Rev. Travis Smith McKee

06/15/2026

Haysville, South Wichita folks... or literally anyone looking for these kinds of classes in your community: We're gearing up for Getting Ahead in the fall, hosted at First Christian Church Haysville. If you know some folks this would be good for, PLEASE send them our way.

And Getting Ahead is an awesome program. There's more around Wichita and several in your community, too!

Shout out to the local businesses that took flyers for our upcoming class. Look for them hanging around town! Getting Ahead in Haysville is locally funded and a hometown commitment to community. We can only accept 15 applicants so get yours in today!

06/14/2026

05/24/2026

This is a family at my church. They’ve been through the wringer already, but this accident on Monday just ramped everything up. It’s going to be a LONG road for recovery and anything can help. Plenty of prayers, too.

Stephanie and Dustin are currently experiencing something we all worry about wi… Sarah Beverage needs your support for Support Braxton's Long Road to Recovery

04/20/2026

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you: Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also, and if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, give your coat as well, and if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭5‬:‭38‬-‭45‬ ‭NRSVUE‬‬

04/01/2026

Not just what can towns do, start with churches seeking out ways to connect. How can these spaces live in the full lives of their communities? Can we start listening for the needs? FCC Haysville is listening, responding, and we’re open for more connections!

There’s a church just outside downtown.

On Sunday, it’s full. Cars everywhere. Not an empty space in sight.

But come back on Monday, Tuesday or Friday afternoon.

It’s mostly empty.

Acres of parking, sitting there and nothing happening. There’s no places to stop. No reason to linger. Just land that only works for a few hours each week.

And it’s not because people don’t need the parking, they clearly do.

That’s the tension.

We’ve built places that serve one moment really well… and the rest of the time, they go quiet.

So what do you do with land like that?

There’s no perfect answer. But some communities start small:

- Let other groups use the space during the week
- Design it so it can flex between parking and something else
- Look for ways to share instead of duplicating

Not a big overhaul. Just better use of what’s already there.

Once you notice it, you start seeing it everywhere.

What’s a place like this in your town?