Western Plains District

Register for District Conference!

Summer is coming! (hopefully!) And District Conference will be here before we know it. Download the conference registration form and children’s activities/childcare registration form. Please pass these on to anyone who might like to attend conference. All are welcome!

Please also note several changes in registration and the conference schedule:

• A trial registration subsidy has been added this year. An information sheet has been added to the registration information, so please read that carefully before filling out the registration form.
• Condensed schedule. Please note that the district conference schedule has been slightly condensed this year. The Pre-conference Workshop, usually held Friday morning, will be Friday afternoon, followed by a one-hour opening business session from 4-5pm.

Here are District Conference highlights that you don’t want to miss!

• Pre-Conference Workshop! Join the denominational Deacon Ministry director Donna Kline for a workshop on Friday afternoon from 1:00 to 3:45pm. This will be a wonderful training for deacons, pastors, and other lay persons in your congregation!
• Connect with and support Brethren and ecumenical organizations throughout the weekend by visiting their displays! The Cedars’ annual ice cream social will take place Friday night, and new to the schedule is a Saturday afternoon reception hosted Prairie View. Plan to attend!
• Attend special meals including the Women’s Breakfast and the new Mission & Service Dinner on Saturday evening.
• Meaningful worship together! The youth will help prepare the Saturday evening worship, and preachers for the weekend will be Moderator Kenneth Davidson, pastor of the Mont Ida and Scott Valley congregations; Jerry Bowen, team pastor at the McPherson congregation; and Nancy Faus-Mullen, who is interim pastor at the Wichita congregation.
• Other opportunities will include youth and children activities, insight sessions, fellowship with one another!

Looking forward to seeing you at District Conference!

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Camp Colorado Workcamp Weekend

The dates have been set for the Workcamp Weekend at Camp Colorado.  We’ll be gathering on Friday, May 24th and working through Monday, the 27^th to open the camp and prepare it for the 2013 camping season. We provide the meals and the tools. You provide the big heart for the camp and a willing spirit to do whatever is needed.

We have a special project this year and that is to complete a tractor shed that was begun by Darrel Jones, our camp co-manager for the last decade, who was killed in a tragic accident in November.  We’ll come together to finish this in his memory.  And if construction is not your thing, we need cooks, sweepers, trail rakers, flower planters, wood stackers, hammerers, dish washers, dusters, organizers, you name it!

Come for an afternoon, a day or for the whole weekend. There is no cost and all meals are provided.  Bring a sleeping bag, pillow, work gloves, and lots of layers (it’s warm during the day and cold at night).  Please let us know if you’re coming (so we can have enough food on hand) by emailing Rosi Jones at campmgr@campcolorado.org or calling her at 719-688-2375.

Come join us for a weekend of hard work and good fellowship in the Rocky Mountains!

Art at District Conference 2013

Think about what light does in a dark room! The residents of New York and New Jersey in these last days have thought much about that! When one cannot have light or can have light powered by a generator only for as long as there is enough fuel for the generator, one appreciates light in a new way. Then, when the power lines are restored, and that first beam transforms the dark into the visible, the possible, the beautiful, the transformative power of light is unquestioned.

Ken Davidson, the 2013 Western Plains Moderator, has chosen the theme for the District Conference to be held July 26-28 at McPherson College. Are you ready?! The theme will be “Transformed by the Light of Christ”!

The Planning Committee hopes very much that each person will explore the transforming action of Christ’s light in his or her life. So they are issuing an invitation to the people of the district to bring their concepts of this theme to life in artwork. For now, begin thinking how you might portray that theme—“Transformed by the Light of Christ”—and make it visible and meaningful to the people of the Church of the Brethren in Western Plains.

As the Planning Committee continues it work, they will give further details. The Committee is excited about the possibility of having all of your art work, perhaps in a variety of forms, to be at the Conference! You are invited!!!