Western Plains District

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  • Gathering Celebration Banquet

    Gathering Celebration Banquet

    YOU ARE INVITED!

    The Gathering Celebration Team would like to invite you to a Celebration Banquet at the Cedars on July 23rd beginning at 5:30 pm. This banquet is to recognize those that worked so hard to envision transformation in Western Plains, as well as making the Gathering an event that everyone could attend and get to know our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.

    This event is $11.00 per plate and the Cedars will serve us Roast Beef, mashed potatoes, a vegetable, and a dessert.
    *If you have any special dietary needs, please let us know so we can make other arrangements.

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  • Annual Conference

    Annual Conference

    Annual Conference will be completely online this year!
    June 30-July 4

    Please click here for Registration

     

  • NOAC

    September 4-8, 2023
    Lake Junaluska, NC 

    “God is doing a new thing!”

    Isaiah 43:19
    “See, I am doing a new thing!
        Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
    I am making a way in the wilderness
        and streams in the wasteland.” (NIV)

    Theme Statement

    A lot has happened in the world since we last gathered at Lake Junaluska for NOAC in 2019, We never could have imagined that a pandemic would keep us apart for so long…. In 2021 we were forced to take NOAC online and participate in a virtual conference. We were pleasantly surprised to find that even on our computer screens we could develop a sense of community. During the past three years we have had to make many changes in our home congregations and in our denomination as we continued to minister to one another through a time of uncertainty.

    So, now what? Perhaps we are feeling some apprehension and fear. How do we move forward into an unknown future when we aren’t quite sure where we are heading? We find a word of hope from God through the prophet, Isaiah. ‘I am going to do something brand new!’

    Click Here for more information on NOAC 2023

  • Advent Blessings from the District Office

    Advent Blessings from the District Office

    Please click on the link below!

    Advent Blessings

  • Regional Youth Conference

    Regional Youth Conference

    Regional Youth Conference (RYC) will once again be held on the campus of McPherson College Feb. 22-24!

    Speakers/Music for RYC 2019

    Registration for youth is $40 before Feb. 14, after that the rate will go up to $50.

    Please contact NEW Coordinator for Spiritual Life at McPherson College, Asia Frye, at fryea@mcpherson.edu

    Click Here for more detail and online registration!

     

  • Christmas Greetings from the District Office!

    Christmas Greetings from the District Office!

    Please click the link for Seasons Greetings from the District Office staff

     

     

     

  • National Older Adult Conference (NOAC)

    National Older Adult Conference (NOAC)

    Planners of the 2019 Church of the Brethren National Older Adult Conference (NOAC) have unveiled the logo for the event, highlighting the conference theme, “Reaching … across generations, beyond differences, through conflict … into joy,” based on Romans 15:7.
    The flowing blue and green logo was designed by Brethren graphic artist Debbie Noffsinger.

    The conference will take place Sept. 2-6, 2019, at the Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center near Waynesville, N.C.
    The NOAC web page, www.brethren.org/NOAC, will go live with 2019 information in January.

    Registration opens in April.

  • Advent Readings

    Advent Readings

    Springs of Living Water has created this Advent scripture reading –
    Blessings through your journey of the coming of Christ! 

    Advent Readings for 2018-2019

  • Compelling Vision Conversations

    Compelling Vision Conversations

    Discerning a Compelling Vision

    Our denomination is in the process of “discerning a Compelling Vision for our life together as a denomination”.  This discernment process began at Annual Conference 2018, will continue throughout the course of this year, and then pick back up again at Annual Conference 2019. (more…)

  • The Parish Paper

    March 2018 edition of The Parish Paper: 
    PP — 3 — 2018 Finding Significance as a Small Church

     

    April 2018 edition of The Parish Paper:  PP — 4 — 2018 Church Energy Use