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Mission Mobilizers (MM) are Kingdom influencers that work to transform Kansas City and beyond. MM meets the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month where two presenters share their ministry.
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June 6, 2025, 7:00 – 8:30 am (Central Time) by clicking on this link OR by pasting the link in your browser.
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COME AND SEE! COME AND HEAR! COME AND SEE! COME AND HEAR!
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Joey Knight , Development Director, will update us on Faith Comes By Hearing Ministries.
Joey has been working with churches for over 3 decades. Some of the roles he has played are church planter, lay pastor, media consultant, greeter, and teacher. His teaching includes men, couples, teens, and young adults. Joey and his wife, Rebecca, reside in Cleveland, TN.
He is on staff with FaithComesByHearing.com in Albuquerque, NM. The MISSION at Faith Comes by Hearing is to get God’s WORD to every person on earth in their heart language and distribute it for free.
Joey has also worked in the fields of acoustic design and installation, audio-visual production, and digital printing, starting Digital Printing Services in Overland Park, Kansas.
Joey Knight can be reached at JKnight@fcbhmail.org
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“We are grateful for the gospel-centric education which helps to support the foundations of her faith. Additionally, the arts have helped our daughter become a confident contributor in the classroom and in every area of life. She loves attending Providence for all the opportunities she gets to perform and create. Additionally we have seen our son’s self-confidence sky-rocket. He feels safe, loved, and important at school!” – Katie (School Parent)
In 2021, Providence received an answer to many prayers. We received a $200,000 gift to support the growth of our school. This gift allowed us to increase our capacity to serve more students, pursue accreditation (awarded in 2023), and expand our development efforts.
Kansas City-native Marcus Oatis began his dance training at Ailey Camp and also studied at Kansas City Ballet, Smith Sisters Dance Studio, The Center Dance, the Ailey School, and Paseo Academy of the Fine and Performing Arts. He attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on scholarship, earning his BM in Music and Music Performance graduating in 2005.
In 2008, Oatis joined Kansas City Ballet under the direction of William Whitener. Oatis’ repertoire included Jessica Lang’s Splendid Isolation III, Val Caniparoli’s Lambarena, Jerome Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun, Ib Andersen’s Romeo and Juliet (Paris), José Limón’s The Moor’s Pavane (The Moor), George Balanchine’s Serenade, and Todd Bolender’s The Nutcracker (Russian). He additionally performed in works by Bruce Marks, Peter Martins, Robert Hill, Twyla Tharp, and Yuri Possokhov.
Oatis has also danced with Owen/Cox Dance Group, Arcanium Dance Project, Central Dance Theatre, and Omaha Dance Project.
After retiring from his performing career in 2012, Oatis became the Lower School Principal and a Campus Manager at Kansas City Ballet School. During this time, “he was able to codify the Lower School curriculum, [to] increase enrollment in school year and summer programming at the satellite campus, and to create and implement professional development opportunities for the teaching faculty.”
He has also taught at Kansas City Ballet School, Omaha Academy of Ballet, Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Ailey Camp, and University of Missouri-Kansas City.
In 2013, he founded Providence School of Arts a private Christian School, of which he is still executive director. Oatis believes in “the cognitive, physical, and emotional benefits of arts education and believes in providing families with viable faith based educational opportunities.
Marcus emailed me the following: I have been reflecting on how God has always wanted to be our King and how we place other things before Him. See John 18-19.
Marcus Oatis can be reached at moatis@providenceartskc.org
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If have any questions, you can reach me at eagle.eye.ent@sbcglobal.net or 816-215-5826.
Have a Kingdom Day Living Life with no Regrets,
Larry
MM Communicator
