Adelante Thrift is transforming their Kansas City, Kansas neighborhood. Collaboration, generosity, and a passion to create the best thrift experience by caring at every opportunity make Adelante Thrift an exciting component of Mission Adelante’s strategy for community transformation. We provide amazing second-hand items at fantastic prices, job-readiness training for employees...
At Heartland we partner with Gracious Promise (men’s outreach) and Anchor Her (women’s outreach) to serve people in Johnson County jails or on intensive probation. We invite you to join us in reaching out to men and women who want to make major changes in their lives. You will have...
March 26-April 1, 2017 {The Sharing Economy: Our Five Capitals} By Bill McMurtrey Everyone loves a story about those who give back through sharing. Today when Dan had Carina up on stage talking about what she does, I couldn’t help but smile and think, "Wow, what a great...
March 19-25, 2017 {Sherpa: Adventure & Risk} By Lisa Zulke discovery noun dis·cov·ery \dis-ˈkə-v(ə-)rē\ : the act of finding or learning something for the first time God drew us up that mountain with discovery—every 50 yards we literally started seeing heart shaped rocks. For real (we carried some...
March 12-18, 2017 {Sherpa: To Teach With Joy} By Presley Wilson I am a teacher. “You know teachers don’t get paid, like, anything, right?” “Middle school?! Bless your heart!” “Well, at least you get summers off…” Although I’ve heard many other things when I tell people that I...
March 5-11, 2017 {Sherpa: Part 1} By Bill McMurtrey Brooke spoke about Mt. Everest as a metaphor for the mountains that we climb in our lives. As she so eloquently put it, "The reality is WE’RE ALL CLIMBING SOMETHING….in this thing called LIFE." She went on to say that...
February 26-March 4, 2017 {Living the Dream} By Sarah Hahs First semester of my freshman year of college I had a composition class that required us to write a paper a week. The first week I was very excited to hand in my first college paper. It felt so...
February 19-25, 2017 {Our Nation Is. . . Too Important To Stay The Same} By Bill McMurtrey During times of uncertainty people can act in a manner that is not only detrimental to their best interest, but in a way that is not glorifying to God or themselves....
February 12-18, 2017 {Community Is. . . Too Important To Stay The Same} By Adam Pontier I remember what it was like to not have community. My wife and I chose to move to Lees Summit back in the spring of 2009. We moved into a newer neighborhood...
February 5-11, 2017 {We Are . . . Too Important To Stay The Same} By Michelle Davis I had an artifact. For years I held onto my relationship artifact. It was a letter from a college boyfriend that I thought I was going to marry . . ....