Local
Summer Makeover 2026: Volunteers Transform The Hub Through a Week of Service
What happens when hundreds of volunteers show up with tools, paintbrushes, and servant hearts? The Hub gets a transformation — and so does our community.
Missions @ Resurrection
Join us in transforming Kansas City through local missions and help create a community where every child and family can flourish.
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Local Missions Blog
Local
“Remember Me?”: Celebrating Foster Care Graduates and Lasting Connections
“Remember me? I was at Bright Futures!” Those words captured the heart of a Pathways graduation celebration honoring 22 young adults aging out of foster care. The day was a reminder that while resources and services matter, lasting transformation happens through relationships, encouragement, and people who continue showing up long after an event ends.
Local
60,000 Backpacks and a Prayer
More than 60 volunteers came together at Resurrection Leawood to assemble the final 1,900 Backpacks for Hunger bags of the school year. In total, Resurrection provided more than 60,000 bags to Kansas City children, helping meet weekend food needs while sharing God’s love in a tangible way.
Global Missions Blog
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The Real Dirt on Growth
In Malawi, a farmer kneels in the dirt, turning what was once waste into new life. It’s unexpected. It’s messy. And it’s changing everything. Through global missions, communities are discovering a better way to grow food—and hope—in places where both once felt out of reach.
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Rising Above in Malawi: Eunice Kennedy’s Story of Transformation
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.
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Empowering Change: Evason’s Journey from the Fields to the Sewing Machine
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.
Justice Blog
Justice
Every Day. Not Just on Sundays
ustice work is hard. Some days it feels lonely. But Rev. Cheryl Jefferson Bell holds onto a promise Jesus made right after the great commission — one she believes is for every person doing the work of justice today. It hasn’t expired. It has no exceptions.
Justice
What Does Justice Look Like to You?
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.
Justice
Each of Us Belongs at God’s Table
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.
