This however is not just something for one community or one nation…it’s global.  This summer Karis sending a team to Brazil to join in the effort to RestoreBrazil.  This will be the second time that Karis has sent a team overseas.  In 2008 Karis sent a team Kampala, Uganda to work in the villages surrounding the capital.

Shalom is for everyone, everywhere.  Shalom comes through the restoring hope of Jesus.

To get involved in Shalom in Columbia and learn more about Shalom International, contact Ryan.

It is a great honor to be nominated for this award and Karis is excited to get to partner with local agencies like the Boone County Council on Aging.  However, all the efforts of our church point to the need for a true hero.  Every community and every person needs the man who can rescue them from everything that’s wrong in the world.  His name is Jesus.  He is the true hero!

To join Karis in serving the community, email Ryan.

Everyday there are children in Columbia who put their name on a list.  A list for what?  A friend.  A mentor.  Big Brothers Big Sisters is a great organization that links children in Columbia with caring adults who serve as a mentor in their life.  This provides the children with a positive role model and someone to genuinely care about them.

Many children have to wait a long time.  Children with parents who are in prison usually wait even longer.  There is a special need for mentors for children with parents in prison and Karis has been asked to help.  Would you consider being a mentor to a child with a parent in prison?  If you’d like to learn more, email Tom.  Tom is a Karis representative to Big Brothers Big Sisters and is a mentor as well.

This is a great way to serve kids in our community and share the love of Jesus with them.  It is also a way to connect and serve those that are in prison by serving their children.

Seek Shalom.  Help a child in need.

“Everything about the tragedy in Haiti points to our need for redemption. This tragedy may lead to a new openness to the Gospel among the Haitian people. That will be to the glory of God. In the meantime, Christ’s people must do everything we can to alleviate the suffering, bind up the wounded, and comfort the grieving. If Christ’s people are called to do this, how can we say that God hates Haiti?”

To read more, go to: http://www.albertmohler.com/2010/01/14/does-god-hate-haiti/

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Karis Community Church will be hosting an arts camp at Douglass Park for children grades K-5 on Saturday, September 19, 2009. The camp, titled “Re-Create,” will consist of art projects including painting, abstract building, poetry, and rhythm, with a focus on using “everyday” items for art. The projects will run from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., followed by games and free food. The food will be served until 4:00 p.m. and everyone is invited.  If you’d like to Volunteer contact Bobby.

In early church history Shalom was a word spoken to another person as a greeting or a farewell.  It represented a spoken hope for peace.  It was a hope that all that was wrong would be made right and that instead of unrest and turmoil would be peace.  This hope still exists in our world today.  There is suffering, oppression, hurt, confusion.  At the same, time there is hope for peace.  There is Shalom.

Shalom is something we can seek today.  We can seek it through Jesus.  Jesus is the answer to all that’s wrong in the world.  He restores all things.  He makes everything new.

Join us as we Seek Shalom in Columbia.  Check out our projects or email Ryan to get more information how you can seek Shalom in Columbia, Mo.

Be sure to join us next time we go out and serve the city.  If you’d like to get involved in one of our many Shalom projects, please contact Ryan for more info.