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In Your Neighborhood

PCOS serves the local community and offers many opportunities to come into the building during the week and experience what is available to you, your family, friends. Also, listed below are ways you can get involved or offer help to those in need.

Print the Mission Ops Newsletter for this month- click here, find activities for you, your small group and family.

PCOS Blood Drives for 2011- Help Save a Life!
Please consider donating- you can sign up at the Welcome Center or online, www.savealifenow.org click "schedule and appointment" and enter stanleypres as the code. Dates for 2012: 4/10, 7/31, and 11/27. Appointments begin at 12:30-6pm. We serve great snacks too!

Youth Choir SILENT AUCTION, Sunday, Feb. 12 at PCOS between worship services in Fellowship Hall. Plan to join in the fun and bid on items and services- many provided by our own PCOS families. Proceeds benefit summer music mission trip.

Each summer the Youth Choir takes a trip to share God’s word in song with others from various parts of the country. These trips have involved a range of experiences, from singing in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., to participating in youth music conferences at Mo-Ranch in Texas. This year they traveled to Branson, MO and served with tornado recovery in Joplin, MO.

NEW! Alphabet Soup
Does your child suffer from excessive fears and worries, phobias, separation anxiety, panic attacks, frequent stomachaches, nightmares, even refusing to go to school? Do you want to help your child but don't know how? PCOS is hosting a support group for parents dealing with these special issues. Plan to attend our very first meeting, January 18, 6-8pm. We will have a guest speaker, Randy Flloyd, LSC SW. He will discuss practical techniques on how parents can help their child manage and overcome anxiety with compassion rather than avoidance, accomodations, and constant reassurance.

Meet UP! with other families and friends at PCOS. Get together for fun summer activities: playgroups, Royals games, running/walking groups, Moms Night Out, Day out trips with kids...and more created by you! Click here to get to the "meet up" page.

1st Wednesday of each month, 9:30am, OPEN Play for Moms & Kids
Bring the kids, toys and your to-go-cup of coffee! Each of you will make some new friends- play and chat time. Contact Cara Burgener.

Kids Care Club grades 1-6 are invited to join the fun at 4:15pm Wednesday. Next Session Winter, 2012- click here for more...

Send your favorite college student(s) a Valentine's Care Package, click here for an order form. Orders are dues Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012.

Learn more about mid-week children's programs, Wednesday Nights at PCOS

Serving Saturdays are an opportunity for groups and families to serve in the community. Usually, we meet the last Saturday of the month at PCOS at 9am and carpool to our location, then usually return between 2-3pm. Please email Sharon in the office if you want to volunteer or call 913-681-8180 ext. 10. Click here for a listing of serving dates and locations.
Jan. 28 at Cross-Lines thrift Store (628 S. Pyle, KCKS); sorting, organizing and pricing items for store. Website
Mar. 24 at Cross-lines; working in the community garden, bring work gloves and clothes that can dirty.
Apr. 28 at GUCM (80 Benton Blvd., KC. Mo); Pre-prepare a meal for 100 to be served Sunday. Website
May 19 at Heartland Presbyterian Camp (16965 MO hwy 45); working outdoors clearing trails, landscaping and much more! Website

Click here to learn more about organizations PCOS serves.

Job Search Support Group meets every Thursday at 9:30am and brings together individuals who are in the process of seeking another career position. The program is open to all church members as well as members of the community. There is no charge for the program. Larry Lee facilitates the group, contact the church office for more information 913-681-8180. Learn more about 'Project Light House' a ministry of PCOS: financial coaching, Christian Counseling and Compass Ministries. Click here.

PCOS is the proud home of Boy Scout Troop 222, click to visit their site.

For more information about The Presbyterian Church of Stanley in Your Neighborhood email Associate Pastor for Mission & Evangelism, Bo Burgener or call 913-681-8180 ext. 15,