New series tells Topeka/Lawrence EDITION FREE! story of slavery E! The Area’s Most Complete Event Guide KE ON TA PAGE 16 GREATER VISION GOSPEL GROUP Page 13 CELEBRATING FAIT H, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS facebook /metrovoicenews Now in our 15th year! J VISIT US AT or metrovoicenews.com VOLUME 15 • NUMBER 11 uly 2021 TO ADVERTISE, CONTRIBUTE, SUBSCRIBE OR RECEIVE BULK COPIES, CALL 785-235-3340 OR EMAIL [email protected] NEW RESIDENT Cider Days Is church guide TThhee AAmmeerriiccaann TTrriinniittyy:: Harvest Family Back In 2021 Fellowship The Three Valluueess tthhaatt Make America Great See inside back cover! Kansas at the center of Cider Days Fall Market has been the official kick off to fall for the national prayer past 40 years! This family-friendly gathering festival truly has something for everyone including fresh pressed By Dennis Prager up the values. They are on every the years, E Pluribus Unum has also apple cider, delicious food American coin. served as a reminder of America's bold options, free entertainment and Race and ethnicity have defined The first, E Pluribus Unum, is Latin, attempt to make one unified nation of hundreds of artists, makers and every nation on earth. Except one: the meaning, “Out of many, one.” When people from many different back - antique pickers on display. The United States of America. It is defined first adopted as an American motto grounds and beliefs.” 40th annual event features an by values. shortly after the American founding in In other words, America doesn’t care apple pie bake off and an apple pie So, to understand America, you have 1776, it referred to the thirteen about your national or ethnic origins. eating contest. to understand American values. American colonies becoming one This explains why people who immi - “Last year was difficult for all of They are: nation. Over time, however, most grate to America assimilate faster and us, and many of our vendors were For many years Kansans have gath - 1. “E Pluribus Unum” Americans understood the motto to more fully than immigrants to any impacted financially from Covid- ered for strategic prayer at the geo - 2. “Liberty” mean one people from many back - other country. 19. We want to feature the amaz - graphic center of the continental 3. “In God We Trust.” grounds. To quote The E Pluribus Most of those who have immigrated ing small businesses that truly United States, located in Lebanon, I call this “The American Trinity.” I Unum Project, funded by the National to Europe, from, for example, Turkey – make Cider Days unique,” Zach Kansas. made up the name, but I didn’t make Endowment for the Humanities, “Over This year, national leaders are start - n Please see VALUES page 3 n Please see CIDER DAYS page 2 ing at 8 strategic locations across the country and driving toward the heart of the nation, stopping at churches for prayer to see revival come to our Goal reached for Choose Life plates nation. Kansans can now get their own to introduce a companion bill in the Prayer at the Heart of America, For “Choose LIFE” Kansas license plates, Senate, which he did. the Heart of America is a national call as the number of orders has reached HB 2678 was then combined with to prayer taking place Friday, July a sufficient number to begin the other groups wanting specialty 23rd, from 2-8pm at the geographical program. plates. It passed both the House and center of the 48 contiguous states. In February of 2018, Rep. Trevor Senate and was signed into law July This Prayer Gathering is the result of a Jacobs (R-District 4) was asked by a 1, 2018 by Governor Jeff Colyer. vision birthed in the heart of Doug Small and his passion for a fresh constituent if the state had Choose “Looking back, we give thanks to awakening across the United States of Life license plates. Rep. Jacobs God for inspiring Rep. Jacobs at the America. researched the situation to find that time in which He did,” said Barbara Prayer At the Heart is a call to the Kansas did not have such plates. Saldivar, State Director for family of faith, and the invitation is Without delay he introduced in the Concerned Women for America of per vehicle + $1.50 processing fee extended to everyone who believes House Transportation Committee, Kansas. “Any later and it more than The Procedure for online orders. Complete all fields that God is able to heal our land and HB 2678, that would make Choose likely would not have been signed Go to chooselifeplate.com, to for each vehicle you are registering. that He is our hope for revival and Life license plates available for pur - into law by today’s governor.” chase in Kansas. He then asked Sen. To date 33 states have now passed order your Choose Life license plate. Separate