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We hope you can join us LIVE on Thursday, May 6, 2021, for the annual Springfield Prayer Breakfast.  Community members and leaders will gather to pray for our city, state, county, and nation at this local observance of the "National Day of Prayer," instituted by Congress in 1952. While open to all, the observance specifically honors the Judeo-Christian faith tradition.  Our great thanks to the many sponsors who make this event possible. Lightbox link for post with description We hope you can join us LIVE on Thursday, May 6,...

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In Springfield, where the poverty rate has more than doubled over the past 10 years, so many of our neighbors are labeled as failures, as lazy, as people to be fixed, as those who shouldn’t be seen or heard, as “less thans” who need our charity, but who don’t deserve our most precious gifts: our time, our love, and our own vulnerability.

Through the lens of John 17 and Matthew 25, We believe Jesus is talking about the complete disappearance of our labeling of who is first and last, who is right and wrong, who is in and who is out.

We see the mission of the Council of Churches as a means to raise a vision of true compassion – a Christ-centered compassion that is born out of our personal identification with our neighbors, a love for our neighbors that lives into the truth that God is with us, that our labeling and judging comes to an end, that there is no difference between the first and the last, that we are ONE body, ONE human family in Christ.

We want this #MoreThan initiative to be a movement that spreads across our community. A movement to look past the labels placed on us by ourselves or others, a movement to see each person as #MoreThan what meets the eye.

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The Council of Churches of the Ozarks (CCO), is a faith-based 501(c)3 serving Southwest Missouri since 1969. Its mission is to improve the quality of life of our most vulnerable neighbors by doing together what can best be done together in the name of Jesus Christ. With wrap-a-round support services available through nine outreach programs, the Council meets community needs affecting infant to elder. As an extension of churches from a variety of denominations and backgrounds, CCO has been inspiring hope for families, children, seniors, and adults for more than fifty years.

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627 N. Glenstone Ave.
Springfield, MO 65802

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P.O. Box 3947
Springfield, MO 65808

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Phone: 417-862-3586
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Email: CCOzarks@ccozarks.org

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