VISIT US AT metro kansas city facebook/metrovoicenews EDITION or metrovoicenews.com EDUCATION & COLLEGE EXPO MARCH 1 PAGE 11 CELEBRATING FAITH, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY IN KANSAS CITY VOLUME 25 • NUMBER 2 February 2014 FREE– TAKE ONE! BIG changes Parents Find at the Voice Education Expo Redesigned website first Invaluable Tool change for 2014 see tss March 1 event will host Metro Voice Newspaper relaunched its web - l FFaals FFaacct 50 Christian colleges, site, metrovoicenews.com, Jan. 1 with little pub - lic fanfare but apparently people have area K-12, homeschool noticed –the site’s vis - resources & seminars itors are growning exponentially. by Lee Hartman The paper has Private education, whether on the had a web pres - K-12 or college level, continues to be an ence since important topic to many Christian par - 1999 –an eternity in internet ents. Add to that the growing number of years –but with families considering homeschooling, the changing way and it is no wonder the Christian Edu - readers are accessing the paper, it wanted to Why we love cation Expo on March 1 will attract revamp the way it delivers online news. Read - Bob Smietana | Lifeway ers using their smart phone, tablet or other mobile device can now have easy access to NASHVILLE, Tenn. – We’ve all gotten bthe aemdails osr steean ts local breaking Christian news, calendar events the Facebook posts–strange and fairly believable facts just and videos. When the site is visited, your device about everything. For most, we know to do a little research will automatically see it in a special one column before we pass them on or share over the water cooler. format saving you data. In addition, the site has been expanded with new features and is totally Sometimes these unresearched “factoids” make it into redesigned. the evening news or even the Sunday sermon. “Our print publication continues to grow,” Like this one, which came halfway through a recent thousands of people. The 16th annual said Dwight Widaman, publisher. “And the web - sermon I heard on marriage. Things are scary out site serves as a great, and growing, compliment there, the preacher told us. And there’s no difference event, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 2 to a successful publishing plan.” between people sitting in these pews and everyone else p.m., will again be held at Colonial Pres - He says that 33 percent of visitors are ac - when it comes to divorce. byterian Church, 9500 Wornall Road in cessing the site from smart phones. It made a great sermon illustration. Only it’s not south Kansas City, just north of I-435. Now 25 years old, the Voice is now KC’s true, according Bradley Wright, a sociologist at the Parents looking both at K-12 op - third largest city-wide newspaper. To celebrate, See FALSE FACTS page 23 the paper gets a makevoer in 2014. See EDUCATION page 6 Teen girl’s brain death divides pro-life community Medical experts tient they consider to be dead. “Jahi is free! Jahi is free! She is safely disagree whether out of Children’s,” tweeted Christopher Jahi McMath is still alive Dolan, the family’s lawyer. The McMath case grabbed headlines by Daniel James Devine and roused emotions from Americans, (WNS)--The sad case of a brain-dead who either defended the hospital’s at - girl in Oakland, Calif., took a new turn tempt to remove the girl’s ventilator or recently, when an ambulance trans - defended the family’s effort keep her or - 3 6 ferred 13-year-old Jahi McMath to a gans alive. Pro-life advocates, too, are di - 0 4 long-term care facility. Although Mc - vided: Some compare the case to that of 6 Math’s family would not disclose the Terri Schiavo, who was dehydrated and O name of the facility, they say the girl will starved to death in 2005 after a lengthy M , 4 t receive a tracheostomy and feeding court battle. Others say the key differ - i 1 e 1 m tube. The move marks an end to a battle ence for McMath is that she has irre - c 1 i m x o between the family and Children’s Hos - versible brain death. u o V S pital and Research Center Oakland, “Someone who’s truly brain-dead, B o s Supporters of a miracle for r . ’ t e which had been attempting to remove barring a miracle, is not going to walk e O Jahi are not giving up hope. e See JAHI McMATH page 23 M P L life support from an unresponsive pa - GET 50% OFF YOUR ADVERTISING! CALL 816-524-4522 OR EMAIL [email protected] 2 • February 2014 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––metrovoicenews.com I facebook.com/metrovoicenews ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Metro Voice Homeless ministry celebrates 10 years helping needy Hope Faith Ministries (HFM), an the barber shop, transportation, storage of equipping day center that serves