payments for each vehicle Please see PRAYER page 2 n Richard Hilderbrand (R-District 13) pro-life license plate legislation. The cost to pre-order plates is $40 n Please see CHOOSE LIFE page 2 2 • July 2021 ___________________________ MetroVoiceNews.com _________________________ Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ________________________ Topeka Metro Voice Poll: Nearly 70% believe moral values are getting worse PRAYER continued from page 1 The country is sliding down a finding, the newest survey found a slippery slope of moral values wide gap between Republicans and according to a new poll. Democrats on the issue. restoration. The Gallup polling finds that 67 An all-time high of 66 percent of Many today feel that our nation percent of Americans believe the Republicans say the state of moral has turned its back on its Judeo- state of moral values is getting values is poor, compared to 30 per - Christian heritage and foundation, worse, while just 28 percent say they cent of Democrats. Only seven per - and that the truth of God’s Word is are getting better. cent of Republicans rate the state of being ignored and rejected. There are major political divides, moral affairs as excellent or good, Biblically and historically, the call with 92 percent of Republicans and while 22 percent of Democrats is for the people of God who are almost half (49 percent) of answered that way. called by His name, to humble our - Democrats saying moral values are “Americans have long been dis - selves and pray, seek His face and getting worse. Only seven percent of mayed by the state of moral values turn from our wicked ways with the Republicans say moral values are in the country,” Gallup’s Lydia Saad promise that He will hear our getting better; for Democrats, it’s 46 wrote. “But partisan shifts suggest prayers, forgive our sins and heal percent. that the transfer of power in our land. year, spanning the 2020 election and slowly, with no comparable surge in Attendees are asked to bring water Forty-seven percent rate the state Washington has had a stronger than shift from Republican President concern following the transfer of and lawn chairs, as thousands are of moral values as poor, 37 percent usual effect on how partisans per - Donald Trump to Democratic presidential leadership from expected to come from across the as “only fair” and 15 percent as ceive the country’s moral compass, President Joe Biden,” Saad wrote. Republican to Democratic control nation to gather under a huge tent. “good.” Only 1 percent of Americans with Democrats now the most opti - “Before now, Republicans’ ratings of in 2009, nor decrease when Trump No food will be offered at the event. say the state of moral values in the mistic they have been in two decades moral values had been worsening replaced Barack Obama in 2017.” To register for the event, go to United States today is “excellent.” and Republicans the least.” eventbrite.com/e/prayer-at-the- Although the 47 percent who “Republicans’ views of the state of heart-registration-158128987057 answered “poor” matches the 2019 moral values in the country have For more information about the reading and is similar to the 2017 grown sharply worse over the past Leading historian warns of event and the various prayer routes ‘fake religion’ of woke culture go to prayerattheheart.com So-called woke culture is a fake reli - speech that can only be pursued by the gion that can have deadly consequences, believers. It’s rather cultlike, Matt a leading historian said. Yglesias is not somebody I usually agree CIDER DAYS Hoover Institution fellow Niall with, but he called it the Great continued from page 1 Ferguson, a Scottish author and histori - Awokening. This was a very astute obser - an, appeared on Fox News host Tucker vation. So we are dealing not just with Haney, Owner of Cider Days said. Carlson’s podcast “Tucker Carlson the decay of traditional religion but far The festival, held annually the Today,” where he explained why the worse, the rise of new fake religions, last weekend of September is locat - political left does not focus on the econ - political religions. and one thing that’s ed at the Stormont Vail Event omy much anymore compared to the very clear from the 20th century is that Center in Topeka, KS. Featuring past. when people take their religious feelings “The people on the left didn’t really and they apply them to political ideolo - beautiful arts and crafts, vintage want to have a conversation about eco - gies, terrible things can happen.” finds, small businesses and non - nomics, because they had lost their argu - Ferguson compared woke culture to profits on display, contests, ments in the 1980s; they really hadn’t previous dangerous ideologies.