Whenever I read stories in the Old Testament, I find myself being pretty hard on the Israelites. I read their stories of unfaithfulness, ingratitude, and disobedience and think ‘You silly people, three pages ago God made you some pretty awesome…
The KC Fellows has been a whirlwind. It feels like the busyness of college and career mashed their heads together. Both seem to exist within the other. I have thrived in an environment that is probably unique to my strengths;…
It’s Friday morning and I’m not sitting with this year’s Fellows sipping coffee, disseminating scripture and discussing how to fuse our theology with our day to day choices in the workplace, living in community and how we seek the common…
Towards the end of each year, my wife and I choose one word to describe what we want to focus on for the upcoming new year. It is a practice I picked up from a friend when I moved to…
This blog post is written by: Karina Winkleman, KC Fellow 2016-17 Recently I’ve been thinking about how vocations are like clothing - a shirt, pants, shoes, a hat. Vocations are something you wear. Just like clothing, vocations are essentially required for existing in…
This blog post is written by Paige Wiley: KC Fellow 2018-19 What are most 20-somethings looking for right out of college? Good work. Inclusive community. Chances to grow, and opportunities to learn. All of the Fellows came to Kansas City…
We kicked off our very first Round Table dinner with a passage from Jeremiah 29. Rather than going to the oft quoted (and oft misquoted) verse 11, “For I know the plans I have for you,” we went a few…
At the Kansas City Fellows we emphasize four key areas into which Fellows learn to integrate their faith into: Live, Learn, Work and Serve. The serve component in particular is multi-faceted. At the KC Fellows we teach that all people…