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Each month, on the last Monday, the Midway community is invited to a free dinner served in Fellowship Hall at 6:30 p.m. We proudly use locally
grown meats and produce whenever available!
Note: Unless otherwise announced, this dinner will be held
during the COVID-19 outbreak, but restricted to pick-up or delivery. |
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Food For the Soul “dinner church” is usually held on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in Fellowship Hall, and
includes open discussion, a light supper, and a simple communion service. All are welcome!
Note: This
service will be held virtually on select Thursdays at
6:30 p.m. See details below. |
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Disciples Women is for all women of Midway Christian Church.
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Keenagers is for anyone who is retired, or practicing retirement! |
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Midway Green Chalice is for all who are interested in
caring for God’s creation |
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Midway Christian Church, as part of a rotation with other local churches, leads a worship service for the residents of The Homeplace.
Our services are held on the fourth Sunday of every other month - in January, March, May, July, September, and November.
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Sunday, January 24, 2021, we will celebrate Laity
Sunday, which is a “great opportunity to help
everyone explore and recognize the many types of
ministry that members of the congregation have
been uniquely gifted to accomplish.” During
the service, some of our members will give a
testimony about their faith. They will share with
us their faith journeys and who God is for them as
people of faith. We celebrate Laity Sunday because
“The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
are a people built upon laity and clergy working
together in service to Christ. Laity Sunday is a
special time to reflect upon, promote, and
celebrate the many roles served by [our]
congregation’s lay ministers, both inside and
outside [our] church walls.”
(www.disciples.org)
Lent begins on Sunday, February 21, 2021
 Lenten
Theme: "Holy Vessels"
“He took our infirmities and bore our
diseases.”
Matthew 8: 17b
Each of us is created a precious and holy vessel of embodied love. We have
been through a harrowing time since last Lent that has shattered our sense
of wholeness– body, mind, and spirit–like a glass vessel fractured into
pieces. In this Lenten “season of recovery” for our physical, communal,
mental, intellectual, and environmental health, we will explore the
healing narratives of Jesus that tell of divine solidarity with human
suffering and remind us that we can begin a journey toward making
something beautiful from that which is seemingly broken.
 Lenten Devotional: "The Cup
of Our Life" by Joyce Rupp
"With a new preface and fresh design, "The Cup of Our Life is for anyone seeking a more intimate
and disciplined life of prayer. Rupp illustrates how the ordinary cups
used each day can become sacred vessels that connect readers with life and
bring them into closer union with the Divine. She explores how the cup is
a rich symbol of life, with its emptiness and fullness, its brokenness and
flaws, and its many blessings. With daily devotions for six weeks, this
book is ideal for individual usage as well as group usage in parish
settings, religious communities, and small Christian communities."
The church has ordered 25 copies of this book so let the
church office know if you would like one. It also is
available for purchase in hardback, paperback or Kindle format from
Amazon, and as an audiobook from
christianaudio.com.
Wanted: Midway Christian Church
Cookbooks from the Past
 We
are on the hunt for Midway Christian Church
cookbooks from years past. We have three of the
older cookbooks on hand, in addition to the most
recent one, but are in need of the remaining ones
to complete the collection. The plan is to scan
all cookbooks for a digital copy, but ideally we
would like to have the actual cookbook to display
in the Hall of History.
Those already on hand include: Selected
Recipes from the Bluegrass (1923, rev. 1944),
Cook With Us Again (1975) and,
Christian Women's Fellowship (1986). If you
have any of the other cookbooks you could donate,
or loan for scanning, please
contact the church
office.
Your help in this project will be greatly
appreciated!
 Sanctuary Open for Prayer
The Midway Christian
Church sanctuary will be open on Wednesdays for
a time to visit. Many of you have not been in this
space since our in-person services ended in March
so this is an opportunity to come to the sanctuary
to pray, to reflect, or to just be in this sacred
space that we have all missed.
Note that the pews have been marked off to help
maintain social distance while people are
gathered. Since the number of people who can be
inside at any one time is limited to ten, please
contact the church office to sign up for the hour
that you would like to visit. Also, please wear a
mask when you are in the sanctuary and please wipe
down the area in which you sat when you leave.
The sanctuary will be open on Wednesdays from
10:00 a.m. till 7:00 p.m.
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