Great Plains Annual Conference

Café Quetzal is celebrating its first anniversary as a coffee shop ministry and is upbeat about its prospects as a business, community center and place to share the Christian faith. Photo by David Burke, courtesy of Great Plains Conference.

Café Quetzal connects with coffee, Christ

Café Quetzal is celebrating its first anniversary as a coffee shop ministry and while they have high quality coffee, they also have baristas who are ready, willing and able to counsel customers or talk about Christianity.

Worship

Churches urged to relaunch, not just reopen

The spirit of innovation seen in the COVID-19 pandemic needs to continue and deepen, church leadership experts say.

Mission and Ministry

Schoolchildren drink from a borehole at Kalumba Primary School in Mangochi, Malawi, in September 2020. The borehole was drilled by the Malawi government. In response to water scarcity in this east African country, United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kan., has helped fund the drilling of more than 80 boreholes since September. Photo by Francis Nkhoma, UM News.

Church helps drill more than 80 boreholes in Malawi

Since 2010, a partnership between Kansas and Malawi United Methodists spans over 9,000 miles and provides life-changing ministries.

Mission and Ministry

A Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley Shallow Water Response Team rescues nine people and one dog Sept. 16, 2020, near Navarre Beach, Fla., after they were stranded by Hurricane Sally. U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Sector Ohio Valley Shallow Water Response Team.

Churches pick up after Sally

Hurricane brought strong winds, torrential rain to west Florida and south Alabama.

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