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.
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.
At Mill Creek Park, one simple decision changed everything: stepping around the table and sitting down to share a meal. This reflection explores how moving from “doing for” to “being with” can transform the way we serve our neighbors.
Volunteers of all ages gathered at The Giving Garden Opening Day to plant more than 1,000 tomato plants that will help provide fresh produce for Kansas City neighbors experiencing food insecurity.
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.
In rural Uganda, the UCSS Hub in Kampala-Kigo-Birongo is more than a building. It’s a permanent home for discipleship, counseling, and vocational training — already touching 850,000 lives a year. This is what Resurrection’s global missions partnership in Uganda is building toward
In Uzhhorod, Ukraine, young people are carrying the weight of three years of war — anxiety, isolation, and an uncertain future. A new Youth Center, supported through Resurrection’s global missions funding, is being built to be exactly what they need: a place to heal and belong.
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.
Rev. Cheryl Jefferson Bell spent Martin Luther King Jr. weekend at a celebration where the preacher declared we are in the second civil rights movement. She believes he’s right. And she’s calling Resurrection’s justice ministry — and you — to respond with intention in 2026.
