Hennepin Happenings
News & Events @ Hennepin Avenue UMC
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NEW!
Is the Spirit Calling You to Action?
Are you ready to organize and mobilize for social justice in our neighborhoods? Be part of
HennepinHOPE
, a new campaign of our Risk Taking Mission and Service ministries.
We're making it easier for you to get and share timely, action-focused news about Risk Taking Mission and Service ministry efforts.
*Follow @HennepinHOPE on Twitter
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Earlier this morning, we shared a Statement from Hennepin's Strategic Council on the Death of George Floyd and Becoming an Anti-Racist Congregation. You can read and add your name to this statement
here
.
On our new web page,
haumc.org/anti-racism
, you can find this message, plus statements from our clergy and bishop, as well as links to resources for adults, families, and children and information about anti-racism actions you can take right now.
We'll be adding resources all the time--visit the page regularly, and share it with friends!
Join in this vital work of becoming an anti-racist community!
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United Methodist Church General Conference
Congregational Conversations on A Way Forward
Sunday, June 14 at 11:30am and
Wednesday, June 24 at 7pm on Zoom
We have scheduled two opportunities for a Congregational Conversation regarding the Way Forward led by these two questions:
1. If the General Conference decides to maintain its current stance on human sexuality and inclusion, that is no change to the language contained in the Book of Discipline, what should Hennepin do?
2. If the General Conference agrees to a split, and the remaining United Methodist Church is inclusive where does Hennepin stand?
These Congregational Conversations will take place on Sunday, June 14, from 11:30am - 12:30pm, and again on Wednesday, June 24, from 7:00 - 8:00 pm.
To join the
June 14 Conversation at 11:30am
:
By video conference click
here
.
By phone: Call
301-715-8592 US or 312-626-6799
Meeting ID: 977 4663 7191
Password: 659911
To join the
June 24 Conversation at 7pm
:
By video conference click
here
.
By phone: Call 929-205-6099 or 301-715-8592
Meeting ID: 978 1472 1946
Password: 099598
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Launching Monday!
Realm: Our New Connection Tool
Hennepin is moving to a new kind of church record-keeping software platform called Realm. Realm offers you some exciting opportunities to connect more easily than ever with your Hennepin community. Realm not only supports you in your involvement at Hennepin, but also serves important administrative needs for our staff.
Realm will make it easier for our church family to connect with each other, keep up with what’s going on, and grow as a community of believers.
On Monday, June 15, check your email for an invitation to start using Realm.
(You may need to look in your spam folder.) Follow the instructions in that email, and enjoy getting to know Realm.
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Entry Point: Become a Member of Hennepin Avenue UMC
Monday, June 15 at 6pm on Zoom
What do I need to know to become a member of Hennepin? How can I engage more fully in HAUMC ministry communities? How can I use my gifts to help to transform a broken world?
If you are asking any of these questions, or you’re simply interested in learning more about how to become a member of HAUMC, please join us at a special Entry Point via Zoom to meet Rev. Judy Zabel and have your questions about membership answered.
Follow
this link
to join the Zoom meeting, or dial in from your phone:
301-715-8592; passcode: 94141738165#.
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Connect with Your Hennepin Community
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We are determined to stay connected with you,
our Hennepin community.
Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church properties continue to remain closed, and in-person worship remains postponed, both until further notice.
A decision by senior leadership as to when to reopen our church and return to in-person worship will be based upon the most recent information coming from Bishop Ough and Governor Walz, and the best judgment of staff.
In the meantime, Hennepin staff and leadership is preparing plans to safely re-open one step at a time. Until then, connect with us in one of the following new ways!
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NEW!
"Almost Too Early" Daily Meditation with Rick Belbutoski
Start your weekday with Rick, Hennepin's Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries, on Instagram.
Live at 6:30am--almost TOO early--he will share encouragements and experiences to ground and center you for the day.
Follow @HennepinAveUMC on Instagram and find Rick in the Stories.
Join the conversation and share YOUR perspectives! See you in the morning!
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DAILY PRAYER CONNECTION
Join your pastors in a virtual get-together every Monday-Friday!
Twice daily, we invite you to start your day with "Coffee with Judy" at 8am for 30 minutes of coffee, connection and conversation; and end your day with "Closings with Frenchye" at 8pm for 30 minutes of reflection, connection and prayer.
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8:00 – 8:30am Central Time
Weekdays M-F
or
Join by phone using the dial-in information below:
+1 224-458-3414;
PIN: 513 534 392#
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8:00 – 8:30pm Central Time
Weekdays M-F
or
Join by phone using the dial-in information below:
+1 252-460-1038
PIN: 725 249 383#
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Coffee Hour:
Virtual Sunday Fellowship
Weekly on Sundays
11:30am to 12:30pm via Zoom
It's good to see one another's faces and hear one another's voices!
