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OCTOBER CONNECTING EVENTS NEW TO TBC? HARVESTERS Join us for volunteer Pizza With at our a Pastor community (details on food page 1) distribution 11:45 AM Sunday, October 4 8 AM Tuesday, October 13 WOMEN’S MEN’S EXPRESSO BREAKFAST hear how God connect with is moving in other guys the lives of over a hearty TBC women breakfast 7 PM Tuesday, October 13 7:30 AM Saturday, October 17 Visit DiscoverTBC.com for details on these and other upcoming opportunities to connect! Connect magazine is a publication of Our thanks to the volunteers Topeka Bible Church, 1135 SW College who contributed to this issue: Avenue, Topeka, KS 66604, 785-234-5545. Barry Benteman (photography) Please email editorial inquiries to Don Brent (photography) Teresa Jenkins, [email protected]. Todd Fertig (writing) Parker Robb (photography)

CONNECT OCTOBER 2020 IN THIS ISSUE In this month’s issue, you’re going to meet 2 Planting the Seeds two great TBC couples who model The Clarks invest in Student Ministrry teens very different ways of and their own tiny disciples at home serving the Lord. Their stories are a beautiful example of how God 8 “Coincidence? uses us – regardless of where we’re at in I Think Not.” life – for His purposes and for His glory. Whether it’s leading a team as they put a How God used an unusual series of events roof on a new church in Haiti, or sitting on to draw the Mammolitis closer to Him the floor with a group of middle schoolers to connect and grow their faith. 14 Connection Points: Last month’s Sunday message series What’s the most impactful Bible study challenged us to get UNCOMFORTABLE you’ve ever done? – in our ministry, our prayers, and more. I challenge you to read the stories of the 16 Connecting With: Mammolitis and the Clarks, then think Will Scott prayerfully about how God wants you to push outside your comfort zone to help build His Kingdom. Jim Congdon Lead Pastor NEW TO TBC? Join us for pizza on October 4! We’re so glad you’re here ... welcome! We know it can be difficult to find a good fit in a new church home. Our next welcome event, Pizza With a Pastor, is at 11:45 AM Sunday, October 4 (after the 10:30 service). This is a casual, get-to-know you event where you can ask your questions about our church community. To RSVP, email Teresa Jenkins at [email protected] today!

Blain and Lindy Clark with their children (left to right) Lucy, Caroline, Boone, and Liam. 2 CONNECT • OCTOBER 2020

Whether they’re working with middle and senior high students or discipling their own young children, Blain and Lindy Clark prove that it isn’t always the harvest that matters, sometimes it’s just about Planting the Seeds Lindy Clark crouches to join a group of high school girls who are seated on the floor. She shifts the one-year-old in her arms to sit cross-legged on the carpet to discuss homework, social media, and teenage boys. Having shepherded the couple’s other three children to their respective Sunday school classes, Blain Clark jumps into a carpet ball battle with a group of young boys. For the moment, he pushes out of his mind the responsibilities at work and home to focus on banter that ranges from sports to video games. Such is a typical Sunday for the Clarks as they minister to Topeka Bible Church high schoolers. The Clarks are not Super Youth Ministers. They’re not Super Parents, and they’re not Super Spouses. They are just an average couple trying to faithfully serve the church where they were called more than a decade ago. Protective parents might cringe at the story of how Blain and Lindy first met. At just 18 years old, Lindy drove cross-country to meet up with a group of teenage Topeka boys she’d met at a Christian music festival. She had befriended the entire group, but once she reached Topeka, recent-high-school-graduate Blain caught her attention. “That’s probably not the smartest thing I could have done!” Lindy said, looking back with a laugh. “I can’t believe my dad let me do it. But that’s how we met.” continued OCTOBER 2020 • CONNECT 3

