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1860
|
|
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The
Kansas Conference included the State or Territory
of Kansas, and the State of Texas, and the part of New Mexico
east of the Rocky Mountains[i]
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1861
|
|
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Abraham
Lincoln becomes president; Civil War begins[ii];
Kansas Statehood; Kansas
women were given the right to vote in school elections, far earlier than in
most states.[iii]
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1862
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|
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1863
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|
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Battle of Gettysburg[iv]
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1864
|
|
|
Methodist
Episcopal Church establishes Church Extension Society[v];
Methodist Episcopal Church gave full clergy rights to Blacks & began
arranging separate conferences for Blacks[vi];
The Kansas Conference was reduced to only the State of Kansas. [vii]
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|
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1865
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|
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Lincoln assassinated[viii]
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1866
|
|
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Methodist
Episcopal Church establishes Freedmen's Aid Society[ix]
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1867
|
|
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Drew
Theological Seminary in NJ founded[x]
|
US purchases
Alaska from Russia[xi]
|
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1868
|
|
|
Kansas
Conference was expanded again to include the State of Kansas
and the Indian Territory. [xii]
|
|
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1869
|
|
|
First
woman granted a Methodist preachers license[xiii]
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Suez Canal opened[xiv]
|
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1870
|
|
|
Colored
Methodist Episcopal church founded out of Methodist Episcopal Church, South[xv];
Methodist Episcopal, South began allowing equal lay delegate (men)
representation at General Conference[xvi]
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|
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1871
|
|
|
Union
Bible Seminary opened by United Brethren[xvii]
|
Jul --The Santa Fe Railroad extended its line to Newton, Kansas, which
then succeeded Abilene as the terminus of the Chisholm Trail. The cattle boom at Newton
only lasted a year for the railroad was soon extended to Wichita.
Aug
--During this period there was considerable violence in the saloons and dance
halls at Newton,
with nine men being shot down in one shootout. [xviii]
|
|
1872
|
|
|
Methodists
told to stay clear of dancing, games of chance, attending theaters, horse
races & circuses - United Brethren added tobacco and running races[xix]
|
A branch
of the Santa Fe Railroad arrived at Wichita,
and the town "busted-wide-open." A sign was erected at the
outskirts of town proclaiming: "Everything goes in Wichita."[xx]
|
|
1873
|
|
|
Young
people's societies formed with attention on youth[xxi];
Union Biblical Institute, later named [Garrett]-Evangelical Theological
Seminary, founded.[xxii]
|
Severe
depression[xxiii]
|
|
1874
|
|
Initial
Sunday School meetings in one room of Mount Hope
school[xxiv]
|
|
Grasshopper
plague (Rocky Mountain Locust) visited Kansas.
The grasshopper invasion devastated crops (corn) in Kansas and many people lost nearly
everything. Aid (clothes, provisions and money) was sent from the East to
help the people get through the hard winter.[xxv];
The Women's Christian Temperance Union is formed[xxvi]
|
|
1875
|
|
|
Southern
Methodism's first seminary at Vanderbilt[xxvii]
|
|
|
1876
|
|
Mt. Hope
Methodist Episcopal Church organized by Rev. Sam Mackie from Savannah,
Missouri[xxviii];
Kansas was split into two Conferences along
an east/west line down the middle of the state creating the South Kansas
Conference of which Mt.
