Christians at the Grammys Topeka EDITION includes Lawrence, Manhattan, Emporia & Holton FREE! NE! The Area’s Most Complete Event Guide TAKE O Page 16 ELMONT OPRY 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 7 March 2019 TO ADVERTISE, CONTRIBUTE, SUBSCRIBE OR RECEIVE BULK COPIES, CALL 785-235-3340 OR EMAIL [email protected] NEW RESIDENT New poll shows church guide Examining Our Value Americans shifting East Side Baptist Church pro-life in wake of Part II new abortion laws See inside back cover! EasterFest 2019 Several new state laws regulating the termination of pregnancy seem to have brings Parade, Fun had an effect on Americans’ views on abortion, shifting opinion more toward pro-life stances. Fair to N. Kansas A new Marist poll has found a signifi - cant shift in opinion since a similar survey Ave. & Garfield Park was conducted, only one month before. The survey, taken Feb.12-17 in the wake of efforts in several states to legalize abortion up until birth, showed signifi - Why are we herrieence da timnes wdhe n wyou havea feltt emipsty oLifue-Grive r pandu getr top know Hsime pe? rson - cant shifts led by Democrats and those By Barry Feaker inside… perhaps longing for something ally. under 45 years old. with Jessica Hosman but unsure of exactly what? I’ve experienced seasons in my life “Current proposals that promote late- Editor’s note: In Part II of a series, Do you feel close to God; like you truly when I have felt empty and as if my faith term abortion have reset the landscape Barry Feaker, Executive Director of TRM have an intimate relationship with Him account was completely bankrupt. It has - and language on abortion in a pro - Ministries, examines life's biggest ques - or are you going through the motions of n’t been because of a lack of faith, howev - nounced – and very measurable – way,” tions, and how we as individuals, the service, feeling disconnected and alone er. I’ve seen God do too much to ever said Barbara Carvalho, director of The Food trucks, entertainment, church and the community can provide through it all? doubt His existence. I know through Marist Poll. value and help solve the issues faced by In order to understand our value and experience that He is fully capable of Americans are now as likely to identify vendors, games & Health Fair our society today. purpose, this is where we must start. We doing anything but fail. as pro-life (47 percent) as pro-choice (47 EasterFest, the 6th annual Topeka Last month we began exploring the can go to church every Sunday, serve in But I can slip into that place of feeling percent). Just last month, a similar survey Easter Parade & Fun Fair, will return to question: Why are we here and what is various capacities and be the best bankrupt when I consciously or subcon - conducted by Marist found Americans North Topeka on Saturday, April 20, our true purpose in this world? Christian we know how to be, but life sciously decide to spend less time with more likely to identify as pro-choice than Have you ever questioned that or expe - 2019. About three thousand people won’t really come to us until we go to the n Please see VALUE page 4 n Please see PRO-LIFE page 3 attended last year to watch the parade, visit the Fun Fair, listen to live music, visit over 70 vendor & exhibit booths, attend the Health Fair and take part in TThhe Seup reSmeu Cpourrt eseemmed epo isCed otuhe Cronts titiustio np, buot thiast ae simdila r tdiospla y protect this 40-foot veteran’s cross the big egg hunt or other activities. Wednesday to protect a 40-foot memorial in a Kentucky courthouse did. Justice Neil Every year, dozens of churches, cross on public land in Bladensburg, Gorsuch colorfully derided the control - businesses and non-profit organiza - Maryland, from a lawsuit that argues it ling precedents as “a dog’s breakfast” dur - tions take part in the parade, and violates the Constitution. ing Wednesday’s arguments. dozens more set up vendor booths and Though the bottom-line outcome was Two parties are separately defending kids' games as part of the family fun never seriously in doubt, the justices the memorial, known colloquially as the fair. There have been lots of floats with appeared divided and confused during Peace Cross; The American Legion, which a variety of themes, and all shapes and Wednesday’s argument as to why the built and dedicated the memorial to the sizes of other vehicles, as well as walk - ing entries such as schools, military monument should pass constitutional World War One dead of Prince George’s groups, marching bands and more. muster. County in 1925, and the Maryland state The event is