Blain had recently been recruited to help don’t really want to go to church today.’ But handle a rowdy bunch of junior high boys in because he was so faithful and such a good the TBC youth group. The commitment was leader, we kept up the commitment.” supposed to be short term, but 14 years later, he continues to work with the program. The youth leaders married in 2008, had their first child a few years later, and never Lindy saw character traits in Blain that stopped volunteering. made her believe he would make a good “I feel that you won’t spouse. After getting Like the boy with get tied into a church to know each other or a group of people long-distance for a year, Lindy moved the bread and fish, until you start to serve,” to Topeka to attend Blain said. “You can Washburn and find what you’re able go to church as many out where their times as you want to relationship was to offer may seem and shake hands and headed. say ‘Hello.’ But until That’s when Lindy really small, but you serve, you’ll always God can use it. be asking, ‘What did I get out of that?’ instead had to decide if of ‘What did I give?’ volunteering with the youth group was a You’ll never have that sense of community.” good fit for her. Being a newcomer to TBC, she struggled to match Blain’s enthusiasm. Along with parenthood and ministry, Blain juggles working as a firefighter, owning his “The hard part was that Blain is Mr. own landscaping business, and keeping up Consistent. He’s Mr. Faithful,” Lindy said. a couple of other small businesses. Lindy “He does things even when he doesn’t feel helps with the businesses and manages the like it. Whereas if I was tired, I thought, ‘I Clark household. As their family and TBC STUDENT MINISTRY Our students meet Sunday mornings in the College Avenue Basement. 9 AM - High schoolers • 10:30 AM - Middle schoolers Sunday mornings include hangout time, a large group lesson, and small group gatherings. Students also meet Wednesday nights from 6:30-8 PM for hangout time, worship, games, a choice of studies, and small group discussion time. If you’d like to be part of this important ministry, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]. 4 CONNECT • OCTOBER 2020

With her 17-month-old daughter Lucy in her lap, Lindy leads a small group discussion with her high school girls on Sunday morning. businesses have grown, their involvement point you’re at, keep going, and it might with the youth had to adjust. look different at various points of your life. “We’ve changed how we serve as we’ve had But don’t stop when it’s not ideal.” our own kids,” Blain said. “We can’t be up Blain views his job as a fireman as another late and be at everything like we used to. extension of his ministry. But we’ve found a smaller niche, and we “When you’re in public service, loving the use social media to stay connected. And we community is why you do what you do,” also are training the young leaders of the Blain said. “I love pouring into people, program. We’re no longer the 19-year-old helping people, and serving them when leaders who are cool and can go all the time. they’re in need. As a Christian, it’s a really The kids see me as a dad now.” unique opportunity to help people when Looking back on the evolution of her role they’re in a very vulnerable place. When with the youth. Lindy has learned people are hurting, being able to say volunteering doesn’t require unlimited something to comfort them is cool.” free time. He recently took on a new role with the “Like the boy with the bread and fish, what Topeka Fire Department peer support team, you’re able to offer may seem really small, helping his fellow firefighters handle trauma but God can use it,” Lindy said. “Even if related to their work as well as issues in their my gift is staying home to watch the kids own personal life. Lindy pointed out that so Blain can go to a youth event, that’s not alcoholism and suicide rates are high among going to be seen, but that’s what I can give at firefighters. that moment. “Men, in particular, tend to internalize “Even if you find yourself in a small role, everything and try to deal with it being consistent in that small role makes the themselves,” Lindy said. “So I think it’s really difference,” Lindy said. “Jump in at whatever continued OCTOBER 2020 • CONNECT 5

that’s ok,” Blain said. “It’s a delicate balance to make sure we’re giving everyone what they need. We check in with each other to make sure that the other person isn’t feeling neglected or resentful or overwhelmed.” When she first started volunteering with the youth group, Lindy said she didn’t always feel motivated to do it. She advised making a commitment that overrides emotions or tangible results. “If you’re thinking about getting involved with (a program at church), you should think about it for the long haul,” Lindy said. Lindy answered the call to be a co-host “There would be weeks and months and for last year’s LOL Christmas comedy even years where we were investing in kids night for women. Good news – she’ll that we weren’t necessarily seeing the fruit be returnring this year! of our labor. But you have to just continue cool that Blain is part of the group that tries planting the seeds and trust that God will to spot the warning signs and help their reap that harvest.” coworkers get the help ...you have to Lindy said there have that they need. just continue been times when It’s an opportunity to planting the seeds she arrived to help be Christ to the lead the youth group people he works with with a baby backpack and forge those on her back and a genuine connections.” toddler in a car seat. The Clarks work hard and trust that She advised parents to balance their to take an honest look at their schedule and commitment to work God will reap be realistic about their and ministry, family time, and personal that harvest. commitment level. sanity. Lindy credits “Pray about it,” Lindy Blain with being a present and attentive father when he’s at home. Blain said he said. “Ask the Lord to have an opportunity show itself. Be open to saying ‘Yes,’ and be wants to model faithfulness and service to open to saying ‘No.’ Ask what kind of his own children without missing out on time restraints or investments are expected, time with them. and then look at your schedule to make an honest assessment of what you can manage. “This is a community, and to serve that community, it’s a bit of a sacrifice. And 6 CONNECT • OCTOBER 2020