Hope was a part. [xxix]
|
Union
Biblical Institute founded by Evangelical Association[xxx];
First woman to get a seminary degree[xxxi];
Joint Conference at Cape May NJ between Methodist Episcopal Church and
Methodist Episcopal Church, South[xxxii]
|
Battle of Little Big Horn[xxxiii]
|
|
1877
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|
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1878
|
|
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1879
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|
|
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1880
|
|
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Methodist
Protestant church ordains first woman[xxxiv]
|
An
amendment to the Kansas Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, or
gift of all forms of intoxicating liquor. Kansas became the first state to pass this
amendment.[xxxv]
|
|
1881
|
|
|
United
Brethren take temperance stance; Methodists of the World ecumenical
conference in London[xxxvi]
|
President
James Garfield assassinated;
Chester
A. Arthur becomes president[xxxvii]
|
|
1882
|
|
|
|
|
|
1883
|
|
May 23 –
Mount Hope Methodist Episcopal Church Charter issued[xxxviii];
July 4 – Cornerstone for Church building laid; Samuel McKibben, pastor[xxxix]
|
First
woman graduate of Union Biblical Seminary[xl]
|
|
|
1884
|
|
Kansas was split into four
Conferences. Mount
Hope was part of the
Southwest Kansas Conference. [xli]
|
General
Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church takes temperance stance[xlii]
|
|
|
1885
|
|
W. R.
Rollingston, pastor[xliii];
Ladies Aid Society organized, Oct. 8[xliv];
Centennial Methodist Church
organized[xlv]
|
|
First
rabies vaccination - Louis Pasteur[xlvi];
Grover Cleveland becomes President[xlvii]
|
|
1887
|
|
C. A.
Smith, pastor[xlviii]
|
|
|
|
1888
|
|
First
parsonage constructed[xlix];
George W. Irwin, pastor[l]
|
Women
denied seats at Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference[li]
|
|
|
1889
|
|
Centennial
Church Ladies’ Aid Society organized[lii]
|
United
Brethren ordain first woman[liii];
Epworth League for youth began[liv]
|
Benjamin
Harrison becomes President[lv]
|
|
1890
|
|
|
|
Massacre
at Wounded Knee, SD[lvi]
|
|
1891
|
|
|
Conflict
leads to founding of United
Evangelical Church[lvii]
|
|
|
1892
|
|
A.M.
Gibbons, pastor[lviii]
|
Methodist
Protestants allow women full lay rights[lix]
|
|
|
1893
|
|
W. B.
Barton, pastor[lx]
|
|
Grover Cleveland re-elected[lxi];
Severe depression[lxii]
|
|
1894
|
|
Frank
McCormick, pastor[lxiii]
|
|
|
|
1895
|
|
|
First
female member of an Evangelical annual conference[lxiv]
|
|
|
1896
|
|
D. F.
Irwin, pastor[lxv]
|
|
|
|
1897
|
|
|
|
Wm.
McKinley - President[lxvi]
|
|
1898
|
|
|
|
Spanish -
American War[lxvii]
|
|
1899
|
|
F. K.
Pedrick, pastor[lxviii]
|
|
|
|
1900
|
|
J.N.
Roberts, pastor[lxix]
|
Women
allowed full lay rights in Methodist Episcopal Church[lxx]
|
|
|
1901
|
|
Woman's
Home Missionary Society organized[lxxi]
|
|
Wm.
McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt assumes office[lxxii]
|
|
1902
|
|
Kitchen
added to parsonage[lxxiii]
|
|
|
|
1903
|
|
Lecture
room added to church[lxxiv];
A. H. Ponath, pastor[lxxv]
|
|
Wright
brothers fly[lxxvi]
|
|
1904
|
|
Antioch congregation from six miles southwest of town united with
Mt. Hope[lxxvii]
|
|
|
|
1905
|
|
C.E.
Mann, pastor[lxxviii]
|
|
|
|
1906
|
|
Two story
barn and horse stable completed[lxxix]
|
|
San Francisco earthquake and fire[lxxx]
|
|
1907
|
|
|
Methodist
Federation for Social Service formed[lxxxi]
|
|
|
1908
|
|
|
Methodist
Episcopal General Conference adopts Social Creed[lxxxii]
|
Model T
introduced by Ford Motor Company[lxxxiii]
|
|
1909
|
|
E. C.
Pollard, pastor[lxxxiv]
|
|
Henry
Ford begins assembly line production;
Wm. H. Taft becomes President[lxxxv];
Robert Perry reaches North Pole[lxxxvi]
|
|
1910
|
|
Parsonage
remodeled[lxxxvii]