the needs belongings and personal mail and phone of the homeless and less fortunate in services. Kansas City, is celebrating its 10-year an - Community donations of furnishings niversary in 2014. and household items allow HFM to help Founded by a small group of individu - families move into an apartment, fur - als from Church of the Resurrection, the nished with the essentials. organization started by serving meals to as The premier program at HFM is their many as 800 homeless individuals each “Transitional Internship Program” where week. Ten years later, HFM serves 3,000 - at any given time, over 40 individuals re - 4,000 people weekly that have spent the ceive transitional housing and a personal night at a nearby shelter, out on the streets mentor to help them navigate their way or at a neighborhood campground. from the streets to employment and then “Everyone involved with Hope Faith on to independent living. Ministries is marking 2014 as a year of cel - The 10-year grand milestone will be ebration and gratitude. formally celebrated on Saturday, March 29 “Those that have blazed the trail to get at their “Moonlight Masquerade Benefit us to where we are today are to be com - Gala” to be held at the Overland Park Con - mended for their valiant hard work and vention Center. dedication to be a positive force in the The Apartment Association of Kansas community for the homeless,” said Duane Volunteers organize clothing donations. Hope Faith Ministries started because several people wanted to serve. City is co-sponsoring this event. KMBC’s Skjervem, executive director of Hope Faith anchor, Len Jennings will serve as master Ministries. shelter and clothing but they collaborate sistance. A free medical clinic and life skills easily find a path from homelessness to of ceremonies for the evening that in - Over the years, HFM has expanded the with dozens of agencies throughout classes enable the homeless to receive des - self-sufficiency, from dependence to inde - cludes an auction, dinner and dancing. For services they offer so that today, not only Kansas City, assisting the homeless to find perately needed medical attention and im - pendence. Other services include showers, info visit www.hopefaithministries.org or do they provide the essentials of food, jobs, housing and needed government as - prove their skills so that they can more laundry services, haircuts and a shave at call 816.471.4673, ext. 100. Nixon caps state of the state address with push to e 4th Annual meet health, mental health needs, expand Medicaid Conference for by Dwight Widaman “Each day we don’t act, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is pushing ahead with Medicaid expansion in the nearly 300,000 working Pastors and Laity state. The Missouri Legislature in 2013 re - Missourians go another at Ottawa University fused the federal government’s attempts to expand Medicaid to cover more people, day without the treatment creating a showdown with Nixon. The confrontation painted Republicans as they desperately need, for heartless and Nixon as a big spender but did little to educate the public on the costs. no other reason than they “Each day we don’t act,” Nixon said in e Fredrikson Center for Faith and Church his January state of the state address, live in Branson instead of “nearly 300,000 working Missourians go Vitality is now accepting registrations for the another day without the treatment they Bentonville, in Cape JAY NIXON following seminars: desperately need, for no other reason than Girardeau instead of Cairo, they live in Branson instead of Bentonville, a result of our failure to act don’t work in in Cape Girardeau instead of Cairo, in in Maryville instead of the White House — they work the night Maryville instead of Muscatine.” shift in our factories,” he said. “They wait t'JTDBMMZ'BJUIGVM4FSWBOUT Missouri is one of over 25 states that are Muscatine.” tables and scrub floors. They drive snow Financing Church Growth pushing back against what will become a plows and look after our kids.” t5BOHJCMF4FSWBOU-FBEFSTIJQ nearly unfunded mandate. Nixon, who Missouri accepts the expansion, in future Nixon even brought the Bible into the has supported the federal funding of the years historic tax increases would be nec - argument referencing Isaiah saying, “If you tćF)JHI1FSGPSNBODF$IVSDI program, has not responded to requests essary to replace the lost federal funding. satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your for how he will pay for the billions in ad - This is an aspect that Nixon, and the light shall rise in the darkness and your t6OEFSTUBOEJOH:PVS'MPDL ditional expense once the federal funding media, have failed to share with Missouri - night will become like the noonday.” t8IFO(PPE4IFFQ(P#BE runs out.