Just days before the global pandemic began to impact non-essential travel, Blain (front row, fifth from the left) helped lead a student ministry trip to Lost Valley in Colorado. “Sometimes, you have to look at what’s on Above all, don’t miss out on the reward that your plate at home and prioritize. We can comes from volunteering, she said. “We just have too much stuff, too many love it so much, we realize that we are getting responsibilities. The more we can take more out of it than we’re putting in,” Lindy off our calendar that isn’t really a priority, said. “The relationships and energy that we having a clear vision opens up times when put into the youth group, the Lord gives us we can say ‘Yes.’” way more back.” OCTOBER 2020 • CONNECT 7

After numerous instances when God showed He was working in the lives of an atheist and his praying wife, their new mantra became “Coincidence? I think not.” Carol Mammoliti was raised in the Lutheran faith in her hometown of Centerville, Iowa. As a young bride living with her husband, Chris, in rural Mississippi, she no longer attended church. “But Jesus was always with me,” Carol said. “All along, I kept feeling like I needed to get back to church.” Although Carol had a degree in fashion merchandising, her first job during their time in Mississippi was to help Chris, who was running a catfish farm. Chris, a fisheries biologist, landed a job with the Kansas Fish & Game Department at their fish hatchery in Pratt. Born in Kansas City and raised throughout the Midwest, Chris had also been raised in the Lutheran church, but walked away at 15 and decided to follow science instead. “I didn’t think God was real, so I followed that science trail into college. When Carol and I met, I was a full-blown atheist.” Looking back to when they met in 1978, Chris admits that if Carol had been walking with the Lord back then, “She would never have paid any attention to me. And I would never have paid any attention to her.” In Pratt, the Mammolitis had their first child, Kirk. Carol was attending Pratt Bible Church. “God kept pulling me back,” Carol said. “I would just walk away for months or even a year at a time, and something would pull me back. The shift happened when I had our son. I recognized that I was responsible for his spiritual growth and understanding and that just changed everything. I wanted him to know, without a shadow of a doubt, that there was a God and that Jesus was his Savior.” Carol decided to turn away from some of her life choices and submit more fully to God. “I got out my Bible one afternoon and got into First and Second Kings, and I remember devouring that,” Carol said. continued 8 CONNECT • OCTOBER 2020

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Chris Mammoliti had no idea that his One Sunday, Marlin was teaching a class and wife, Carol, had been praying vigorously started talking about people who believe in for him to become a follower of Christ, evolution. What he said didn’t settle well with and imploring nearly everyone she knew Chris. He began to wrestle with it and with to do the same. God finally answered a lot of other questions of faith. Chris told those prayers. Carol, who felt like it was an answer to prayer. “I would say to Chris, ‘Well, honey, you “I couldn’t get enough. I got so excited about know that’s not a coincidence,’ and so this the stories I was reading. That set the fire for little mantra started – ‘Coincidence? I think me. I remember that afternoon vividly.” not.’ That would come up at least three or As their son got older, he questioned why four times a week, and Chris would just roll his dad didn’t go to church, and that began his eyes and walk out of the room.” to create friction in the marriage. Chris A few weeks later, Chris decided to decided to start going to church. “It’s a lot approach Marlin with his questions. As easier to enjoy a Chiefs game when your he walked out the door, Carol dropped to wife’s not mad at you,” he joked. her knees to give thanks. Chris returned a Chris and Carol’s next-door neighbor, short time later with the shocking news that Marlin, “just happened” to be the pastor at Marlin – their pastor, neighbor, and friend – Pratt Bible Church. “He would never talk had been killed in a head-on collision. After to me about Christ,” Chris said. “We talked Chris told Carol, he paused and asked, “Is about the Chiefs and the Royals. We were that a coincidence?” just neighbors. I came to really respect him.” Looking back, the Mammolitis can see that Meanwhile, Carol was fervently praying for even in that tragedy, God used it for Chris’ faith. She asked her friends, people something good. Marlin’s mentors came to she knew from church, “anybody at all who I town to help fill the gap left by his death. thought had a relationship with the Lord” to They and Marlin’s wife circled around Chris pray for her husband. and tried to help answer his questions. But Chris still struggled to believe. “God kept putting me in weird situations,” Chris said. Prior to a trip to Kansas City to meet up at a bar with a few cousins, Chris thought he might bring up the subject of God and see what his cousins thought. When the trip happened a few months later, Chris forgot what he wanted to ask, but one of his cousins said, “What do you guys think about God?” Chris was stunned. The discussion continued from bar to bar, engaging bartenders and waitresses along the way. Most of the cousins who we re in that conversation are now believers. Coincidence? 10 CONNECT • OCTOBER 2020