|
|
|
|
1911
|
|
Windstorm
blew spire off church
|
|
|
|
1912
|
|
W. J.
Barron, pastor[lxxxviii]
|
|
Titanic
sinks; Kansas
votes complete suffrage for women; women gained the right to vote.[lxxxix]
|
|
1913
|
|
|
|
Woodrow
Wilson becomes president[xc];
17th Amendment - Income Tax[xci]
|
|
1914
|
|
Centennial
Church Women’s Home Missionary Society organized[xcii]
|
|
The Great
War begins; Arthur Capper becomes first native Kansan elected to the office
of Governor.[xciii]
|
|
1915
|
|
J. L.
Glass, pastor[xciv]
|
|
|
|
1916
|
|
South
Kansas Conference ceased to exist, uniting with the Kansas Conference to
cover the eastern part of the state[xcv]
|
|
|
|
1917
|
|
L. E.
Bula, pastor[xcvi]
|
|
US enters
WWI[xcvii];
World War I brought an unprecedented boom in agriculture because of the
demand for food from the warring nations of Europe.
Thousands of previously
uncultivated acres were planted in wheat.[xcviii]
|
|
1918
|
|
|
|
Armistice
from WWI[xcix]
|
|
1919
|
|
J. G.
Johnson, pastor[c]
|
|
First
non-stop flight across Atlantic[ci]
|
|
1920
|
|
Ladies
Aid Society divided into No. 1 and No. 2 (p.19) [cii]
|
First
black bishops elected and a woman granted local preacher status in the
Methodist Episcopal Church.[ciii]
|
League of Nations formed[civ];18th
Amendment regarding prohibition ratified[cv];
19th Amendment gives women the vote[cvi]
|
|
1921
|
|
|
|
Warren G.
Harding becomes President[cvii]
|
|
1922
|
|
|
Methodist
Episcopal South finally gives full lay rights to women[cviii];
Reuniting of United Evangelicals and Evangelical Association into Evangelical Church[cix]
|
|
|
1923
|
|
E. F.
Julian, pastor[cx]
|
|
Harding
dies; Calvin Coolidge becomes President[cxi]
|
|
1924
|
|
Funds
accumulated for church remodel[cxii]
|
|
Lenin
dies; Stalin succeeds him[cxiii]
|
|
1925
|
|
S. B.
Handley, pastor[cxiv];
Church building moved over basement & rooms added; Cornerstone reset
Sept. 20[cxv]
|
|
Scopes'
"Monkey Trial"[cxvi]
|
|
1926
|
|
|
|
Talking
Movies introduced in America[cxvii]
|
|
1927
|
|
Eugene
Pennington became choir director[cxviii]
|
|
Charles
Lindbergh makes solo transatlantic flight[cxix]
|
|
1928
|
|
W. H.
Johnson, pastor[cxx]
|
|
Penicillin
discovered[cxxi]
|
|
1929
|
|
C. J.
Kirk, pastor[cxxii]
|
|
Herbert
Hoover becomes President[cxxiii]
Stock
market crash[cxxiv]
|
|
1930
|
|
J. S.
Jones, pastor[cxxv];
Mary Lou Howard became choir director[cxxvi]
|
|
|
|
1931
|
|
|
|
Record KS wheat crop of 240 million
bushels.[cxxvii]
|
|
1932
|
|
Dec. 9,
Church burned, but choir books saved because Mrs. Howard had taken them home[cxxviii]
|
Lay
representation finally allowed at Annual Conferences of Methodist Episcopal
Church[cxxix]
|
Republican
Methodist Alfred M. Landon elected Governor.[cxxx],
[cxxxi];
Kathryn O'Laughlin, first congresswoman elected to represent Kansas.[cxxxii]
|
|
1933
|
|
June 9,
New building dedicated (debt-free); Paul Groom, pastor[cxxxiii]
|
|
Franklin
D Roosevelt Inauguration; Prohibition repealed[cxxxiv];
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor; Prohibition ends[cxxxv]
|
|
1934
|
|
|
|
Adolf
Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany[cxxxvi]
|
|
1935
|
|
|
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church
issue a joint hymnal[cxxxvii]
|
WPA
formed. Social Security Act passed[cxxxviii]
|
|
1936
|
|
L. E.
McNiell, pastor[cxxxix];
Eunice Dow became choir director[cxl];
C. A. Choate, pastor[cxli]
|
|
Alfred M.