Gather with other members of the Hennepin community for fellowship and connection. Hosted by Hennepin member Mike DeVaughn.
Or join by phone using the dial-in information below:
Dial 312-626-6799.
Enter the Meeting ID: 894 7948 0458.
If you need technical assistance using Zoom, email us at support@haumc.org.
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Online Forms for CONGREGATIONAL CARE
From your phone, tablet or laptop, you can
share a prayer request or celebration
, let us know about
hospitalizations
for you and your loved ones, or make
confidential pastoral prayer requests.
To use the online request system, go to
haumc.org/care
from any of your devices. You can also
call the office (612-871-5303)
, or
email
pastoralcare@haumc.org
. The pastor on call will contact you as soon as possible.
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Finding Hope: Between Here and There
A Sermon Series on Loss and Transformation
June 14 through July 5
Global pandemic and local racial injustice have left many of us feeling isolated, fearful, angry, and hopeless. In this series, we will gather to lament our losses and to bear witness to each other's experiences.
We will explore what it means to overcome hopelessness, how to have hope in the moment, how to find hope for the future, and how to share hope with our communities.
Together we'll walk the spiritual path from here to there.
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Worship This Week: Overcoming Hopelessness
8:30am Sacred Journey and 10am Traditional Worship
Teaching and Healing
Watch the worship services
here
!
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Risk-Taking Mission and Service
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Food Donations and Lake Street Small Business Support
It has been amazing to see residents support their communities with donations of food and household products. Minneapolis Public School food distribution sites have received such an outpouring of donations that
they can no longer process more.
To best support those in need, please
make financial donations to local food shelves
or non-profit organizations you trust instead of dropping off food.
The City of Minneapolis is compiling and regularly updating
this list
of resources and opportunities to help residents affected by the riots.
The Lake Street Council/Visit Lake Street are raising funds to support damaged small businesses and nonprofits. Learn more about how to help Lake Street rebuild
here
.
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Sew, Deliver and Donate funds for
Health Care Workers' Masks
If you are looking for an opportunity to sew masks for front-line health care workers, go to
maskarmy4heroes.weebly.com
for information on how to sign up to obtain free kits or register to receive masks at no charge for the health care location where you work.
If you don’t sew, you can assist with deliveries and/or make donations for the purchase of special H600 fabric, which is almost as protective as the N95 masks.
The goal is to deliver 50,000 masks as soon as possible, and already over 4,000 have been donated.
If you have questions, you may contact HAUMC member Anita Nerhus (612) 202-1372. She is a cousin of Rebecca Rausch, the founder of Mask Army 4 Heroes.
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Old School by Steeple People Misses You!
We are currently evaluating our options for reopening. We're also hoping to do a couple ONLINE SALES soon!
To stay in the loop, check our FaceBook page:
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Intentional Faith Development
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New Discussion Group
Vital Conversations: Realities of Race and Racism
Weekly on Tuesdays, June 9, 16, 23 & 30 7:00pm on Zoom
You are invited to gather with fellow Hennepin members and friends to have Vital Conversations about the realities of race and racism in America.
Using the award-wining Vital Conversations Video Series provided by the General Commission on Religion and Race (GCORR), we will dive into some tough topics that threaten to divide and damage our community.
The video series features contemporary theologians, sociologists, laity, clergy, scholars, activists and other thought-leaders dealing with challenges of race, culture, and oppression in the world today.
Join a Zoom call for one or all four of the 75-minutes sessions. Heather Alden and Michelle DeVaughn will be facilitating. Email us with any questions: Heather Alden at (
haepower3@gmail.com
or Michelle DeVaughn at
devaughnmm@gmail.com
).
Click here
for the Zoom meeting, or dial in from your phone: 312-626-6799.
Meeting ID: 976 1951 8382
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Free Online
Anti-Racism Books and Movies
During this time when we can't provide service to you in person, the Library Team suggests these free resources:
The University of MN Press is providing online access to 22 books in its Reading for Racial Justice Collection through August 31 (
upress.umn.edu
).
Just Mercy,
the 2019 film about civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, is available on multiple streaming platforms until June 30.
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Confront Implicit Bias:
Take an Online Course
In our work for racial justice, we must confront the ways that racism is woven into our culture, our institutions, and even our own psyches.
“Implicit bias: What we don’t think we think”
is an online course created by The United Methodist General Commission on Religion and Race for anyone interested in learning and teaching others about implicit bias.
