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News Congregaitonal Meetings regarding the Vision and Future of Heartland Fellowship, our next Saturday meeting: Nov. 4, 8:30 a.m. Everyone: members and non-members alike are encouraged to come. Prayer Group will meet October 28, 8:00 a.m. in the chapel.
Connections Please be in prayer about the future of Connections. We are especially praying for God to raise up someone to take leadership in it. October 29, Out to Lunch: Everyone is invited to go to T-Rex after worship. Pastor Roberta will be attending Drive Church Leadership Conference in Atlanta Nov. 5-8. Nov. 10-12, three women from Heartland will be attending Great Plains Conference Women's Retreat in Hesston, KS. |
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Denomination Info
FREE METHODIST CHURCH OF NORTH AMERICA
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Welcome to Heartland FellowshipWe are a Free Methodist congregation meeting in the chapel of Presbyterian Manor, Kansas City, KS.
Every Sunday at 9:30 a.m., there is Sunday School for all ages. At 10:30 a.m., Worship.
Rev. Roberta Mosier-Peterson, Pastor
(913)579-1812
Robert Nowlin, Music Ministry Intern
(816) 678-3893
web site: www.singertenor.net
Compassionate
Heartland Fellowship is a congregation of compassion. We put our hands, feet, and hearts into loving others. Compassionate service is an essential ingredient of our church.
We welcome and care for the residents of the Presbyterian Manor. They join us for worship services and other activities. We cherish relationships. We are committed
to welcoming and caring for you as God does.
Casual
Heartland Fellowship is a congregation that accepts people as they are. Our casual atmosphere in worship welcomes young and not so young, T-shirt wearers
and tie wearers, the expressive and the demure, the experienced Christian and the inquisitive seeker.
Creative
Heartland Fellowship is creating a place for you. We want to give you a place to explore the Christian faith. We want to hear your questions and concerns. We are offering
new Bible Studies, small groups, and a variety of activities for teens and kids. We want to help nurture positive relationships between many generations.
All of this with the intent that you will come to know the love of God.
The mission of Heartland Fellowship is to see people accept Jesus Christ as both Savior and Lord and in doing so strive to serve Him and the communtiy through their time, their gifts, and their possessions.
In the last few months, we have been focused on our mission here in our community as well as our work around the world. We had a great visit with Pete and Jan Mills who have been serving God as missionaries to the Philippines. Gerald Baraza , who is a missionary from Kenya to Tanzania, Africa has also gotten our attention. As I have gotten to know Brother Gerald Baraza via e-mail, I have discovered how delightful he is and what amazing work God is doing there in Mwanza and in the lives of our brothers and sisters there. He is principle of of a training facility for church leaders in Mwanza. Check out Pastor Dick's blog (http://layhillchurch.blogspot.com). He is a Free Methodist pastor in the Washington D.C. area that visited there last November. The blog includes a lot of pictures and gives exciting details about a new church start among the Maasai, a previously violent culture in Mwanza. This new church is reaching the Maasai people and winning many people to Christ and away from a life of violence. Also, Gerald Baraza also has a blog that contains some pretty eye-opening statistics about Africa.
During my conversations with Brother Baraza, I relayed to him that Heartland Fellowship had been praying for him and his ministry in Tanzania. This fall, Baraza is attending Calvin Seminary in Michigan. This means that he could use a lot of prayer being away from his family and having a lot of difficult material to study.
Heartland Fellowship is dedicated to giving kids and teens a time and place they can connect with one another and with their Heartland Fellowship family. In the past, at Connections, we have done things such as watched movies, played video games, enjoyed our own water park on the hilly Manor lawn, played Bingo, etc.... Most recently, we did SCUBA (a re-worked VBS curriculum) every Wednesday for 5 weeks. The purpose of Connections is: To provide a fun atmosphere where kids and teens can build strong relationships with one another and open connections to others in the community.
Hopefully, we will be able to resume Connections in the future. Please pray that God would raise up leadership in order that this may be possible
Intentional Community
In as simple terms as possible, there are 3 or more young men in our congregation who are considering sharing a house as a means to grow in thier own spiritual lives and be in mission to our community. They are seeking this sort of community as more than just a roommate situation. They are wanting to be intentionally engaged with one another in their spiritual journeys and in mission to their neighborhood. A few similar communities already exist here in Kansas City and among them are the Kingdom House, affiliated with Trinity Church of the Nazarene on Rainbow Blvd. In the original documents of the Kingdom House, it states: "intentional community is not just a place to live. It is not a sheltered Christian getto. It is instead a place where committed believers put aside their selfish desires and submit to serving each other and their surrounding neighborhood. You must be emphatically clear about the commitments to which they (participants) are agreeing.....a particular commitment of time to the community, worshipping in the local parish church affiliated with the community, participation in house disciplines (meetings, retreats, prayer, meals, etc), pursuing Christian discipleship, meeting financial commitments to the house and local church, sharing house duties."
Radical in one sense....in terms of what our world says the norm is, yet, not so radical when you consider the mission of our church and how Heartland has always understood itself. We have a history of mission in our community. We have a heritage that has as one of it's founding principles working among the poor and oppressed. Even Jesus himself was about living in community while being sent out and sending others out in mission to those who were in need of God. In the words of Jean Vanier, the founder of L'Arch, a network of homes dedicated to caring for those with mental and physical disabilities, says: "When Jesus sent his disciples out on mission, he told them to be poor, to take nothing with them. And he told them to do things that were impossible for them to do all by themselves. So it is for all missions. Communities and their members are called to be poor and to do impossible things, such as to build community and to bring healing, reconciliation, forgiveness and wholeness to people. Mission is to bring the life of God to others, and this can only be done if communities and people are poor and humble, letting the life of God flow through them."
PLEASE be praying for our intentional community in progress. Please pray that these three men will together learn from one another and be a witness of God's love to their neighborhood. There is a needs list with things such as furniture and household items, contact Robert via e-mail if you have things you might like to donate. Also, be praying for Robert as he builds relationships with his Spanish speaking neighbors as he aims at hosting an "English" class at the house.
In the last few weeks, there have been discussions about "intentional community." There are many ways to build community and be about missions living in everyday life. Among these is living in an "intentional community."
