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Topeka EDITION includes Lawrence, Manhattan, Emporia & Holton FREE! NE! The Area’s Most Complete Event Guide TAKE O Entertainment PAGE 16 HARVEY HOUSE LUNCHEON Page 13 CELEBRATING FAIT H, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS facebook /metrovoicenews Celebrating our 13th year! VISIT US AT or metrovoicenews.com VOLUME 13 • NUMBER 12 August 2019 TO ADVERTISE, CONTRIBUTE, SUBSCRIBE OR RECEIVE BULK COPIES, CALL 785-235-3340 OR EMAIL [email protected] NEW RESIDENT Christian Education church guide How to teach your kids Summit to take up First Southern Baptist where Sunday Church School left off to live a healthy lifestyle Dr. Don Davis See inside back cover! Great Expectations At its roots, the Sunday School move - in Marriage? ment was a response to the need for edu - cation for children who worked in facto - ries all week and found themselves aimless, uneducated and without purpose on Sundays. Urban families embraced the ini - by Calah Alexander them to the park — sometimes. But born, I reached the end of my rope. I tiative and benefactors helped it flourish. those were supplementary additions was tired of my kids fighting over the When public education took hold, the Five years ago, our family lifestyle to our unhealthy, sedentary lifestyle. remote, tired of my clothes not fit - movement focused its efforts on teaching was not healthy. We ate dessert every A lifestyle that was making all of us ting, and tired of feeling so dang the Story of God, and remained one of the night and spent so much time in unhealthy, lazy, and miserable. tired. Perhaps most importantly, I most significant means of neighborhood front of the TV that weekend movie Those might seem like harsh was desperate for some sort of connection and outreach. In the United nights increasingly became an exten - words, but I chose them because meaningful connection with my States, key publishing houses arose to meet sive search for something we *had - they’re true. They were true then, family. So I signed us all up for taek - the need for resources. The movement by Shane M. Jones n’t* already seen. however much I tried to ignore it or wondo. flourished until the 1970s, and then began to wane. I have many occasions in which I Sure, I fed my kids token greens excuse it away as “survival mode.” Yes, all of us — me included. In am able to see marriages at their with dinner — sometimes. I took After my youngest child Isaac was n Please see LIFESTYLE page 4 n Please see SUMMIT page 3 worst. What would be more accurate to say is, “I see people at their worst in their marriages.” A friend of mine said to me one day Name Change Reflects Move Toward Holistic Services that, “most expec - “It is not enough to offer someone and hope to all those served, this tations are usually a sandwich unless it is accompanied long-term approach sought to move pre-planned by the possibility of learning how to people from crisis situations to sus - resentments.” All of stand on one’s own two feet. Charity tainable hope for the future. us have expecta - that leaves the poor person as he is, is Today, Catholic Charities is poised tions, and we are not sufficient. True mercy, the mercy to take a major step in realizing this Jones not bad for having God gives to us and teaches us, goal. them. The problem with expecta - demands justice, it demands that the Since the name Emergency tions is that we often involve others in those expectations without them poor find the way to be poor no Assistance Center no longer reflects being very aware that they are part of longer.” -- Pope Francis Catholic Charities’ focus on holistic our plan; this is when we are working models of service for our brothers on the “pre-planned resentments.” In 2012, Catholic Charities of and sisters, input was sought from What is behind the tendency to Northeast Kansas began a shift away managers, senior staff, program staff have too many and too high of from one-time, crisis intervention and volunteers over the course of expectations? First, we have to look programs towards self-sustainability several months. Together, they rec - at our sin nature when looking at by offering long-term wrap-around ommended re-naming Catholic There has been discussion about of view of an individual. The word expectations. By nature, we are self - services. While Catholic Charities Charities’ seven sites to Family the use of the word family, and how family implies the call of Catholic will always provide food, clothing Support Centers. n Please see MARRIAGE page 2 it might be perceived from the point n Please see NAME CHANGE page 2 2 • August 2019 ________________________ MetroVoiceNews.com _________________________ Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ________________________ Topeka Metro Voice ‘Christianity is an evil cult’: MARRIAGE continued from page 1 Life Lessons Frosmeem liake IL haid ttle One What Chinese students are taught ish and self seeking, striving to fill the REAL PRAYERS really meant it. desires of the “flesh.” (Romans 7:5) We by Jessica S. Hosman My heart was are not going to always look out for the suddenly over - needs of others, but rather our own, We were out of town visiting family whelmed by an even when we have told ourselves we are as the adults talked and Zechariah awkward con - invested in the good of others, we will and his cousin played in the other viction. He was Jessica Hosman often see later that we were striving to room. I stood in the kitchen, attempt - right. It wasn’t a meet much of our own need. Another ing to engage in grown-up conversa - real prayer. It was mindless words I reason we develop unrealistic expecta - tion, when my son tried impatiently spoke to the air in attempt to go tions is because of the way marriage was to get my attention and interrupt on through the motions of what he modeled to us. Often individuals never numerous occasions. I admit – I was expected me to say. I justified my saw their parents disagree in front of irritated. And was ignoring all the actions because outwardly I said the them, and so when they have disagree - warning signs that an attempt for right thing; but I didn’t mean them. ments in their marriage, they not only negative attention (which we know And I certainly wasn’t focusing on This week the Trump administration mother to give up her faith, because don’t know how to handle it, but also are for kids is better than no attention) God when I spoke. announced plans to punish Chinese offi - “Christianity is an evil cult” and she “must - very discouraged because they expected would soon be here. Images of similar instances began cials involved in persecution by preventing n’t believe in it.”” that they would not have that level of The dishwasher was open at the racing through my thoughts: meal - their entry into the United States. The “problem.” A more common twist on time and somehow he walked into it. time, bedtime, church services… how moves comes as more evidence that the The mother was horrified by the shift in what we experienced growing up is that From there, a new level of drama many other times have I been guilty Chinese government continues to tighten her son’s attitude. a person will be prone to having such a began. From the performance that of saying the words without really its grip on Christianity by actively discour - “Before starting school, I told my child desire to not have the stressful marriage ensued, you would have thought it engaging with God in the process? aging students to engage in things of faith. about God’s creation, and he believed it,” they saw their parents have, that they will had torn his leg off. But really, I had God doesn’t want our words. He Under the last year’s new Regulations on she explained. “But after being taught at place expectations on themselves and seen from the corner of my eye that wants our heart. He doesn’t want our Religious Affairs legislation, schoolchild - school, my child is like a different person. their mate that says, “we will not do what the leg and dishwasher door barely rituals. He wants true engagement. ren are even encouraged to report any In atheistic China, these pure and innocent I saw Mom and Dad do, so if we do hap - touched one another. In tears, he Every time. family members who espouse Christian children have been taught to hate God.” pen to end up there, it must be your fault came over to me for the comfort he Maybe this encounter in a kitchen views. because I certainly did not want this!” was accustomed to. But quite honest - was simply a lesson for me to become According to Chinese persecution Turning Children Against the How can the problem of GREAT ly, I was still irritated that I couldn’t more aware of the greater need for watchdog, Bitter Winter, the new policy Faith of Their Parents EXPECTATIONS be avoided? First finish my conversation and now dual - sincerity within when I’m engaging in has created fierce rifts amongst families as there must be a coming to terms with the ly frustrated by the behavior. Rather prayer. But perhaps I’m not the only children are encouraged to questions and “If your mom goes to church and sin of our own flesh, and how fallen this than adding fuel to an already burn - one challenged by the question posed.