Hennepin Happenings
News & Events @ Hennepin Avenue UMC
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"God is with you, and so are we!"
A message from Pastor Judy
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As we all adjust to the sudden and significant disruptions to our lives brought about by COVID-19,
we are determined to stay connected with you, our Hennepin community.
In accordance with the current executive order from Governor Walz and direction from Bishop Ough, we have made the following changes to our operations:
Hennepin Avenue UMC has temporarily suspended in-person worship services through Sunday, May 10.
Effective at 4pm today, Friday, March 27, the Hennepin building will be closed through Friday, April 10.
We will continue to monitor the main phone number and respond promptly to voicemail messages--don't hesitate to call us!
Live-streamed worship services WILL take place each Sunday, and throughout Holy Week (see below for details).
We are grateful for the exemption in the Governor's stay-at-home executive order that allows essential clergy and church staff to come to Hennepin and create a live-streamed worship service for you!
Community Meals WILL be served on Sunday, March 29, with meals packaged "to go" and available to pick up at the East Entry.
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Connect with Your Hennepin Community
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NEW! DAILY PRAYER CONNECTION
Join your pastors in a virtual get-together every Monday-Friday!
Twice daily, beginning next Monday, March 30, HAUMC invites 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.
Coffee with Judy
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#
Closings with Frenchye
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#
Other ways to connect:
- Reach out (virtually!) and check in with your friends and neighbors.
- Check our Facebook page for regular updates and messages from Judy, Frenchye, and our Ministry Team.
- Worship with us online Sundays at 8:30am (Sacred Journey) and 10am (Traditional Worship) (see below for details)
PASTORAL CARE
We understand that persons in care facilities, nursing homes, and hospitals are among the most vulnerable to infection. Until further advised,
all personal visits by our care team are suspended.
Pastoral visits to facilities are also suspended as advised by public health guidelines.
Pastoral care is available through phone (612-871-5303) and email (
pastoralcare@haumc.org
).
If you experience an emergency or a bereavement, please let us know--we are here!
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Worship with Us by Live Stream!
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There are three easy ways to access the live stream. We strongly encourage you to
practice using one or more of these
before
Sunday morning.
If you need help, we invite you to find a friend, family member, or neighbor who can help you get it set up, or to call us here at the church.
- On your desktop computer, open an internet browser (i.e., Chrome, Firefox, Safari) and go to the live stream page of the Hennepin website—or just click here: www.haumc.org/live. If the worship service has started, you will see an active video on the page. If the service has not started yet, you will see a black box and a note about how soon the live stream will be “on.” When it is time for the service to begin, “refresh” the web page and the video will be shown live.
- Download the HAUMC Live Stream app to your mobile device (smartphone or tablet). Go to the App Store and search for HAUMC Live Stream. When you see our church logo cross, you will know you’ve found the right app. Click “Get,” and when the download is complete, click “Open.” When it is time for the worship service to begin, open the app, and the live video will show up automatically.
- Watch the live stream on our Facebook page, Facebook@HennepinAvenueUMC. If you already follow us on Facebook, simply visit our Facebook page at the time of the worship service and scroll down to watch the live video. Otherwise, type “HennepinAvenueUMC” into the search bar on your Facebook page, and then click on the link to our page.
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Your Gift Matters, Especially Now!
A Message from Faith Nutz, Finance Committee Chair
Dear Hennepin Avenue UMC Members and Friends,
Love is our aim! During these difficult days, it is more important than ever to keep our ministries strong. As you are able, please continue to give your offering to Hennepin Ministries. We continue to rely on your donations to fund our general operating budget, including utilities, maintenance, salaries, benefits and outreach expenses.
Please consider one of the following ways to give:
Sign up for monthly automated giving.
Contact our Director of Finance Brian Seim at brian@haumc.org or contact your bank to set up monthly "autopay" services.
Mail your offering
to 511 Groveland Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403.
We appreciate your financial giving because it empowers us to connect and care in this difficult time. Love Is Our Aim. Now and always.
Thank you!
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Traditional Worship Moves to the Art Gallery this Sunday
At Hennepin, we're doing our best to see the silver lining of all these COVID-19 related clouds. While many other plans have been cancelled, our scheduled repairs of water damage to the Sanctuary stonework are quickly moving forward.
To protect our organ and chancel during this repair, the restoration process required us to build scaffolds and drape plastic across much of the Sanctuary. Plastic sheets don't make for a very nice backdrop for worship, so we're going to enjoy the gift of our Art Gallery, and relocate Traditional Worship to the Art Gallery until the scaffolding comes down.
When you tune in to the live stream at 10am this Sunday, don't be surprised to see us in the Art Gallery--you're in the right place, and so are we!
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Lenten Sermon Series
Rooted Faith:
Exploring Our Spiritual Foundations
As we wait for new growth to break through the winter snow, we'll explore how our spiritual lives grow from deep roots of tradition, experience, learning, and grace.
In this sermon series on "Rooted Faith," we'll consider the roots of Jesus' faith, and ask how his example helps us root our own faith and the faith of our children.
Come see--the seeds of faith are sprouting all around us!
