Due to potentially damaging weather this afternoon and evening, the children’s musical and pre-show events in the Leawood Sanctuary have been cancelled and will be rescheduled.
Scheduled programming has resumed for Thursday, February 13 at all Resurrection locations.
A Resurrection Downtown gathering explored how faith shapes our response to immigration through compassion, justice, and hospitality, inviting participants to listen, learn, and take meaningful steps forward.
They packed 500 lunches in a hotel hallway, sorted clothes for women experiencing homelessness, and planted garden beds in Omaha. By the end of two days, the kids had new best friends and the adults had worshipped together. That’s what a Resurrection family mission trip looks like.
Before Katy Nall had the job, she had the vision — a garden on church land that would feed neighbors and bring generations of volunteers together. That dream nearly fell apart before it started. Four years later the Giving Garden has donated over ten tons of produce.
Eunice Kennedy left school in 10th grade in Malawi’s Chikwawa District, selling cloth in markets just to help her family survive. A vocational program through Resurrection’s global missions partnerships gave her skills, income, and a vision bigger than herself. Her story doesn’t end with her.
At 20, Evason Byson was farming fields in Malawi just to help his family survive. Then a vocational program — supported through Resurrection’s global missions partnerships — handed him a sewing machine. His story is proof that opportunity, not circumstance, writes the final chapter.
When Tetyana fled her village under shelling in Ukraine, she lost nearly everything. When she finally came home, a medical team supported by Resurrection’s global missions partnership was there waiting. Her story is one of 1,389 patients who received free care between February and May 2024.
Dr. Cornel West says justice is what love looks like in public. Rev. Cheryl Jefferson Bell believes he’s right — and she’s calling Resurrection’s justice ministry partners and congregation to prove it together. On April 28, over 2,000 people will gather at Resurrection Leawood to do exactly that.
Rev. Cheryl Jefferson Bell opens with a prayer the violence would stop — then grounds her response not in politics, but in scripture. Every person carries the image of God. And because of that, she says, we don’t just belong to God. We belong to each other.
Rev. Cheryl Jefferson Bell will be the first to admit that loving her neighbor is something she still struggles with. Then she met a typewriter poet named Nika Renee — and walked away with a poem that’s been a mirror and a challenge ever since.
