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Sunday, October 2 • 10:00 am

Join us for worship at 10:00 am, either in-person or streaming live on Facebook, as we celebrate World Communion Sunday. Every year on the first Sunday in October, Christians around the globe celebrate World Communion Sunday.

Sunday, October 30th • 3-5:00 pm

We are excited to bring back our Trunk or Treat event for our community! Wear your costume and join us for this great FREE family event featuring trunk-or-treating, music, games and cotton candy! Don’t forget to invite your friends and neighbors.

Volunteers are needed to help make this event a success. This is always one of our largest events and many hands and trunks are needed! Please consider bringing a car or two and decorate it for trunk-or-treat. There will be a contest for the best trunks with prizes!

Trunk Sign Up

We will be advertising this event on social media so we do expect a large crowd. Please make sure to bring candy for our trunk-or-treaters. Sign-up sheets will also be available at the Connection Corner on Sunday. Thank you for helping us provide an awesome experience for our neighbors!

Monday, September 26th • 9:45-10:30 am

Each Monday from 9:45-10:30 am, Katie Sampel will host story & play time for kids preschool and younger and their caregivers. This is a great opportunity for little ones to foster a love of reading. Children will have an opportunity to play together and enjoy a fun, interactive story. Caregivers will have time to connect and build relationships with others who are in the same stage of life. Questions? Contact Katie at childrensministry@shawneecommunity.org.

Recently, the region held five listening sessions to discuss five proposed plans about the future of Tall Oaks. You can find more detailed information about those plans at www.kcdisciples.org/todr. At the end of each listening session, attendees ranked the proposed plans in order of preference. The majority of people in attendance voted for plan 3, the pilot. While the least amount of people voted for options 1 and 5, both of which involved selling the camp.

After these listening sessions, the Executive Committee for the Regional Board put forward a recommendation and motion to sell Tall Oaks through a video. That video can be viewed here www.youtube.com/watch?v=APYRJsgiaeQ.

Tall Oaks is owned by the region, meaning every member of Disciples of Christ of Greater KC is an owner of this campground. For over 50 years, children, youth and adults have attended camps, conferences and retreats at Tall Oaks.

There is a final vote on this motion by the entire regional board on September 26th at 6:30pm at Merriam Christian Church (9401 Johnson Drive, Merriam KS 66203). People are encouraged to attend, wear a Tall Oaks Camp shirt, write a letter to share their experience and love for Tall Oaks, and to show support for the camp we all love.

Other ways that you can help are:

• Pledging money to Tall Oaks for the deferred maintenance at https://forms.gle/9cW8XihYxuYdhEzK7

• Registering for camp in 2023 at www.kcdisciplescamps.org/registration. Camps will happen no matter the outcome of the vote (and early registration is a great way to show the board the importance of Tall Oaks). There is also going to be the first ever Adult Camp this summer for anyone who has completed their first year of college or older.

• Spreading the word that the future of  Tall Oaks is uncertain with your fellow Disciples of Christ members and any past or current campers.

• Lastly, there are people committed to do the work (see the third option which received a majority of the votes during the listening sessions) necessary to make Tall Oaks Camp and Conference Center successful.