Project Home
Saturday Dinners at Project Home
Once a month we prepare and share a dinner with the clients of Project Home, families from our neighborhood who are experiencing homelessness. See dates and sign up here >>
First Nations Kitchen
Volunteering with Meal Giveaway
Sunday, April 21 at All Saints Indian Mission,
from 12:30-3pm or 3:30-5:30pm
We are blessed by our partnership with First Nations Kitchen, a ministry led by indigenous people for indigenous people. Volunteers are needed for the indoor Prep Shift (12:30-3pm) and the mostly-outdoor Giveaway Shift (3:30-5:30pm). Click here to sign up>>
Immigrant Action Team Training
Saturday, April 20 from 9am-noon in the Gym
This is the follow-up training mentioned in Rev. Daniel Romero’s sermon and that day’s forum.
ECMN and the Minnesota Council of Churches are inviting individual churches and denominations to join us in helping immigrant families, specifically those from Central and South America, who have survived harrowing journeys to find a better life in the U.S. and yet don’t qualify for the federal, state and county supports that refugees, asylees and humanitarian parolees have access to. We expect to have a formal invitation about this ministry ready soon (tentatively called What Would Whipple Do Now?).
In the meantime, join those from MCC and St. John’s Linden Hills (Rev. Daniel Romero, Archdeacon Rena Turnham, the Rev. Susan Moss, and the Rev. Rex McKee) who are prototyping this ministry for a training that will orient volunteers as to why these teams are being formed and provide the information and tools that SJE’s Action Team will need in their accompaniment of immigrant families. As you might imagine, every family will need food, clothing and shelter but beyond that, needs can differ greatly. Finally, once an Action Team is formed the Leadership Team will mentor them.
Registration is not required but appreciated. Sign up here!
Note: Attending the training does not obligate you to be on SJE’s Action Team; all levels of support are needed and this will be a great intro to how you can help in whatever way you can.
St. John’s Clinic in Kayoro, Uganda
Give Us Wings 25th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday, April 25 at 5pm, at The Machine Shop
Join in the 25th Anniversary Celebration with a new venue, new activities, and updates from Uganda! Tickets on sale until April 16.
A Visit from Program Manager Anthony Munene
Sunday, April 28 following 10am worship
Anthony Munene, the Give Us Wings Health Program Manager of the Kayoro Clinic in Uganda, will visit SJE on Sunday April 28th along with Peter Carlson, GUW’s Executive Director. They will visit both the 8am and 10am services.
Come meet Anthony and learn more about the Kayoro Clinic at coffee hour after the 10am service. The Kayoro Clinic Committee will be serving sub sandwiches along with other coffee hour goodies. Don’t miss this great opportunity!
Local Indigenous Sacred Sites Pilgrimage
Saturday, May 4 from 2:30-6:30pm, with time for reflection to follow
Join the Creation Care team on a pilgrimage to local indigenous Sacred Sites to learn about Minnesota history from a Native perspective.
Who should come on the tour? The stories told deal with historical trauma, so may not be appropriate for younger children. The whole tour is or can be made physically accessible for people of all mobility levels.
How do we get there? A bus will pick up pilgrims at St. John’s and take us to the sites together to allow for group discussion in between. It will return us to St. John’s afterwards so we can share a liturgical reflection.
Click here to sign up >>
Creation Care
Meetings
Every 2nd Monday at 6:30pm in the Library
We work towards climate justice by establishing action plans for practical, systemic, and relational work here at St. John’s. Come check out a meeting to learn more about what we do!
Land Acknowledgement Feedback
The Creation Care team is still taking feedback on our land acknowledgment. Share your thoughts on the poster in the gym.