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New
College LYFE Group
Sundays at 8:30pm on Zoom
College students need community!
We're launching a new LYFE (Life Your Faith Everywhere) group for 18-24 year olds, beginning Sunday, June 7, at 8:30 pm on Zoom.
The group will meet every Sunday night throughout the summer, and provide an opportunity for young adults to connect and grow their faith.
Zoom Meeting ID: 812 8085 1771
Password: 037043
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Hennepin Book Club:
Where the Crawdads Sing
Tuesday, June 16 at 7pm on Zoom
Join your Hennepin friends for our new monthly book club, hosted by Jane Mylrea.
The book selection for June is
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens. Trish O'Brien will lead the discussion.
At our July 21 meeting, Cece Cope will lead our discussion of
Unsheltered
by Barbara Kingsolver.
At our August 18 meeting Linda D'Avignon will lead our discussion of
The Topeka School
by Ben Lerner.
All are welcome! Invite friends and make new ones!
Join the Zoom Meeting
here
.
Meeting ID: 445 460 5643.
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New!
Online Recovery Support Group
Sundays at 6:30pm on Zoom
No matter where you are in your recovery journey, this group is a safe place for you to connect, learn, share, and listen as we support each other. No registration required. We look forward to seeing you.
Email David Focht at
dkfocht@gmail.com
for more details.
Meeting weekly on Zoom. Join by video
here
.
Meeting ID: 944 6225 8131
Password: 427306
Join by phone by calling: 312-626-6799.
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United Methodist Church Dakotas-Minnesota Area
"Just Love" Special Appeal
When we’re fearful and fuming, depleted and damaged, may we respond by just loving God and neighbor. When we witness discrimination and division, callousness and cruelty, may we respond by loving justly. Just love allocates human and financial resources to assess and address crisis response, relief, recovery rebuilding, renewal, repentance and restitution, trauma therapy, and anti-racism. Just love addresses the food, Black home and business ownership, and health care deserts within our communities.
Your gifts will enable partnerships with our congregations on the frontlines to support ministries of mercy (crisis counseling, housing stability, food/medicine) and ministries of racial justice (education, advocacy, intervention). A Rapid Response Grant Team with representatives from urban core churches and Black congregational leaders will oversee special appeal allocations, and your donations will be directed to where there is the greatest need in rebuilding our neighborhoods.
If you prefer, checks can be mailed to the Minnesota Conference at 122 W. Franklin Ave., Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55404-2472. Please note “JUST LOVE” on the memo line.
Thank you for your generosity and stewardship of God’s mercy and justice.
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Hennepin Avenue UMW Invites YOU
Emma Norton Fundraising Dinner on Zoom
Thursday, July 23 at 7pm on Zoom
Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Women invite you to attend the
Emma Norton
Opening Doors Dinner and Virtual Auction with us! We will be hosting a Zoom call during the event for all of us to virtually gather, enjoy dinner and each other's company, and support this great United Methodist Women-founded organization.
Please email your RSVP to
umw@haumc.org
for a reply with meeting details and more information.
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New!
Make Your Offering by
Text Message
We're making it easier than ever to make your offering to Hennepin--starting now, you can
give by text message
from your mobile device.
Send a text to
73256
with the message:
Hennepin $
,
followed by the dollar amount. For example:
Hennepin $100
or
Hennepin $25
.
You will receive a text reply. Just tap the link in that message to go to a new page, where you can enter the details of your offering and provide payment information.
Once you click "submit," you will receive a digital receipt for your gift.
Try it this week as you join us for online worship!
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Sharing the Future: Explore Legacy Giving
For generations Hennepin has nourished the faith and lives of individuals and families through prayers, worship, outreach services and social relations. Our faith community has embraced and aided members and friends in times of joy and challenge.
Legacy gifts are a part of that treasured heritage. We benefit each day at Hennepin, often more than we realize, from the generous and heartfelt estate gifts from Hennepin members. These legacy funds, in part, are helping sustain our ministries amid the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, and will enrich the fabric of our future.
You can share in Hennepin’s future through your financial planning today. Your gift, of any size, will touch future generations in myriad ways. A bequest provision, life income gift, a beneficiary designation in a retirement or insurance plan, es examples, will leave a lasting imprint.
To explore a Legacy Gift, or inform us of an intent already in place, contact Jack Fistler, 612-435-1321, or
jack@haumc.org.
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SEND US YOUR ANNOUNCEMENTS
Do you have news to share in Hennepin Happenings?
The deadline for announcements is
12 Noon on Monday
for announcements to be included in the following Friday's newsletter.
Submissions are subject to editing for space and content.
Thanks for sharing your news!
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