Join us for our second annual Advent event which will combine Coffee Hour, our outreach Advent project for Groveland Foodshelf (above) and Aliveness Project cookie baking event on December 9. Coffee Hour will be hosted live and on Zoom from SpringHouse. Join others for fellowship, crafting, coffee, baking cookies and fun! Drop in at your convenience to start your Advent season.
Please join Downtown Minneapolis Congregations for the Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Community Service held this year at Plymouth Congregational Church of Minneapolis on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, at 10:00 AM.
The service will also be available via LiveStream – click here to watch
The Downtown Minneapolis Interfaith Senior Clergy will lead the worship service, featuring a powerful message by Senior Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman of Temple Israel of Minneapolis and readings and reflections from Jewish, Islamic, Christian, and Indigenous traditions. We unite in a posture of unity and gratitude to renew our commitment to peace, cooperation, and interfaith dialogue. Come worship with us, joining your voices in a communal service of gratitude and thanksgiving
Participating congregations include Central Lutheran Church, Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), First Covenant Church, First Unitarian Society, First Universalist Church, Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, Islamic Community Center of Minnesota/Masjid Al-Amin, Masjid An-Nur, Plymouth Congregational Church, Pilgrim Baptist Church, St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, St. Olaf Roman Catholic Church, Temple Israel, and Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Join the Upper Midwest region’s ARPR team Sunday evening. November 19 for an educational experience: Pronouns and the Church. We will be lead by Rev. Emily Ewing. This event is free but registration is required.
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We are going with a reduced community gathering schedule this week:
Happy Hour With The Pastors, Thursday, October 26 – 5:00 PM
To join us through Zoom :https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
To join us through your phone: (312)626-6799, Meeting ID: 896 0018 3588
Coffee Hour With The Pastors, Saturday, October 28 – 9:00 AM
To join us through Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
To join us through your phone: (312)626-6799, Meeting ID: 876 9639 8415
Pastoral Care:
Wednesday: Anna Bliss C: 612-998-5011 akb@pobox.com
Thursday: Karen Kandik C: 612-210-7144 mnkandik@aol.com
Celebration of Life Service for Ellie Bowman
Friday, October 20
10:00 AM – Visitation
11:00 AM – Service in North Sanctuary
Light lunch following
The service will also be LiveStreamed, and the link is being shared through our eblast. If you have any questions, please reach out to Pastor Dan.
Sunday October 8, we will begin a new worship series, We Live We Love. About the series:
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.” — John 13:34
The struggle with right relationship is a human theme that we’ve been dealing with ever since we were “humans.” To live is to love — no way around it! These themes cross boundaries of time and geography and we also find them in some of the most ancient stories of our Judeo-Christian tradition. How are we to deal with human frailty and the ways in which our fear shows up in difficult relationships?
Plaster House has a big announcement! They have a new name – Kafika House. Click here to read the announcement and learn more
According to the SpringHouse Covenant; Children’s Ministry is led by a standing Child Ministries Team, made up of representation from each SpringHouse congregation. This team is responsible for imagining what ministry for children from nursery age through elementary school looks like in
the midst of our community. This includes the nursery, Sunday ministry, special events, and cross-congregational and/or generational content or experiences.
As we continue to navigate what ministry, as a whole, looks like on this side of the pandemic, we also need to envision what ministry with our youngest members can look like moving forward. The same few people from each congregation have been serving on the Child Ministries Team for many years and we need some new members to help us move forward.
What does being on the Child Ministries Team entail? Members of this team commit to:
- Occasional meetings (can be in person and/or Zoom meetings)
- Working with a team of 2 people from each congregation and any paid staff that are part of
the team - Dreaming about what ministry with children can look like and what we want it to look like
- Helping to make strategic decisions and plans about nursery care, Sunday School, and
other parts of children’s ministry - Helping name/find adult volunteers from their respective congregations (which may or may
not include themselves) to help lead/supervise any programming implemented
Qualifications for the Child Ministries Team:
- A love of children and commitment to SpringHouse and its joint ministry
- Willingness to learn and imagine what being church for our youngest members looks like
- Willingness to engage in naming/encouraging volunteers
- Helping to implement plans coming out of the team
Special Note: One does NOT need to have children to be on this team. One also does not need to
commit to teaching/supervising Sunday School or events themselves. This is a team that envisions
what ministry can look like and dreams, plans, and implements plans for ministry, including helping
name/recruit adult volunteers.
Interested? Have questions? Reach out to Deb Murphy or Pastor Rhonda