Another Sunday morning, the pastor was Fast forward several years, and the talking about the power of prayer. Chris Mammolitis (who by then had a daughter, tested God with a silent prayer. “I had a very Sarah), moved to Topeka. Chris worked foul mouth,” Chris said, “so I prayed that in environmental consulting and natural God would make it go away. And it did. Just resource management after leaving his like that.” position with the state. Carol noticed the change in her husband, The couple connected with Topeka Bible and as soon as she heard that he had prayed Church – a huge church compared to their to God, she felt a surge of encouragement. little Bible church in Pratt. Carol began It would be three years from the time Chris volunteering in the office and was soon started attending church until he came to hired as the receptionist, where she worked Christ. He withheld for over seven years. it from Carol because Since coming to TBC, he was afraid his heart God broke down Chris and Carol have would change, and he the things that served in many ways. didn’t want to Chris is the chairman disappoint her. supported my world of our elder board. “God broke down the view – science, He’s also been an things that Awana leader, Camp supported my world naturalism, Catapult in the Wild view –” Chris said. leader, and Safety “science, naturalism, everything that can Team member. Chris everything that can be explained through be explained through and Carol lead the evolutionary history. Seekers adult Sunday He just broke it down evolutionary history. class as a team. Carol and started showing has facilitated Bible Himself to me through studies and is a mentor in a multi-generational small group. other people. He revealed to me that there are things outside In 2010, Brett Durbin from Trash this natural, physical realm. ” With that Mountain Project (TMP) came to TBC to new understanding, as Chris began to read speak about his organization and what they the Bible, he was open to the supernatural were doing in Cambodia. TMP works to things in Old Testament stories. develop Christ-centered environments for children and families living in trash dump After the death of Chris’ stepdad (about communities worldwide. They impact two months after Chris trusted Christ), nutrition, discipleship, education, and other Carol asked him about the change that she’d aspects of life in these communities. observed in him. “It was crystal clear that I had to go do “Have you accepted Christ?” she asked. He something,” Chris said. At lunch, Chris responded that he had, and her first reaction asked Carol what she thought about the was surprising. presentation. She replied that they “I was so mad! I said, ‘You have known this needed to go. for two months, and you haven’t told me?!?’ continued But then he explained his reluctance, and I understood,” Carol said. OCTOBER 2020 • CONNECT 11

time to follow the call to serve with TMP. The Mammolitis have met several inspiring people on the When Chris finally got many mission trips they’ve taken. Carol said that Marivic his meeting with Bret, (second from left), is like Mother Teresa to her community Bret exclaimed, “You are in Payatas, Philippines. “She is selfless and absolutely 100% the guys who sold your loves the Lord and serves him with all her heart,” Carol said. house to serve with Trash Mountain Project!” The men talked about Chris’s qualifications. Brett told Chris that TMP was developing an aquaponics program, and he needed someone to direct that effort. Chris accepted the challenge, and later, Carol was hired as the office manager at TMP. The Mammolitis didn’t act on their feelings Chris looks back over his until after TBC Lead Pastor Jim Congdon time with TMP and Haiti Lifeline (where he returned from a TMP trip to the Dominican has been the director since May 2019 – yes, Republic and shared about his experience it’s another “coincidence” story). He said there. Again, Chris and Carol felt drawn to that it is challenging to change the poverty help. Chris emailed Brett to ask for an situations in the places where these organiza- appointment the next time he was in town. tions serve. Meanwhile, the couple started looking at “I’ve probably been changed more by the their finances and realized they needed work than any impact I’ve ever had there,” to change their situation to support their Chris said. He shared a time when he was desire to work with TMP. Now visiting with a Honduran pastor he’d empty-nesters, they downsized to a smaller befriended. Chris made a comment about home (God really started showing off with bringing Christ to the community. The another “coincidence” here – you’ll have to pastor’s reply was a humbling moment ask Chris and Carol yourself!). for Chris. Chris and Carol were in a small group with “Do you really think that you’re bringing the Mark Ruelle, who was then the CFO of Creator to His creation?” the pastor said. Westar Energy. Mark mentioned a new Carol adds that most of the people she’s met position that might be of interest to Chris. who have traveled overseas for mission trips He was offered the job and later found out with the intention of making a difference that the person who wrote the position end up coming back, themselves changed description knew Chris and had him in mind for the experience. She’s now back at TMP when he wrote it. Another coincidence? They after working a while with Chris at Haiti think not. The Westar position allowed the Lifeline. In addition to her administrative Mammolitis the income and paid vacation work there, Carol feels an additional 12 CONNECT • OCTOBER 2020