Landon ran for president of the U.S. losing to Franklin D.
Roosevelt.[cxlii]
|
|
1937
|
|
Younger
women formed the Dorcas Circle[cxliii]
|
|
|
|
1938
|
|
Bequest
from Katie Moore finished basement[cxliv]
|
|
|
|
1939
|
|
Epworth
League gave 208 quarts of food for the Children’s Home of Newton (later to
become Youthville)[cxlv];
the Kansas Conference comprised the eastern third of the state & the Central
Kansas Conference was made up of the rest of the State[cxlvi]
|
Merger of
Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal Church South, and Methodist
Protestant Church; Six jurisdictions - 5 white and geographical, 1 racial[cxlvii]
|
WWII
begins[cxlviii]
World War
II creates demand for food and prices for Kansas farm products begin to rise.[cxlix]
|
|
1940
|
|
Basil
Johnson, pastor[cl];
Women formed three circles[cli];
Orgatron purchased with Moore estate funds,
piano given in memory of Pearl Crawford Underwood, Black Choir robes with
white collars purchased[clii];
Union Vacation
Bible School
with Federated Church begun[cliii]
|
All
women's groups merged into Women’s Society in Christian Service (WSCS);
Methodist General Conference asks for a negotiated peace; United Brethren
acknowledge possibility of war[cliv]
|
|
|
1941
|
|
Rev.
Elmer Rinkel pastor[clv];
redecorated chancel and added new lectern
|
|
Pearl Harbor attacked; US enters WWII[clvi]
|
|
1942
|
|
|
|
|
|
1943
|
|
|
|
|
|
1944
|
|
F. W.
Dieterick, pastor[clvii]
|
"Crusade
for Christ" established to enhance international collaboration after the
war[clviii]
|
|
|
1945
|
|
|
|
Roosevelt
dies; Truman becomes president[clix];
First atomic bombs hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki[clx]
|
|
1946
|
|
|
Evangelical
& United Brethren merge with no provision for ordination of women[clxi]
|
UN
replaces League of Nations[clxii]
|
|
1947
|
|
|
|
Marshall
Plan for economic recovery in Europe; India
gains independence; Pakistan
formed
|
|
1948
|
|
Samuel
Dutton, pastor[clxiii]
|
World
Council of Churches formed[clxiv]
|
State of Israel
formed[clxv]
|
|
1949
|
|
Barn torn
down and two car garage built ($1200) [clxvi]
|
|
Harry
Truman - President[clxvii]
|
|
1950
|
|
Roy D.
Plott, pastor[clxviii]
|
National
Council of Churches formed[clxix]
|
|
|
1951
|
|
Nov. 15
& 18 Diamond Jubilee celebrated; Leonard Plott made and donated Baptismal
Font[clxx]
|
|
|
|
1952
|
|
Many
transfer from Centennial Church to Mount Hope[clxxi]
|
Methodist
Federation for Social Service disempowered due to "communist"
appearances[clxxii]
|
Elizabeth
II, Queen of England[clxxiii]
Dwight D.
Eisenhower becomes first Kansan to be elected as President of the United States.[clxxiv]
|
|
1953
|
|
White
Altar and Lectern cloths donated by Cauble and Ferrell families in gratitude
for the improved health of the twins[clxxv];
J. O. Himes, pastor[clxxvi]
|
|
Dwight D.
Eisenhower - President[clxxvii]
|
|
1954
|
|
Eldon, W.
