youth@wppc Easter Lily Orders

Upcoming events!

Youth@wppc will meet March 19 and 26 and April 9 and 23 in Fellowship Hall from 6-7:30pm. Children of all ages join us in Fellowship Hall, for dinner, prayer, a Bible lesson, games and fellow-ship. Bring your friends! Questions? Call Candis Lochmann @ 816-213-6750. Below are photos from youth@wppc, making new candles, mailing cards to our homebound members and making cookies. Fun times!

If you would like to help us decorate the Sanctuary for Easter Sunday, please fill out the form and leave it in the envelope on the

church office door. Orders are due by Sunday, April 2 they are 12.00 per lily.

After the Easter service please take your lily home to enjoy or share with a friend.

SAVE YOUR STUFF! The church is planning a church wide

rummage sale the first weekend in June. Plan is to take donations

in the week before! Details to follow.

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Sunday Worship, 10:30am Christian Education, 9:30am

Office Hours M-Thurs

9:00am -1:00pm 816.361.2200

Email: office@wppresbyterian.org

Church Staff Interim Pastor, Victor Force

Office Administrator, Tina Hill

Choir Director, Joseph Hill

Organist, Dr. Arthur Rinehart

Bookkeeper, Chuck Kneyse

Custodian, Scott Curry

Preschool Directors,

Kim Manford Leslie Bullington

Officers

Elders Worship: Carmen Rinehart

Mission and Stewardship:

Bob Liepsner

Personnel & Administration: Candis Lochmann

Adult Discipleship: James Lusk

Youth Discipleship: Sean Stoy

Operations: Steve Guthrie

Clerk of Session: Karen Wiederaenders

Deacons

Warren Bell, Jim Kurtz, Shirley Lytle, Emily Lantz

Susan Stewart & Pat Wiederaenders

Trustees Ed Rucker

Jean Hunter Don Barta

Tom Stewart-Treasurer

Glorify God Grow Disciples Go Serve March/April 2017

Reflections from Pastor Victor

Save The Dates Palm Sunday-April 9 Maundy Thursday-April 13,6:30pm Easter Sunday-April 16

The Journey of Lent The lectionary is divided into a three year cycle. We are in Year A where the gospel lessons will come mostly from Matthew with a little bit of John scattered throughout the year. Year B is mostly Mark with a little of John scattered and Year C is mostly Luke with a little bit of John. During the next few weeks the lectionary will reintroduce us to characters from the Bible to walk with us on our Lenten journey. On March 12th,, the second Sunday of Lent, we will read about Nicodemus, Abram and Sari. The third Sunday of Lent has us drinking water with Jesus and the bad girl, Woman at the well. While the former slaves (nation of Israel) are on their journey to the promise land and run out of water. They struggle to see themselves as a free people. David is anointed King and we meet a man born blind on the fourth Sunday of Lent. Finally, Ezekiel and God discuss dry bones and we bear witness to the death and resurrection of Lazarus. As you cross these characters from scripture, I invite you to ask, “How am I similar and how am I different from these people? How does their story intersect with mine? Finally I invited you to pray this prayer during Lent: “Lord where would you have me go? What would you have me do? What would you have me say? And to whom. The special bulletins have arrived, the Palms have been ordered and the Easter lily list is up. The journey has begun, open your eyes, and pay attention to this great, wonderful and dreadful journey. Bliss Always, Victor

Adult Christian Education Prayers and Concerns

Warren Bell Pat Wiederaenders Kathy Montgomery

Phyllis Bartlett Dale and Martha Lundhigh

Sheldon Crossette, Lynne Crossette’s Father-in-law Our Missionaries: The Hendry’s, Karla Koll, Samaritans Purse, KC Rescue Mission and

City Union Rescue Mission. For Peace and Unity in our Country and World

For anyone who may be suffering in silence

In Loving Memory of Milton C. Clarke

January 31, 1929 - February 24, 2017

The Cornerstone Bible Study that meets on

Sunday mornings at 9:25 in the Holy Grounds

Room will begin a new study of the book of

PROVERBS on March 19th. Please consider joining

Us for this study authored by Dr. Warren Wiersbe,

a well-known Bible teacher. Life is about choices.