said. “But international ‘Do you really think that you’re organizations can’t visit to help build and serve.” He bringing the Creator to His added that Haiti Lifeline is Creation?’ the pastor said. still getting materials to the locals in Haiti, so the work on the ground is ongoing, even in the pandemic. mission to routinely pray and write devotionals for the staff. If travel restrictions continue, Chris thinks that organizations Haiti Lifeline has three areas of focus. like Haiti Lifeline will have to pivot to The One Body Project builds up the body identify, develop, and equip local leaders to of Christ in Haiti through a partnership continue the work. between Christians there and here in the US. They erect churches (which are really “We may be moving to a spot where we’re community centers that serve as schools empowering the Haitians to do what we’ve been doing,” he said. and places for medical care). They also build wells and develop disciples through local church leaders. The Lifeline Center for Children cares for the underserved and overlooked children of Haiti. And the Oasis Project, which Chris thinks is the most challenging work that Haiti Lifeline does, serves young adults who have aged out of orphanages by building their skills, confidence and self-sufficiency. Through their work with A moment from a mission trip in Honduras. The TMP and Haiti Lifeline, the women were preparing dinner for their men and Mammolitis have taken they were getting anxious because the mission team several mission trips to the was in the way. When they brought out a bucket of Dominican Republic, the pea pods, Carol (in the green shirt) jumped in and got Philippines, Honduras, and to work shelling. She didn’t speak Spanish, but Haiti (Chris alone has been “A smile and two willing hands speak in any overseas more than 30 times). language,” Carol said. But that travel ceased when the global pandemic hit. “The pandemic hasn’t necessarily changed everyday life in Haiti,” Chris OCTOBER 2020 • CONNECT 13

CONNECTION POINTS We asked TBCers: “What’s the most impactful Bible study you’ve ever done?” My former worship pastor in Wichita, Ray Lungwitz, led a Sunday school class on Why We Do and Say What We Do and Say During Worship. It covered liturgy and Scripture. It was the late 80s and it was the very first time I became consciously aware that my music at church was NOT a gig or a performance, but quite simply WORSHIP. This was only a couple years after I had left the music biz professionally (and the perils of “living in bars”) and spent a couple years also re-learning what it meant to be a believer and follower of Jesus. I gained a whole new vocabulary and attitude regarding worship. – Danl Blackwood A study called The A Woman’s Heart: Christian Home was God’s Dwelling Place the first in-depth by Beth Moore. It’s women’s Bible study about the building I had ever taken when of the Old Testament we joined TBC in 1996. It tabernacle, and its literally saved my marriage. significance in the lives of believers today. Loved it!! – Jan Morgan The Letter to the – Martha Hochuli Romans by William Barclay. I used this There have been many book for personal Bible studies and study in my late 20’s small groups that have led to growth after growing up in over the years. One the church. This book helped me understand grace. When I finished moment that resonates the study, I started over and went with me is the joy and excitement through the book again! I experienced when attending Wednesday evening men’s study – Claire Phillips at TBC and learned about propitiation (Christ’s dying on the cross was the atonement for our sins). I couldn’t believe the freedom we have in Christ. – TJ McDaniel 14 CONNECT • OCTOBER 2020

It is a Bible study on Experiencing God: the book of Nehemiah Knowing and Doing that was part of my the Will of God by instructor training for Henry and Richard Revelation Wellness. Blackaby and Claude The study was used to King. TBC did it during a show how building my own short-term Sunday school class ministry is comparable to the several years ago, and I am rebuilding of the Temple of constantly looking back at the Jerusalem. workbook and revisiting it. – Heather Mullins – Megan Steinebach It’s very difficult to narrow it down to one! Beth Moore’s Daniel study is at the top of the list! The Daniel study helped me truly see the faithfulness of God to Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, during the exile period. That builds my trust in God seeing us through the future, end times events. He was faithful then, and He will be just as faithful in the end times! – Patty Diliberto Two of my professors at Patty Diliberto’s Bryan College taught Chronological Bible me to study the Bible Study opened up my for myself, rather than eyes to the whole just a book or topical Bible. Followed by Beth study. Having the ability Moore’s Daniel study. to look at the text and discover what – Katie Kaberline it is saying is very important. The Promise by Tony – Larry Kelley Evans. It’s about the purpose and A Precept Ministries importance of the study on Revelation Holy Spirit in a lead by Bob Durbin and The Feasts of the believer’s life. Lord by Mark Biltz. It – Kerry Bolze was a study on the OCTOBER 2020 • CONNECT 15 appointed feasts of the Lord in Leviticus 23. – Debi Parker