Smoot, pastor[clxxviii];
June 16 -Centennial
Church’s 70th
Anniversary celebrated[clxxix]
|
|
|
|
1955
|
|
|
|
|
|
1956
|
|
"Christ
in the Garden" painted by Ida Graves[clxxx]
|
Women
allowed ordination in Methodist
Church[clxxxi]
|
Soviet
Premier Khrushchev denounces Stalin[clxxxii]
|
|
1957
|
|
|
|
Race
riots in southern US; Soviet Union launches
Sputnik[clxxxiii]
|
|
1958
|
|
|
|
US
launches Explorer I; space race begins[clxxxiv]
|
|
1959
|
|
|
|
|
|
1960
|
|
Rev. Ray
Grant[clxxxv]
led parsonage fund-raising and construction[clxxxvi]
|
|
|
|
1961
|
|
New
parsonage completed ($15,000) [clxxxvii]
|
|
Berlin wall is built[clxxxviii];
John F. Kennedy - President[clxxxix]
|
|
1962
|
|
|
|
Cuban
missile crisis; Telstar communications satellite launched[cxc]
|
|
1963
|
|
|
|
President
Kennedy assassinated; Lyndon Johnson becomes President[cxci]
|
|
1964
|
|
Carl E.
Martin, pastor[cxcii]
|
|
Civil
Rights Bill passed; US
involvement in Vietnam
increases[cxciii]
|
|
1965
|
|
Air
Conditioning and New Organ purchased; Vernon Plouch made Memorial Book stand[cxciv]
|
|
US begins
bombing Vietnam[cxcv]
|
|
1966
|
|
Stained
glass over the front door added (also tables and water fountain) [cxcvi]
|
|
June 18 –
F5 Tornado hits Topeka[cxcvii]
|
|
1967
|
|
Stained
Glass Lights put in the sanctuary[cxcviii];
Kenneth Sheane, pastor[cxcix]
|
|
Six-day
war between Arabs and Israelis[cc]
|
|
1968
|
|
Church
re-roofed; beige choir robes purchased41
|
Methodist Church united with Evangelical United
Brethren[cci]
|
ML King
and Robert Kennedy assassinated; Crisis in Northern Ireland[ccii]
|
|
1969
|
|
Red
hymnals, seat cushions and communion pads added[cciii]
|
|
Richard
Nixon becomes President[cciv];
American astronauts on the moon[ccv]
|
|
1970
|
|
|
|
Nixon
announced invasion of Cambodia[ccvi]
|
|
1971
|
|
|
WSCS changed to United Methodist Women (UMW)[ccvii]
|
Communist
China joins UN; Taiwan (Formosa)
expelled[ccviii];
26th Amendment - Right to Vote for 18 Year Olds[ccix]
|
|
1972
|
|
Eugene
Wilson, pastor[ccx]
|
|
|
|
1973
|
|
|
Racially
segregated Annual Conferences eliminated[ccxi]
|
US
withdraws from Vietnam[ccxii];
Arab oil embargo[ccxiii]
|
|
1974
|
|
Phillip
W. Morris, pastor[ccxiv]
|
|
Pres.
