Spirit of Christ MCC

Our Story... 

Spirit of Christ MCC:

• Was started in October 1996 as a Bible Study and support group by MCC'ers from around the country who had come home to the greater Joplin area;
• Our first meeting was in the home of our pastor and worship leader with seven people in attendance;
• Almost immediately we started talking about worship and needing a place we could call our church home.  We chose our name, Spirit of Christ MCC at the second meeting, contacted Rev. Bob Arthur, the District Coordinator for the Mountian and Plains District and neogiated a rental agreement with Unity of Joplin;
• The first Sunday in December of 1996 we were iced out but we gathered together via conference calls to share scripture and pray;
• The second Sunday of December we were able to hold our first worship service at 6 PM;
• Our concert series started the first year with Marsha Steven's performing her witness in music and testimony. Marsha has celebrated with us every year since and we have added such distinguished artist as Shawn Thomas, Sam Sampson, Justin Vaughn and others;
• The church has been closely associated with AIDS Project of the Ozarks for ten years and three of it's member have been trained to perform oral testing for persons concerned with catching the HIV virus; and
• We have been faithfully served by our Worship Leader Steve Urie since the inception of the church.  He was appointed Interim Pastoral Leader and through special circumstances was ordained during General Conference on July 20th, 2005. Rev. Steve Urie remains with us today.
• In 2009 we agreed to partner with OARS in NWA in Eureka Springs, AR.

Spirit of Christ starts new campaign...

Using the MCC logo and the words, "I am a MCC'er!" or "We are MCC'ers" Staff, members and friends of the church are adding this information to their facebook, myspace and pvt web pages with church information and service times.  Some said, "We are tired of people saying they don't know we are here... what better way to let them know then to share it personally & visibley!”

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Chris Parrish has agreed to accept the position of Worship Coordinator and will be scheduling all persons willing to help with different components of our worship services... please give him a call to let him know what you are willing to do to help with worship... readings, prayers, announcements, etc.

He may be called at 417-825-7004 before 9PM.

STEWARDSHIP MINISTRY

Volunteers needed for this valuable ministry.  If interested please contact Pastor Steve.

Goal for the Stewardship Ministry is:  to help God's people grow in their relationship with Jesus through the use of the time, talents and finances God has entrusted to them.