CTING WITH:CONNE Look behind the cameras at TBC on Sunday morning, and you might find OCCUPATION: Will Scott. Will joined our Young Adults Will is in training to run the distribution department at Ogden Ministry in February 2019 and has Publications, where he has worked branched out to serve in Awana and for more than seven years. now the Tech Team. MINISTRIES: In 2018, Will had gained a lot Tech Team, has served in Awana of weight, and his health was and been active in Young Adults declining. He started working LIKES TO: out with a trainer, with whom Shoot pool, cheer for the Denver he shared some of his personal Broncos, Work out, video gaming struggles. The trainer suggested FUN FACT: Will meet with another man at Will and his mother enjoy the gym – TBC Executive Pastor building gingerbread trains Doug Will. After getting acquainted, together at Christmastime. Doug encouraged Will to plug into 16 CONNECT • OCTOBER 2020 TBC’s Young Adults group. Before growing in his relationship with Christ, Will struggled with alcohol, drugs, and other addictions. “I used those things to cover up my feelings,” Will said. “I didn’t realize the harm I was doing to myself until I started coming to church.” Seeking the truth has always been important to Will. Digging into the Bible helped him realize the harm he’d been doing to himself. He joined TBC’s Conquer men’s accountability group and credits his peers with helping him address his trauma. “They helped me find a positive way to deal with my feelings,” Will said. Will is still growing in his faith. He came to Christ and Doug Will baptized him in July of 2019. Over the past two years, Will has prayed for reconciliation between himself and his parents (who divorced when Will was eight) and his stepdad. They have made strides in mending their broken relationships, and he is optimistic. Will’s advice to others who struggle with any addiction is to “Trust God. It isn’t easy. But God can use situations to grow you and prepare you for the next step that He has planned for you. He can grab your hand and pull you out of the pit.”

#discovertbc – photos from our feeds TAILGATE AT TEN More than 500 people attended our outdoor church service on Sunday, August 23. This event combined the ministry “show and tell” of Discovery Sunday with the fun and food of our Spring Fling (which we didn’t get to have this year). It was the first time in months that the entire congregation had the opportunity to be together in the same place at the same time. BAPTISMS Mea Bias (left, getting baptized by Children’s Pastor Jason Brent) and the Dexter family (right, with Lead Pastor Jim Congdon) were among the 23 individuals who were baptized on Sunday, August 30. Tag your TBC event pics with #discovertbc or email them to Teresa@DiscoverTBC. You might see one of your photos in our next issue! CONNECT WITH US! @discovertbc @topekabiblehurch Topeka Bible Church

UPCOMING EVENTS In this season especially, events are subject to change with little notice. You can stay informed by subscribing to our weekly e-bulletin (sign up at DiscoverTBC.com) or by downloading the Topeka Bible Church app from your favorite mobile marketplace. OCTOBER 2020 4 Pizza With a Pastor 17 Men’s Breakfast 20 13 11:45 AM, Mulvane Parlor 7:30 AM, College Avenue 13 This casual event for Lobby newcomers is perfect for Kick off your weekend with getting answers to your a hearty breakfast and time questions and getting started gathered with other guys as at TBC. RSVP via you hear how God is moving [email protected]. in the lives of TBC men. This month’s speaker: TJ McDaniel. Harvesters Food Distribution Lit Wits Women’s Book Discussion 8 AM, Stormont Vail Events Center parking lot 6:30 PM, College Avenue West Volunteers needed Conference Room Connecting time and snacks Women’s Expresso begin at 6:30; book discussion begins at 7. This month’s 7 PM, Mulvane Lower selection: Before We Were Auditorium Yours by Lisa Wingate. Hear how God is moving in the lives of TBC women. This month’s speakers: Mona Cope & Diana Ellis LADIES! Mark your calendars for our Christmas LOL event Thursday and Friday night, December 3 and 4 Our popular women’s Christmas comedy event will be held in-person AND livestreamed. Plan a party with your friends in your home or via a watch party on Facebook! Ticket distribution begins in November. NEW TO TBC? Text “NEW” to 785-432-4801 and we’ll be happy to help you get connected!