Nixon resigns after Watergate; Gerald Ford takes office[ccxv]
|
|
1975
|
|
Basement
renovated[ccxvi];
31 school bags sent to Tijuana Outreach Program[ccxvii];
Nov 16, 1975, Eunice Dow Day to honor her 40 years as organist and choir
director[ccxviii];
Membership 250
|
|
South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam[ccxix]
|
|
1976
|
|
Kitchen
remodeled by UMW[ccxx]
|
|
|
|
1977
|
|
Mark O
Wilkoff, pastor[ccxxi]
|
|
Jimmy
Carter becomes President[ccxxii]
|
|
1978
|
|
|
|
John Paul
II elected[ccxxiii];
Nancy Landon Kassebaum was the first Kansas
woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate for a full term.[ccxxiv]
|
|
1979
|
|
|
|
|
|
1980
|
|
Janet
Sevier, pastor[ccxxv]
|
First
woman elected bishop[ccxxvi]
|
Islamic
republic declared in Iran;
Polish Solidarity Union confronts Communist govt.[ccxxvii]
|
|
1981
|
|
|
|
Ronald
Reagan becomes President[ccxxviii];
First flight of US Space shuttle[ccxxix];
Assassination attempts on Pres. Reagan and Pope fail[ccxxx]
|
|
1982
|
|
|
|
British
reoccupy Falkland Islands[ccxxxi]
|
|
1983
|
|
|
|
|
|
1984
|
|
Charles
R. Claycomb, pastor[ccxxxii]
|
Leontine
T. C. Kelly becomes first African American woman to be elected bishop. Elias
G. Galvan becomes first Hispanic to be elected bishop.[ccxxxiii]
|
|
|
1985
|
|
|
|
|
|
1986
|
|
|
|
|
|
1987
|
|
Nancy
Lambing, pastor[ccxxxiv]
|
|
|
|
1988
|
|
|
|
|
|
1989
|
|
|
The
United Methodist Hymnal is published[ccxxxv]
|
|
|
1990
|
|
Mike
Howard, pastor[ccxxxvi]
|
|
Operation Desert
Shield in Saudi Arabia.[ccxxxvii];
Mar. 13--A large F5 tornado went through Hesston, Harvey
County and other Kansas towns. It was on the ground for
more than two hours. It was at times over a half-mile wide. It caused
millions of dollars of damage and two deaths outside of Hesston. [ccxxxviii]
|
|
1991
|
|
|
|
Apr. 26 Wichita/Andover
F5 tornado was on the ground for about 70 miles, from Clearwater to Cassoday. It was on the
ground for about 50 minutes and destroyed 1,120 houses, damaging 571 more,
injured 302 and left twenty dead.[ccxxxix];
The end
of the U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union)[ccxl]
|
|
1992
|
|
|
|
Apr. 29
Los Angeles Riot[ccxli];
William Clinton elected[ccxlii]
|
|
1993
|
|
Barbara
Perry, pastor[ccxliii]
|
|
|
|
1994
|
|
Bob
Gleason, pastor[ccxliv]
|
|
April -
Branch Davidian standoff in Waco
TX.[ccxlv]
|
|
1995
|
|
|
Charles
Winkler appointed Wichita District Superintendent[ccxlvi]
|
Apr. 19
Bombing of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
in Oklahoma City.[ccxlvii]
|
|
1996
|
|
Vacation Bible School held separately for United Methodist and Federated Churches.[ccxlviii]
|
|
Bob Dole,
from Russell, Kansas,
ran for President of the United
States[ccxlix]
|
|
1997
|
|
Adult
Sunday School class begins delivering and serving monthly meals to United
Methodist Urban Ministries drop-in center. [ccl]
|
|
|
|
1998
|
|
|
|
House
votes to impeach President Clinton.[ccli]
|
|
1999
|
|
|
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May 3 -F4
tornado hits Haysville then Wichita in Sedgwick County causing five deaths and many
injuries.[cclii]
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2000
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General
Conference held in Cleveland,
Ohio[ccliii]
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2001
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Byoung
Lee, pastor[ccliv]
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George W.
Bush becomes President[cclv]
Sept. 11
- Destruction of the World
Trade Center
by terrorist attack[cclvi]
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2002
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Cheryl
Bell appointed Wichita District Superintendent[cclvii]
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2003
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Eugenia
Fultz, pastor[cclviii]
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2004
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Jan. 1,
Donna Wise, pastor[cclix];
New Glass Doors from Memorial funds installed[cclx]
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General
Conference in Pittsburgh
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2005
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Union Vacation Bible School
with Federated Church again instituted[cclxi]
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Kansas
West Conference reduced from seven to six Districts; Mount Hope UMC becomes
part of Wichita West District with Max Clayton District Superintendent[cclxii]
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