A listing of online services from the churches around the diocese can be found here.
Holy Week at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral
March 29
Evening Prayer. 7 p.m. Online. Click here to join live
March 30
Renewal of Ordination and Baptismal Vows. 10 a.m. This is a joint service with the dioceses of Missouri, Kansas, West Kansas, and the ELCA Central States Synod. Online. Click here to join live
Evening Prayer. 7 p.m. Online. Click here to join live
March 31
Evening Prayer. 7 p.m. Online. Click here to join live
April 1
Maundy Thursday Eucharist with Stripping of the Altar. 7 p.m. Online. Click here to join live
April 2
Good Friday Liturgy. 12 p.m. Online. Click here to join live
April 3
Holy Saturday Liturgy. 9 a.m. Online. Click here to join live
Easter Vigil. 7 p.m. Online. Click here to join live
April 4
The Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ – Easter Sunday Holy Eucharist. 10:15 a.m. Online. Click here to join live
Youth events
April 10 & 11
Junior High Digital Retreat. More details to follow…
April 17
Outdoor Movie Night. Church of the Good Shepherd, Kansas City. Time TBD.
May 1
Outdoor Movie Night. St. James, Springfield. Time TBD.
Church events
April 2
The Diocese of West Missouri office will be closed for Good Friday.
April 17
Area Confirmation (Southern Deanery). Trinity, Lebanon. 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Rehearsal at 1 p.m.)
April 20
Hope & Faith in a time of discouragement – a conversation about the challenges of 2020 and moving towards recovery and hope. Join us as we gather to hear insights from both lay and clergy on maintaining and building faith and hope in a time when our lives have been turned upside down. Online. 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Further details and registration link coming soon…
April 24
Area Confirmation (Northwest-Metro/Central Deaneries). St. Andrew’s, Kansas City. 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Rehearsal at 1 p.m.)
External events
March 3-5, 2021
2021 CEEP Network’s Digital Annual Conference. From COVID-19 to economic anxiety to the racial reckoning taking place across our Church, in our nation and around the world. CEEP Network is excited to announce we will gather on-line to bear witness together at the 2021 Annual Conference. Online. Click here for more information and to register.
April 18-May 23, Sundays
Project Resource: Spring 2021 Stewardship Training. Project Resource has proven success in being an effective and enduring set of practices for changing the culture of giving in congregations. Online. Training takes place on 6 consecutive Sundays, (begins two weeks after Easter) 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Click here for more information and to register.
Education and training
February 23 – March 25 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Beloved Community of Care and Love Book Study Club: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, by Emmanuel Acho.Online. Tuesday’s 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. and Thursday’s 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. The deadline to sign-up is February 20.
March 13-14
Bishop Kemper School for Ministry March 2021 course:Congregational Leadership, Contemporary Catechumenate, Sacramental Theology and Social Ministry II. Online. Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Sunday 8:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Click here to register.
April 10-11
Bishop Kemper School for Ministry April 2021 course: Anglican Ethics, Christian History Survey (D), Preaching I, and Tasks of Theology. Online. Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Sunday 8:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Click here to register.
April 17 – May 22 on Saturdays
Diversity Workshop: Undoing Racism. This training fulfills the intent of several General Convention resolutions, which call for leaders at all levels of The Episcopal Church to receive training on the Church’s teaching about racial diversity and other forms of diversity present within the human family. Online. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Click here to register.
2nd Thursday Clergy Conversation. Online. 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. If you have not received the login credentials for this meeting, please contact your Dean.
Meetings
In order to ensure the recommended physical distancing, we are holding diocesan meetings online wherever practicable.
March 10
Diversity and Reconciliation Commission. Online. 4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
