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.
Most of us will smile at a stranger’s baby or stop to pet a dog. But we walk past the person on the sidewalk. A Resurrection local missions leader says you already have everything you need to make a difference — and it costs nothing.
Every day in Kansas City, churches set up tables and serve meals to neighbors experiencing homelessness. It looks like community. But one Resurrection local missions staff member noticed something about that table — and what she admitted to herself changed how she thinks about serving entirely.
Resurrection’s local missions team fights hunger every day through a food pantry, Food Mobile, and more. But none of it happens without people willing to show up. Meet John — a Resurrection Brookside volunteer whose reason for serving might surprise you.
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 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.
As a child, Rev. Cheryl Jefferson Bell memorized the Preamble to the Constitution with pride — not yet understanding it wasn’t written with her in mind. Decades later, she’s still holding onto hope. And she’s calling the church to do the hard, holy work of justice.
