The Kansas-East Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church

Preaching, designing worship for the non-religious

If your church is a restaurant, and what you’re offering is soul food, what rating will your members and visitors give you? Is the service good? “That’s how nominally religious people are looking at it,” said Rev. Adam Hamilton at his second session at the 2009 Kansas East Annual Conference.

Hamilton shares characteristics, principles of leadership

Rev. Adam Hamilton invited the Annual Conference attendees to think about the characteristics of bad and good leaders. “One key difference between a Christian leader and a garden-variety leader is Christian leaders are striving to follow Christ,” Hamilton said. “Part of our task or mission is to figure out how do we model the Christian life for other people.

Lowry says Christians need to respond to gift

Rev. Dr. Eugene Lowry, a former professor of preaching at Saint Paul School of Theology, gave the message for Opening Worship at the 2009 Kansas East Annual Conference. His message was based on John 3:1-9, which tells the story of a man who asked Jesus what he could do to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Annual Conference focuses on leadership

The theme of the 2009 session of Annual Conference was "CaLLed to Lead." Speakers at the conference focused on God's call to clergy and laity alike to lead in their communities.

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Venue change approved for Annual Conference Preaching, designing worship for the non-religious Hamilton shares characteristics, principles of leadership Lowry says Christians need to respond to gift Conference adopts new apportionment formula ‘Bridges’ leadership passes to Connectional Ministries director

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The Kansas East Conference's vision is for people and churches to be spiritually alive and growing. The conference mission is to connect and empower people and churches in living out the Gospel's call to invite, nurture, equip and send forth disciples of Jesus Christ. The Kansas East Conference has 321 churches in the eastern one-third of Kansas.