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Worship This Week: Rooted in Identity
8:30am Sacred Journey in the Art Gallery
10am Traditional Worship,
also in the Art Gallery
Watch the live stream
here
!
Scripture:
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April 5 - Palm Sunday | ONLINE WORSHIP ONLY
8:30am Sacred Journey in the Art Gallery
10am Traditional Worship in the Sanctuary
April 9 - Maundy Thursday | ONLINE WORSHIP ONLY
6pm Supper has been cancelled.
7pm Service will be live streamed.
April 10 - Good Friday | ONLINE WORSHIP ONLY
7pm Tenebrae Service in the Sanctuary will be live streamed.
April 12 - Easter Sunday
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ONLINE WORSHIP ONLY
8:30am and 10am Celebration of Resurrection worship services will be live streamed.
8-10:30am Easter Breakfast is cancelled.
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Risk-Taking Mission and Service
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The Dignity Center Remains Open
People experiencing homelessness are exempt from the Governor's shelter-at-home order. The Dignity Center will continue to serve people living on the margins of our community, for whom "social distancing" is not an option.
We are open and operating with limited interaction. We have entered phase three of our COVID-19 programming support plan. This includes connecting with participants remotely; community check-ins by phone and email; assistance requests through appointments; and serving a home-cooked meal to go.
The population we serve is anxious and has nowhere to go to access information or support. There is much work yet to be done as we walk with people on their path to stability.
Here are some ways we are adapting our services:
“LIMITED INTERACTION” SERVICES FOR EXISTING PARTICIPANTS
Existing Participants working on goals can make requests for assistance through email or by phone.
Existing Participants will receive limited services at one of the 3 doors at the Dignity Center. We plan to provide services with limited interaction, including our home-cooked meals Dignity to Go!
GARAGE DOOR: DIGNITY FRESH-TO-GO MEALS
Our home-cooked meal will be served from the garage in to-go containers and can be enjoyed in The Dignity Center’s basement area with cereal, Starbucks and hot coffee.
DRIVEWAY DOOR: TOILETRIES
Hygiene kits, toiletries, and other items will be available at the door off the driveway.
FRONT DOOR: IN-PERSON CONSULTING
Appointments for referrals, consultation and/or assistance will be made from the front door (through appointment only, please call ahead).
WE WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE WHAT WE CAN, FOR AS LONG AS WE CAN, AS BEST AS WE CAN...and we hope to return to normal services as soon as we can!
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Drivers Needed for Meals on Wheels
Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church is seeking Meals on Wheels delivery drivers for Fridays. HAUMC volunteers arrive between 11-11:30am to pick up packed meals a delivery sheet and a binder containing a map, directions from place to place, and a car window message notifying police and others that meals are being delivered. Most routes take 60-90 minutes, and two volunteers per route means one can drive and the other navigate. This is a vital ministry, not only for delivery of food, but because often volunteers are the only personal contact the client has throughout the day.
Contact Peggy Kjorstadt-Kaatz for more information or to sign up at kaatzpjs@hotmail.com or 612.388.0413.
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Action Alert! Support Shelters & Rental Assistance
We need your help encouraging government leaders to pass a COVID-19 response package immediately that includes $50 Million of support for emergency shelters and $100 Million in rental assistance.
People experiencing homelessness in Greater MN are sleeping in their cars, living in a storage unit or abandoned building, camping in cold weather, staying in a shed or garage, secretly sleeping at their place of employment, or being doubled/tripled up. This is why we need to invest $50 Million in a COVID-19 response for our shelter systems.
We also need to invest $100 Million into rental assistance because workers with unemployment insurance will receive half their typical earnings. 1 in 4 Minnesota households are already housing cost-burdened, and if we don't do something immediately this number will drastically increase. On average, food service workers are left with $63 and retail sales workers are left at $329 each month to make ends meet. These workers won't be able to pay for food, medicine, and other household needs.
Right now we are told to 'stay home' during this pandemic, but for people experiencing homelessness and staying in overcrowded and underfunded shelters, going home is not an option. We need these investments to save lives.
Learn more and take action.
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Take GCORR's Free Implicit Bias Course
“Implicit bias: What we don’t think we think” is a new online course created by The United Methodist General Commission on Religion for anyone interested in learning and teaching others about implicit bias.
The learning engagements included in each section allow for individual work, group work, and optional sermon preparation. All of the learning engagements recognize and lift up the reality that context is known best by those on the ground.
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You Can Transform Lives!
Join the Volunteer Lawyers Network
Are you a lawyer in Minnesota looking for a way to positively impact people experiencing poverty? The legal clinic at the Dignity Center needs you.
The Dignity Center has been partnering with Volunteer Lawyers Network (VLN) for over 10 years to provide legal advice and services to Dignity Center participants who are working with an advocate to get their lives back on track. VLN provides malpractice insurance and all the necessary training.
As a volunteer, you can broaden your network, earn CLE credits and develop new (or dust off old) legal skills. Time commitment is one, 3-hour shift once a month. Shifts are Wednesdays or Fridays from 9-12am.
Interested in signing up or learning more? Contact Mary Martin, Director of The Dignity Center at mary@haumc.org.
