Harvest

The diocese returns to a new normal throughout the season of Lent and into Easter.

The 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Day March and Celebration in Atchison are only one part of the most recent chapter of the story of Dr. King’s legacy and impact on our city and her faith communities.

In the Fall of 2021, a small group of people at St. Thomas felt called to respond to the flood of Afghan people that evacuated to the United States. The Kansas City metro area received more than 3000 people as part of this evacuation.

Responding to Bishop Cathleen’s call to be better stewards of creation, St. Thomas will install a full array of solar panels this summer.

Now in its third year, The Minster Project, originally proposed by Bishop Bascom at the 160th Diocesan Convention in October 2019, is up for a check-in. After the 162nd Diocesan Convention in October 2021, the Council of Trustees empowered a working group to lead some intentional listening to minster team participants and members of parish leadership.

When I said “yes” to Bishop Cathleen to return to the diocese of Kansas, it was because the position she wanted me to embody was in part to support clergy. It is fixed in the title, Canon for Spiritual Life and Clergy Care. As she proposed the position I thought, “Wow, what a gift for the clergy to have someone extra on staff to cheer, support, encourage, listen, and care for them.” 

People from around the diocese gathered on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, for the first in-person Chrism Mass at Grace Cathedral since April 16, 2019. The service has historically also included an opportunity for clergy to renew their ordination vows and Episcopalians welcomed their clergy siblings from the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Breakthrough Episcopal Social Services has appointed The Rev. Andy Houltberg to serve as its new CEO. He succeeds Dr. Barbara Andres, who served the Wichita community for 35 years, and he began his new role on March 14, 2022.