Editing Lenexa, Kansas (section)

==Culture==
===Events===
Each June, the city hosts the Great Lenexa Barbecue Battle, which is also the Kansas state championship. Lenexa was known as the Spinach Capital of the World<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LdD5adyrRFEC&pg=PA10 | title=Kansas Trivia | publisher=Thomas Nelson Inc. | author=Brackman, Barbara | year=1997 | pages=10| isbn=9781418553814 }}</ref> in the 1930s, and celebrates with the Spinach Festival every September.

===Religion===
Lenexa is home to the St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, a parish founded in [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] in 1906 and moved to Lenexa in 2006. The parish constructed a new Byzantine style church and cultural center. The church hosts a SerbFest every year in the summer and a Food Festival and Bazaar in the fall.

The [[Church of the Nazarene]], an [[evangelical]] [[Protestant]] [[Christian denomination|denomination]], which was headquartered for many years in Kansas City, moved its international headquarters to Lenexa in 2008.

===Healthcare===
On April 13, 2023, construction began for [[AdventHealth]]'s new hospital, AdventHealth Lenexa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fox4kc.com/business/adventhealth-breaks-ground-on-new-lenexa-hospital/|title=AdventHealth breaks ground on new Lenexa hospital|last1=Koch|first1=Makenzie|last2=Stowell|first2=Kerri|date=2023-04-14|website=FOX 4|access-date=2023-05-06}}</ref>