team and Community Team trips in June. Medical Team Fundraiser, Saturday, April 20, 2024, 5:30-8:30 pm @ St Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Lawrence Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online.  Community Team Fundraiser, Saturday, May 4, 2024, 6-9 pm @ St. Thomas the

Welcome to the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas

The 44 churches of the diocese are in small towns and big cities across the eastern part of the state. The diocese extends as far west as Abilene and Wichita and includes the cities of Topeka, Lawrence, Manhattan, and the entire Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side of the state line.

Our churches offer a warm welcome to everyone with opportunities for worship, fellowship and education.

Minsters

The Kansas Minster Project proposes a collaborative way of organizing ourselves for God’s mission in the Diocese of Kansas in the 21st century — it is a vision of our “branching pattern” for the Jesus Movement, a way of structuring to bear the Way of Love with new vigor.

Each of the diocese’s 11 minsters is a group of churches designed for mutual support and sharing of resources, so they can reach out to serve their neighborhoods and communities. They also ensure that every congregation is sacramentally cared for by the priests and deacons within each minster.

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Task Forces

Seven task forces currently lead the diocese’s efforts to support action within our congregations and outwardly toward those in our neighborhoods, communities and beyond.

The seven task forces are Care of Creation; Children’s Ministries; Evangelism; Global Partnerships; Liturgy, Music and the Arts; Outreach; and Justice and Racial Reconciliation.

Invited to Abundant Life

“I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” ~John 10:10b

We invite parishes, minsters, and new expression communities in our diocese to engage in reflection about your identity and your unique calling. This guide offers a process of discernment for you to ask timely and critical questions about the vocation and future of your parish, minster, or new expression community. We believe this resource can help us discover a vibrant future of ministry together as the Body of Christ in the Diocese of Kansas.

164th Diocesan Convention

The 164th Diocesan Convention met October 20-21 at Grace Cathedral, Topeka. A full summary of convention business is available here or in this PDF.

New representatives were elected to the Council of Trustees and the Disciplinary Board. One canonical amendment was approved and the first reading of a constitutional amendment was approved. Five people were recognized for their ministries and nine Alleluia Grants were awarded. Additionally, the strategic plan for the diocese was introduced and discussed.

The 165th Diocesan Convention is tentatively scheduled for October 18-19, 2024, at the Wichita Airport DoubleTree Hotel.

Spiritual Life

In the broadest sense to be spiritual is to choose to use the energy and gifts you have been given to nurture values, virtues, and intentions. Therefore, to be spiritual is to understand you need to grow. Spirituality can be any number of practices that foster growth into wholeness inside and out.

As Episcopalians we are spiritual and religious. Our Spiritual practices are grounded in the deep love of God in fellowship with Christ, and sustained in the Spirit.

The Rev. Lisa Senuta is the Canon for Spiritual Life and Clergy Care overseeing offerings at the diocese and forming Spiritual Community.

Youth, Young Adult and Campus Ministry

The mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas Youth, Young Adult and Campus Ministry is to gather, equip, and send disciples of Jesus Christ to witness to God’s reconciling love.

We strive to accomplish this mission by providing quality programs and events that are biblically based for the entire diocese. Events and programs are designed for young people to experience opportunities in evangelism, spiritual formation, Christian leadership, mission, fellowship, Scripture, discernment and the Episcopal Church.

Bethany House and Garden

Bethany House and Garden is an innovative ministry of the diocese, centered in the historic building that has served over time as a laundry for a girl’s school, a private home, the bishop’s residence and the diocesan offices.

It offers garden space for prayer and meditation, spiritual direction, pastoral care and outdoor worship. Through community listening and engagement, it seeks to be a part of positive change. It also is in the planning stage of imagining what else it might be: demonstration gardens, prairie restoration or a patchwork quilt of ideas?

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