coordinated by C5Alive, a The Court’s jurisprudence concerning parks commission that administers the Christian leadership offshoot of the religion in public life is famously confused site today. The Legion urged the Court to Capital City Christian Chamber of — on one day in 2005, the high court said sanction government-backed sectarian that a statue of the Ten Commandments displays provided they do not proselytize n Please see EASTERFEST page 3 near the Texas statehouse did not violate n Please see CROSS page 2 2 • March 2019 _________________________ MetroVoiceNews.com _________________________ Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ________________________ Topeka Metro Voice Life Lessons From a Little One Trump ends ‘slush fund’ for Planned Parenthood helps paint a pic - Trump ends ‘slush fund’ for Planned DEPENDENCY ture of what our Parenthood by Jessica S. Hosman Father desires for The Trump administration has deliv - each one of us ered a blow to the abortion industry, A highly unusual independent streak throughout every finalizing a rule that redirects Title X has overtaken my son. While his strong stage of our lives. family planning funds away from will has always equipped him with inde - God has Jessica Hosman groups like Planned Parenthood, which pendence in thinking – and debating – uniquely created is America’s biggest abortion provider. he’s definitely still more interested in each one of us. By nature, we are inde - Under the new rule, health clinics being coddled and taken care of than ris - pendent creatures who have learned how must be “physically and financially” ing up with initiative in some areas. to make it in this world. But He never separate from abortion providers in Of his own ambition, he read his intended for us to do so alone. He never order to receive Title X family planning Bible, prayed and put himself to bed. I intended for us to figure everything out grants. understand to most this is not earth-shat - based on our own cleaver ideas or intel - To get those grants, women’s clinics tering; but in our home, this is the first lect. He wants us to come to Him, rest in also won’t be permitted to refer clients time ever. And he just turned eight years His arms, eat from His table and receive to other places to get an abortion. old! It didn’t stop there. The next day, he what He has to give. That’s not something Moreover, clinics will not be allowed to “We thank President Trump for (Health and Human Services Secretary prepared lunch for everyone in the house. we will ever outgrow. Zechariah may not promote abortion as a family planning taking decisive action to disentangle Alex) Azar for ensuring that the Title X Then cleaned up. He even asked if he always need or receive from me the same taxpayers from the big abortion program is truly about funding family could learn how to vacuum the house (I way he does today, but we will always industry led by Planned Parenthood,” planning, not abortion,” Dannenfelser absolutely taught him!). Through this, need God. Sure, we can go through the said SBA List President Marjorie concluded. God showed me the value of dependence, motions on our own and probably figure Dannenfelser. Family Research Council President even when capable of independence. out a way to make things work; but it “The Protect Life Rule does not cut Tony Perkins also praised the move by Many reading this may take pride in won’t be the way He intended. He wants family planning funding by a single the Trump administration, calling it “a the fact that they us to live from a place dime, and instead directs tax dollars to major step toward the ultimate goal of consider themselves of rest, knowing that – even though we can entities that provide healthcare to ending taxpayers’ forced partnership an independent per - do much for ourselves women but do not perform abortions,” with the abortion industry.” son. Perhaps there is – we don’t have to. We she continued. “Planned Parenthood and other much you accom - don’t have to be the She pointed out that Title X program abortion centers will now have to plish daily and have hard rock that never was never intended to be a “slush fund” choose between dropping their abor - risen above some method. cracks and appears to for abortion groups like Planned tion services from any location that gets great odds that were A statement from the pro-life Susan consistently have it all Parenthood, “which violently ends the Title X dollars and moving those abor - stacked against you B. Anthony List praises the new rule, together. We can be lives of more than 332,000 unborn tion operations offsite.