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Note: Please contact the church or check its social media pages to see if it is having services or making schedule changes in the event of inclement weather or high COVID numbers.

Blessed Sacrament and Christ the King Catholic churches have information about Masses at the churches’ websites or Facebook pages at www.facebook.com/Christ-the-King-Parish-KCKS-1392808997677579 and www.facebook.com/BlessedSacramentkck. Masses at Christ the King are at 4 p.m. Saturday, 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday. Masses at Blessed Sacrament are at 6 p.m. Saturday, and at 7:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday. Christ the King will have a St. Joseph’s Table celebration from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 19, in Davern Hall at the church. A spaghetti dinner and bingo are planned, and desserts are available for purchase. Christ the King will hold a Called and Gifted Workshop at 9:30 a.m. March 26 in English, and at 12:30 p.m. March 26 in Spanish at the James P. Davis Hall, Wyandotte County Lake Park. Reservations are required.

Casa – Worship House Christian Church, 5217 Leavenworth Road, Kansas City, Kansas, has regularly scheduled Sunday services at 11 a.m. See more details for this Sunday at www.facebook.com/casadealabanzaKCKS. For more information, visit Facebook @casadealabanzaKCKS.

The “Scripture Group: Lectio and Discussion,” will be held from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, at the Keeler Women’s Center, 759 Vermont Ave., Suite 100B, Kansas City, Kansas. Heather Neds will lead the group. The meeting is planned for in-person or Zoom. Registration for the free program is required to 913-689-9375 or visit www.keelerwomenscenter.org.

Oak Ridge Missionary Baptist Church, 9301 Parallel Parkway, Kansas City, Kansas, will have information about services, and registration at https://www.facebook.com/ORMBCKC or http://ormbc.org/church-online/.

Open Door Baptist Church, 3033 N. 103rd Terrace, Kansas City, Kansas, will have services at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, March 20, and livestreamed at https://www.opendoorkc.com/livestream. A concert featuring Big Daddy Weave with Ryan Ellis is planned at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 27, at the church. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at https://www.ticketweb.com/event/big-daddy-weave-with-featured-open-door-baptist-church-tickets/11524455?pl=transparentprod&edpPlParam=%3Fpl%3Dtransparentprod. For more information see https://www.facebook.com/opendoorkc/ and https://www.opendoorkc.com/.

Our Lady and St. Rose Catholic Church, 2300 N. 8th St., Kansas City, Kansas, will hold Mass at 11 a.m. Sunday, March 20. For more information, see https://www.facebook.com/ourladyandsaintrose.

Stony Point Christian Church, 149 S. 78th St., Kansas City, Kansas, will have a worship service at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, March 20. Sunday school is at 9 a.m. Stony Point is planning an Easter pancake breakfast on Sunday, April 17, in the church coffee shop. See more information at https://www.facebook.com/StonyPointChristianChurch.

St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church plans a Lenten fish fry from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 25, at 2910 Strong Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. It is sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Unity Council 709. The cost is $12 for a shrimp large plate and $8 for a shrimp or fish small plate.

St. Patrick Catholic Church, 1086 N. 94th St., Kansas City, Kansas, has information about Masses, and livestreamed Masses, at https://www.facebook.com/StPatrickKCK. St. Patrick’s Mass times are at 5 p.m. Saturday, 7:30 a.m., 9:15 a.m., 11 a.m., 12:45 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The 12:45 p.m. Mass is in Spanish, and the 2:30 p.m. Mass is in Burmese. St. Patrick Church will hold a pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday, March 20, in the parish center. St. Patrick Church will hold a fish fry starting at 4:30 p.m. Fridays during Lent, in the parish center. Drive-up service will be available. Adult meals are $12 and kids meals are $6. The family meal is $35 and will serve two adults and two or more children under 12. Each meal comes with mac and cheese or French fries, green beans, cole slaw, a roll, a drink and dessert.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1300 N. 18th St., Kansas City, Kansas, will have services at 10 a.m. Sunday, March 20. See more information at https://www.facebook.com/StPaulsKCK/ or https://www.stpaulskck.org/.

Sunset Hills Christian Church, 6347 Leavenworth Road, Kansas City, Kansas, has regularly scheduled Sunday services at 9:30 a.m., with Sunday School following service at 10:45 a.m. The Wednesday Night Bible Study will be held at 7 p.m. in Fellowship Hall. Livestream services here at https://www.facebook.com/sunsethills.christianchurch/. For more information visit sunsethills@churchtrac.com or email sunsethillscc@att.net.

Wyandotte United Methodist Church, 7901 Oakland Ave., Kansas City, Kansas, has regularly scheduled services at 10 a.m. Sunday, with Sunday School at 9 a.m. A Lenten study group will meet from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Fellowship Hall. For more information, including information about livestreamed services, see https://www.facebook.com/Wyandotteumc.

Information about other church services in Wyandotte County may be available from the church’s social media page.
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Mayor, Rep. Ruiz to speak at Democratic breakfast Saturday

The guest speakers at the Saturday, March 19, Wyandotte County Third Saturday Democratic Breakfast will be Mayor Tyrone Garner and state Rep. Louis Ruiz, D- 31st Dist.

The breakfast will open at 8:15 a.m. and the program will begin about 9 a.m. March 19 at Las Islas VIP Sports Bar, 4929 State Ave., Kansas City, Kansas.

Breakfast will be available for $10 per person; the charge will be $7 for students and those on limited incomes. A breakfast sponsor has offered to pay for students attending for the first time.

This will be the 18th anniversary of the breakfast. A collection will be taken up to help with refugees from Ukraine. Proceeds from the sale of “Stop Gerrymandering” and Ukraine flag buttons will be donated to the refugees’ charity.

KCKCC Art Gallery plans Rangoli demonstration

by Kelly Rogge, KCKCC public information manager

The Kansas City Kansas Community College Art Gallery is holding “The Art of Rangoli” in celebration of its upcoming exhibition “Experience India.”

Artist Kaushika Panchal of KP Artworks will be doing a demonstration from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 22 during “The Art of Rangoli” event.

The event will be in the KCKCC Art Gallery, which is on the lower level of the Jewell Student Center on the KCKCC Main Campus, 7250 State Ave. All events and exhibitions are free and open to the public.

The “Experience India” exhibition is on display now through March 31 featuring artworks from Kalpana Lalgudi and her students from the school of piKalsso Art.

Rangoli is a popular folk art where people make colorful designs on the floor in their house. The design is created using colored rangoli powders, ground rice powder, flowers and diyas. The purpose of rangoli is beyond decoration. It represents the happiness, positivity and liveliness of a household and is intended to welcome Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and good luck.

From early petroglyphs to a flourishing contemporary art scene, India’s vibrant artistic legacy is the result of a variety of cultural influences. The diversity of art from this area, which includes anything created in the historical regions of modern-day India, Bangladesh and areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, is reflected in vivid, distinct and enchanting styles that represent many different civilizations. Because some of the world’s major religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam either began or flourished in India, much of Indian art is based on the religious, cultural and architectural subject matter.