These days the moment you step across Linda Weeks’ front door threshold, there’s laughter and joy along with various toys strewn on the carpet. All this activity is due to Linda’s recent adoption of Lola, a ten-week-old cockapoo. Linda and her husband, Rick, had raised two daughters and several family poodles prior to his death […]
2023 Year in Review
Senior Living at Kansas Christian Home | Newton, KS Experience a small portion of all the positive changes and fun we had this year. We’ve done a lot in 2023, but there is still a lot of work to do – and we need your help. How can you get involved in 2024? Monetary Donations […]
Chaplain’s Message: Be Now Our Vision
by KCH Rev. Dr. Diana C. Leaf, Chaplain And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes and his sight was restored. – Acts 9:18 (NRSV) If only it were that easy. Or that final. If only it was a “once-in-a-lifetime” experience. A one-time need for the scales to fall from our eyes. The book […]
Celebrating Wellness this Holiday Season
Several factors, including unrealistic expectations and financial pressures can cause stress and anxiety during the holidays. Fortunately, you can take several steps to maximize your chances of staying healthy and happy during the holiday season. Practice good hygiene It is important to wash hands frequently including before, during, and after preparing food; after blowing the […]
Meet Our Residents: Louise Wiederstein
“In the pattern of God’s purpose we are stitched together in caring and communion: scraps of the lingering past, fragments broken from future’s dearest hopes.” Those words from a poem are reflected in the memories shared by Louise Wiederstein who was born on the family farm in Okeene, Oklahoma and was the only girl growing […]
Meet Our Residents: Ione Toevs
Meet Our Residents: Ione Toevs Bethel Hospital in Newton was where Brad and Clara Conner became the proud parents of Ione Jean Conner on September 3, 1927. Her father worked for the railroad and both he and Clara later in life became residents of Kansas Christian Home, living on campus and transitioning to the healthcare […]
Chaplain’s Message: Your People
“Your People” by KCH Rev. Dr. Diana C. Leaf, Chaplain The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely… they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it!” But Moses implored the […]
Meet Our Residents: Bud W.
Meet Our Residents: Bud W. “Howdy, Bud!” That simple greeting is enough to launch Bud Winters’ telling of his life beginning with his birth on his parents’ farm in Marion, Kansas in 1940. After completing his education through high school, he went with friends to the Army Reserve office and joined the National Guard in […]
Caring for our Skin as We Age
The skin, the largest organ in the human body, performs important functions such as temperature regulation, sensation, and protection. With advancing age, changes occur in the structure and integrity of the skin that diminish the skin’s ability to protect the body. Aging skin is more prone to infection, trauma, and tears. Your skin becomes thinner, […]
What Shall I Render?
A meditation by Kenneth L. Samuel, pastor of Victory for the World Church, Decatur, Georgia. What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me? – Psalm 116:12 (KJV) It’s estimated that approximately one third of the U.S. population, or some 64 million Americans, volunteer each year. This equates to $139 billion […]