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- Raucous Reverend: Tonganoxie priest cheers on homeland in World Cup
- July 20, 2018
- The Rev. Mark Goldasich had a mighty schedule conflict Sunday. While many of his friends and relatives of Croatian decent in the Strawberry Hill district of Kansas City, Kan., had surely attended Mass on Saturday night and thus were able to watch the big World Cup match Sunday morning, Goldasich had a job requirement.
- Divine cheers for Croatia from Tonganoxie
- July 14, 2018
- The Rev. Mark Goldasich said he might need an iPad at the altar for his Mass at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Tonganoxie. After all, Croatia — the Goldasich family’s homeland — plays at 10 a.m. Sunday for the World Cup soccer championship.
- A place to call home in Tonganoxie at Cornerstone Family Worship
- January 24, 2018
- Cornerstone Family Worship had services for 329 Sundays at the Tonganoxie Performing Arts Center on the Tonganoxie High School campus. Some church members would be there, sometimes before dawn, getting the space ready for services. To break down that number down even more, that’s a bit more than six years of the church’s congregation meeting there Sunday after Sunday. But who’s counting?
- Cornerstone Family Worship inviting community to celebrate opening Sunday
- January 20, 2018
- Cornerstone Family Worship has a new home and its ready to celebrate it with the community. The church will have a grand opening ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. The Rev. Ron Swaim invites the community to share in the church’s celebration at 205 U.S. Highway 24-40.
- Tonganoxie’s Victory Baptist Church open house to welcome new pastor Sunday
- November 15, 2017
- The Rev. Dean Fitzsimmons is the new pastor at Victory Baptist Church in Tonganoxie. Area residents are invited to get to know the new pastor during an open house this week. The event will be 2-5 p.m. Sunday at the church, 1302 West St. (U.S. Highway 24-40) in Tonganoxie. An event announcement can be found on the Victory Baptist Church Facebook page.
- Tonganoxie United Methodist Women chili and soup supper is Friday
- November 1, 2017
- The United Methodist Women of Tonganoxie United Methodist Church are hosting a soup and chili supper Friday. Soup will be served from 4:30-7 p.m. Friday at Hughes Hall in the Tonganoxie UMC basement. For a free-will offering, you get your choice of sopu or chili, a dessert and drink. Proceeds will go toward mission work.
- Soup supper, Christmas concert Sunday in McLouth
- December 13, 2016
- McLouth United Methodist Church invites the public to a 5 p.m. soup supper, followed by a 6:30 p.m. Christmas concert by the Wright Family on Sunday. Join the church for a joyous holiday event.
- Lesbian Methodist pastor leaves Edgerton church on involuntary leave to avoid trial
- August 28, 2016
- A lesbian pastor has agreed to go on involuntary leave from her United Methodist Church in Edgerton to avoid a church trial over her sexual orientation. Cynthia Meyer and Methodist officials agreed in early August that her leave will begin Wednesday. Her final sermon in Edgerton was Sunday. No other United Methodist church will be able to appoint her as a pastor but churches could hire her to “perform functions equivalent to a lay staff person,” according to the agreement.
- Soles for souls: Tonganoxie church collects shoes to raise money for religious studies
- August 17, 2016
- Boots and many other types of shoes donated at Sacred Heart Catholic Church were made for walking. It turns out those shoes also were made to raise a good chunk of change for education programs at the church. Several volunteers helped religious education coordinators Nancy Lanza and Jennifer Eastes on Saturday with loading those donated shoes — about 175 bags to be exact — for Funds2Orgs, a company that trades shoes for money in group’s fundraising campaigns.
- Accomplished musicians to perform Sunday at First Congregational Church of Tonganoxie
- December 16, 2015
- The First Congregational Church of Tonganoxie is hosting a Christmas concert featuring a trio of accomplished musicians.
- Tonganoxie church takes another step toward new building
- About 90 attend groundbreaking ceremony
- August 11, 2015
- As church and city officials got ready to break ground during a ceremony last week for the new Cornerstone Family Worship along U.S. Highway 24-40, one person found a penny as he began to shovel.
- Tonganoxie City Council holds off on excise tax decision for church
- June 22, 2015
- The Tonganoxie City Council held off on a decision on Cornerstone Family Worship’s excise tax exemption request. The Rev. Ron Swaim, pastor for Cornerstone Family Worship, spoke to the council during Monday’s regular city council meeting. Swaim’s congregation will have a new church where the Sunset Motel formerly stood near the U.S. Highway 24-40 curve across from Tonganoxie High School’s east campus to the northwest.
- Tonganoxie churches offering free eyeglass exams
- March 26, 2015
- West Haven Baptist Church and First Baptist Church of Tonganoxie are co-sponsoring a free eyeglass clinic next week.
- Knights of Columbus offering fish fries
- February 28, 2015
- Fish dinners will be served 4-7 p.m. each Friday during Lent at the Sacred Heart Parish Center. The full-course dinner includes fried catfish, baked pollock, a vegetable, salad, dessert and drink. Cost is $8.50 for adults younger than 60 and youths older than 12, $8 for senior citizens 60, $3 for children ages 5-12 and free for children 4 and younger.
- Pastor’s corner: All in to fight local hunger
- January 9, 2015
- There doesn’t seem to be much on which we all agree. We are Jayhawks or Wildcats or Tigers. We are Mac or PC. We are Republican or Democrat. We apply these labels, even in subtle and subconscious ways, to define who we are and where we belong. These labels, and our beliefs around them, often separate and divide.
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