SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Minneapolis Area Synod, ELCA Enews
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Storytelling is sacred. Storytelling engenders empathy and understanding. Storytelling has the power to build community in divisive times. You are invited you to one, two, or all of the workshops in this series of Storytelling Workshops with master storyteller Mark Yaconelli.
October 3-6
2730 East 31st Street, Minneapolis
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Allies and Friends Workshop
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Muslims and Christians will gather together for a day of conversation, learning, and relationship building. The event is sponsored by the synod's Lutheran-Muslim Relations Task Force. The cost is $17 for adults and $10 for students.
Saturday, November 2
8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
8600 Fremont Avenue South, Bloomington
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Keeping Faith: Empowering the Faith Community to Recognize and Respond to Child Abuse
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This course empowers faith communities to recognize and respond to cases of sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. Included are discussions detailing the impact of child abuse on a victim's sense of spirituality and offering concrete suggestions for working with medical and mental health professionals to assist a child in coping with maltreatment.
8:30 a.m., Monday October 7 – 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 8
2021 East Hennepin Avenue, Suite 360, Minneapolis
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From Partnership to Mission:
A Global + Local Journey
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With inspiring worship, plenary sessions, and learning tracks, participants will learn more about multicultural ministry with young adults, being neighborly in a changing neighborhood, intergenerational faith formation, and more. The cost of $25 for the day includes lunch.
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Saturday, September 28
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
1215 Roselawn Avenue West, Roseville
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A prodigal welcome: Ministry Imagination Grants making a difference
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“'We say we’re bondage to sin and can’t free ourselves,' says Ed Treat, the pastor of
Transfiguration Lutheran Church
in Bloomington. 'Addiction is anything that you do that is hurtful, you know, and you keep doing it.'” The Rev. Dennis Sanders tells the story of the national Addiction and Faith Conference addressesing this problem with support from the
Ministry Imagination Grants
of the synod.
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Where is the synod staff in upcoming weeks?
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- Pr. Deb Stehlin will be preaching at the closing worship of Christ English Lutheran, Minneapolis, on Saturday, September 28. (Christ English and River of Life Lutheran, Minneapolis, are forming Christ the River of Life Lutheran.)
- Pr. Craig Pederson will be installing Pr. Ryan Fletcher at Christ Memorial Lutheran, Plymouth, on Sunday, September 29.
- Pr. Deb Stehlin will be attending the farewell of Pr. Foy Christopherson at Central Lutheran, Minneapolis, on Sunday, September 29.
- Pr. John Hulden will be installing Pr. Amy Chalupnik at Trinity Lutheran, Monticello, on Sunday, September 29.
- Pr. Deb Stehlin will be installing Pr. Rebecca Gamble at Normandale Lutheran, Edina, on Sunday, October 13.
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- ELPNA Fall Retreat: "Led by Grace; I am Who I am," September 26-27
- Suicide Awareness Symposium: The Role of Faith Communities, September 28
- Mount Olivet Presents: "Screenagers," September 30
- Boundaries Workshop, October 3
- Storytelling Workshop with Mark Yaconelli, October 3-6
- Working Preacher Presents: "The Craft of Preaching," October 7-9
- Finding Congregational Vitality by Focusing on Daily Life, October 8-9
- Annual Norwegian Supper, October 12
- "Paris to Pittsburgh" movie and faith-based discussion, October 13
- Allies and Friends Workshop, November 2
- Change (almost) Everything, November 18-19
- Fall Joint Ministerium with Saint Paul Area Synod, November 21
- Minneapolis Area Synod Assembly, April 24-25
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