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Nominations Start Date: 3/11/2010 Start Time: 9:30 AM

Deadline to Register for Lay and Clergy Retirement Seminars Start Date: 3/12/2010

Budget Consultation Start Date: 3/13/2010

Topeka District UMW Spring Meeting Start Date: 3/13/2010

Safe and Sacred Spaces Worker Training - Topeka Start Date: 3/13/2010 Start Time: 1:30 PM Advance registration requested. Contact Klamms at klamm@sunflower.com or call 913-721-2793 or cell: 913-522-2485. Forest Park number is: 785-234-8024...

One Great Hour of Sharing with Offering Start Date: 3/14/2010 The One Great Hour of Sharing offering supports the administrative costs that underwrite the United Methodist Committee on Relief.  Because of the One Great Hour of Sharing offering, donations given to UMCOR go to the specific project and not administrative costs. UMCOR is humanitarian arm of the United Methodist Church, providing basic necessities of life to those who lack them. When a catastrophe occurs, your offerings to One Great of Sharing enables the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) to reach out and ease the pain and suffering by providing humanitarian aid of food,...

Daylight Saving Time Begins at 2:00 AM Start Date: 3/14/2010

Deadline to submit items for Conference Workbook Start Date: 3/15/2010

Extended Cabinet Start Date: 3/16/2010 Start Time: 10:00 AM

CFA Start Date: 3/17/2010 Start Time: 10:00 AM

Spring Break Study Tour to New York City Start Date: 3/17/2010 Sponsored by the Kansas East Conference Council on Youth Ministries.  For youth in grades 9 - 12.  Four day seminar with the United Methodist Church's Board of Global Ministries.  Tour New York City, including the United Nations, the Statue of Liberty, and other sites.  Approximate cost is $1550 per participant.  A $750 deposit is due Dec. 1, 2009, with the remaining fee paid by February 15, 2010. For more information and and application click HERE....

UMM Steering Committee Start Date: 3/18/2010 Meet at Coyote Canyon in Topeka for dinner at 6:00 p.m.  Meeting will begin at 7:15 p.m. at the Kansas East Conference Office....

Lay Speaking Seminar Start Date: 3/19/2010 For more information:  http://www.kansaseast.org/page.asp?PKValue=992 Please Note:  "For Lay Speakers traveling to Topeka for the March Seminiar, two previously listed motels are poor options.  It would be better to look for a chain motel:  Ramada, Choice, Comfort, Holiday Inn, or Best Western.  The revised newsletter version is posted to the Lay Speaking Ministries Newsletter page and lists better options.  Please make travel arrangements accordingly."  - Jada Hodgson, Lay Speaking Registrar....

Leadership Team Start Date: 3/20/2010 Start Time: 10:00 AM

UMM Spring Potato Drop Start Date: 3/20/2010 Start Time: 8:00 AM A truckload of potatoes will be delivered and volunteers will re-bag them to be distributed to local hunger relief ministries.  Needed:  volunteers, persons with pickup trucks, refreshments, and monetary donations.  For more information click HERE...

Conference Board of Pensions Start Date: 3/22/2010 Start Time: 3:00 PM

Retirement Seminar for Laity Church Staff and PPR Chairs Start Date: 3/23/2010 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM:  For those currently participating in UMPIP. 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM:  For PPR chairs and laity church staff not currently participating in UMPIP. Registration Deadline:  March 12, 2010 For more information click HERE....

Retirement Seminar for Laity Church Staff and PPR Chairs Start Date: 3/24/2010 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM:  for those currently participating in UMPIP. 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: for PPR chairs and laity church staff not participating in UMPIP. Registration deadline is March 12, 2010. For more information click HERE....

Hispanic Committee Start Date: 3/25/2010 Start Time: 10:00 AM

Cool Congregations Workshop Start Date: 3/27/2010 Start Time: 9:00 AM The Kansas East Annual Conference and Kansas Interfaith Power and Light are sponsoring three workshops encouraging congregations to take action against climate change. Cool Congregations training participants will learn how to help members of their faith communities calculate their carbon footprints, the amount of global warming pollution emitted by their households, and pledge to implement energy efficiency measures in their homes. An additional workshop is May 1 at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Lenexa. "As people of faith we are called to address climate change,"&nbs...

Palm Sunday Start Date: 3/28/2010

Safe and Sacred Space Worker Training - Leawood Start Date: 3/29/2010 Start Time: 6:00 PM

Preaching Workshop - "Putting the sermon together" Start Date: 3/29/2010 Start Time: 4:00 p.m. This series of six workshops is specifically arranged for licensed local pastors and DSAs, though all are welcome.  The first workshop, "Planning the Year's Preaching", is January 25, 2010 and the last one is scheduled for November 22, 2010.  Each workshop focuses on a specific skill or technique and all are designed to grow your skills and practices in preaching. See the list of workshops offered with their dates on the event flier. Each workshop is $20 or $100 for all six (includes evening meal).  Register by email to the Topeka District office at topdist...

Ogden Friendship House Distribution Center Grand Opening Start Date: 3/31/2010 Location: Ogden Friendship House Distribution Center The Ogden Friendship House United Methodist Church ministry located at 203 Riley Boulevard, has been meeting the needs of many in surrounding communities for almost twenty-six years.  The ministry is supported by sister churches in Manhattan, the Kansas East Conference and other churches under the umbrella of the UMC.  It has been a vision of many for several years to have a new Distribution Center.  We are grateful and proud to announce on March 31st  at 10:00 a.m., there will be a Grand Opening of the new distribution center located at 226 Riley Boulevard In Ogden.  ...

Good Friday - KEC Office Closed Start Date: 4/2/2010

Easter Start Date: 4/4/2010

Nebraska-Kansas Transition Team Start Date: 4/6/2010 Location: Chapel Hill UMC

Ichabod-Hornet Campus Ministry Challenge Start Date: 4/9/2010 Start Time: 6:30 PM Location: Kansas State Historical Museum Join the campus ministries from Washburn University and Emporia State University for a meal and special events.  Come early to tour the museum from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.  This event is designed to highlight what is happening at each campus ministry program, to raise much needed program and special projects funds, and to provide an opportunity for fans to gather to support their schools. For more information and a two page bulletin insert click HERE. Search for the Ichabod-Hornet Challenge on Facebook....

Area UMM Spiritual Rally Start Date: 4/10/2010

Flint Hills District UMW Spring Meeting Start Date: 4/10/2010