How should we lead our families? How should we

manage our finances? How should we handle

relationships? God's Word provides the answers.

The book of PROVERBS contains the greatest

collection of wisdom ever recorded, written by

some of t he wisest men who ever lived. This study

takes a fresh look at PROVERBS and offers

relevant insights for making sound choices in

every area of life. Please see Mike Montgomery to

order a participants study guide, cost ($10), for use

during the ten week study. Please Place your order

by March 7th.A Small Group study is a very valuable

part of your journey of faith. All are welcome!

One Great Hour of Sharing One Great Hour of Sharing will be taken on Easter

Sunday. A gift to One Great Hour of Sharing enables the church to share God’s love with our neighbors-

in-need around the world by providing relief to those affected by natural disasters, provide food to the hungry, and helping to empower the poor

and oppressed.

Easter is coming and so is our Annual Easter Egg Hunt! It will be on the east lawn shortly after

worship Sunday, April 16th. The bunny is looking for helpers. If you took home eggs to fill, remember

to return them before Easter Sunday. Questions? Contact Lynne Crossette at

913.710.0330

Hunger never goes away! Let’s fill the barrels for part of our Lenten giving.

February 2017 Session Notes

Happy Birthday!

Martha Nell Guisinger-March 1

Candis Lochmann-March 4 Mary Patterson-March 5

Jean Sprinkle-March 6 Kay Bode-March 8

Diana Justus-March 10 Kerry Montgomery-March 10

Veda Stoy-March 12 Scott Curry-March 18 Tyler Boles-March 20

Milana Florkowski-March 22 Nancy Buzzell-March 30 Bryce Lochmann-April 1

Warren Bell-April 2 Mary Rucker-April 3 Kenzie Hite-April 3

Tom Stewart-April 16 Jean Horst-April 20 Ed Rucker-April 20

Eric Happell-April 24 Heather Mleynek-April 24

Preschool News

Spring has sprung here at Preschool! The weather has been so beautiful and has allowed us to get outside and enjoy the playground. On March 23rd the Drum Safari will be visiting the preschool to perform a musical drum program for our children. We will enjoy some fellowship at Culver's Night on March 28th. Please join us! On April 5th and 6th we will have our annual Dad's and Donuts event. Children love spending the morning with their dad's and having donuts for breakfast. The children will have Easter Chapel on April 11/12 and we do not have school on April 13th in of recognition Holy Thursday. On April 12th, we would love the Church members to join us for a special tour of our school and enjoy our Easter Chapel with the children. A special invitation will be deliv-ered to you in the coming weeks. You can RSVP for the special lunch that will follow. On April 25th we will celebrate the Preschool's 50th year with a special school wide lunch and after school cake reception. More information will follow. May 3/4 we will celebrate our moms with a special Moms and Muffins morning. Our year end chapel services will be held April 9/10, and our last day of school will be May 18th. Phew.... We have a busy couple of months ahead of us!!Thank you for your continued prayers for our children and their families, our staff, and school as a whole. We look forward to seeing you on April 12th! Kim and Leslie

Acting clerk, Candis Lochmann, reported that the following officers were installed at worship on February 5, 2017: Candis Lochmann for personnel elder, Carmen Rinehart for worship elder and Ed Rucker for trustee. The treasurer’s report showed that the church ended 2016 in good shape financially. Our congre-gation, though small, is giving generously. The budget for 2017 will be bare bones with modest salary increases for our employees. We received a check from our insurer, Guide One, to cover the cost of the pipe breaking in the educa-tion wing on December 20. Our aging plumbing system is most likely going to continue breaking and should be entirely replaced. The meeting was closed with prayer at 8:15 pm.