Pratt, KS. – Pratt Community College (PCC) is excited to announce the hiring of Jenitra Shields as the next Head Women’s Flag Football Coach. Coach Shields has been busy not only settling in on campus, but recruiting student athletes for the fall.
Pratt High School has some returning athletes for girls track that should be significant contributors to team points this spring, according to head track and field coach Derek Liggett. “Daisy Herrman is a senior who should compete very well in the 100/200/400 and also contribute on both sprint relays,” Leggitt said.
Kierra Messick, daughter of Gene and Megan Messick, recently signed a letter of intent with Sterling College to participate in cheerleading at the college level. Messick, the daughter of Gene and Megan Messick, Pratt, is a senior at Pratt High School and has cheered for football and basketball for all four years.
In Psalm 18 King David speaks of his greatness as a derivative of God’s greatness. The title foreshadows the content of the Psalm, “A Psalm of David…who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.” (ESV) The Psalm testifies to David’s greatness, but only as derived from his union with the LORD.
Recently I saw this saying “The world is preparing for war while Heaven is preparing for a wedding.” I love weddings, just ask anyone that knows me. When pastoring, we gave free weddings away that included a cake and punch reception.
A proposed Florida law prohibits any teacher in the state from providing information about the full brutality of our country’s history of black chattel slavery, JimCrow apartheid that followed along with serial atrocities including the terrorism of lynching, and the legacy of this in contemporary institutionalized racial bias. The official reason, right there in the text of the law, is because awareness of our authentic history might cause some individuals to “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin.”
No matter where we come from or how we have been taught, we are responsible for what we think, what we say, and how we act. As optimism and pessimism are learned behaviors, we know that our conduct and worldviews can be changed and controlled if this is our desire. Our spiritual understanding about who God is and who we are in Him must become more than a hope or a chance of fate. Having a personal relationship with Him is based on knowing that we have been purchased with the blood that Jesus shed on the cross and receiving His grace that transforms us.
The March 8, 2022, meeting of the Pratt County Commission was a short one with the only discussion of note coming from Heather Morgan, Pratt Area Economic Development Corporation. “I got a call last week from a person who is potentially going to acquire one of the newer hotels out by the college.
MANHATTAN, Kan. – A recent report of the value of water in western Kansas by two Kansas State University agricultural economists has concluded that land values in that part of the state are $3.8 billion greater today than they otherwise would be without access to the Ogallala Aquifer.
The Pratt Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce it is exploring a possible partnership with the Chamber of Commerce Executives of Kansas and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas to form the “Chamber Blue of Kansas.” This new association health plan will be available to all chamber members in good standing and who employ two or more W2 employees.