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Save the date!
Sofas & Spokes
Saturday, May 16 at 9am-12 Noon
Do you have used furniture such as tables, chairs, sofas, end tables, lamps, and dressers that could use a new home? Perhaps you have adult bicycles you are no longer using? If so, you are cordially invited to the 12th annual Align Minneapolis furniture and bicycle drive – “Sofas & Spokes” -- on Saturday, May 16, from 9-noon at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church (511 Groveland Ave, Minneapolis). Furniture and bicycles will then be given to guests of Align Minneapolis outreach ministries to assist in furnishing new apartments and to provide bicycles as an economical, environmentally-friendly and healthy method of transportation to work and appointments. Questions? Contact Mary@haumc.org, 612-435-1337. Adult bikes only; no beds, appliances or construction materials, please.
Would you like to learn more about the life- changing, dynamic work of the ALignMpls? Visit their website at
www.alignmpls.org
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2020 Youth Mission Trip
July 26-31, Chicago, IL
Those who register by March 31 take $50 off cost of the mission trip!
We already have nine youth signed up for the trip so we've added space on the The 2020 youth mission trip will be headed to Chicago July 26th - 31st. We will be staying at the Historic First Church of the Brethren, a church with a long history of being a community leader on issues of social justice.
The group will be doing a variety of projects throughout the week, serving with a variety of ministry partners.
It only takes a deposit of $100 to register, and youth and friends who sign up by March 31 can take $50 off the total price of the trip. ($325) Youth can sign up to participate until may 10 as long as space allows. and May 10 is $375.
If you have additional questions about scholarship opportunities or any other topic, please email or ask me, Rick, in person.
rick@haumc.org
. Register for the trip by going to
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Mission Trip to Antigua, Guatemala
November 29-December 5
Interested in a mission trip to Antigua, Guatemala, Nov. 29-Dec 5, 2020?
Hennepin Avenue UMC will partner with
Common Hope
, a social service organization based in St. Paul, to advance their work with children and families living in Guatemala who want to improve their lives through education, health care, and housing.
To express interest and learn more about the trip, please contact Hennepin members Kimm Schneider (612kimmschneider@gmail.com) or Jane Mylrea (janecmylrea@yahoo.com).
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Intentional Faith Development
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Update from the Legacy Giving Task Force
Throughout the month of February, the Koinonia Legacy Task Force (Task Force) invited the congregation to submit ideas of how the church could invest proceeds from a potential sale of Koinonia Retreat Center that would support the strategic initiatives of the church.
Thank you to the many who responded! It has been incredibly energizing to hear of your thoughts and ideas. The Task Force is currently working to compile the responses in order to provide a report to the Strategic Council in April.
At this time, the sale of Koinonia Retreat Center is not imminent; therefore, no formal recommendation is being made as to the use of the potential proceeds. As the Task Force collaborates with the Strategic Council as to next steps, we invite you to continue submitting your ideas to
koinoniaconversations@haumc.org
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General Conference to Be Postponed
The Executive Committee of the Commission on the General Conference has been notified by the Minneapolis Convention Center that they are restricting events at the venue through May 10, 2020, following recommendations by the
Minnesota Department of Health
, the Governor of Minnesota, and the Mayor of Minneapolis to postpone or cancel events involving 50+ people in order to slow the spread of coronavirus.
As a result of this decision, the Executive Committee is announcing that the General Conference will be postponed and will not occur May 5-15, 2020 as planned.
Out of concerns for the health and safety of all those affected amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Executive Committee has been monitoring the situation for some time and had scheduled a teleconference
meeting
of the full Commission of the General Conference for March 21 to discuss plans for rescheduling the event.
Only the full commission is able to set a new date or decide on an alternate plan. That meeting will go forward as scheduled, although it is not known at this time how quickly they will be able to announce new dates.
Please take a moment to be in prayer for the Executive Committee, the delegates and our entire United Methodist Church as we adjust to this change of plans and its implications for our church community.
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What if church wasn't a place, but a feeling?
What if "radical hospitality" was more than just words?
Check out our new video celebrating how Radical Hospitality at Hennepin transforms lives.
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Lights, Cameras–Worship!
Volunteer to Become a Multimedia Assistant
Are you looking for a way to support and connect with your Hennepin community during the COVID-19 crisis?
By now you know how essential our live stream service is--YOU can be a part of making that holy connection with Hennepin members, neighbors, and even strangers across the globe by volunteering as a Multimedia Assistant.
You can help out in the tech booth by advancing slides, running the sound system, and/or operating our live stream cameras. Don't worry if you don't already know how to do this--we will provide training!
Please contact Royd at
royd@haumc.org
to become part of the technical team that enhances the Sunday worship experience for everyone at Hennepin Avenue UMC!
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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Old School by Steeple People Temporarily Closed
We miss you at Old School by Steeple People! Are you wondering how to stay connected with us during the time of COVID-19? We've got options--great options!
1) on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/OldSchoolBySteeplePeople/
2) on Instagram @oldschoolthrifty
3) Did you get a recent email from us announcing that we're currently closed? If so, you're on our email list. If not, send your email to Anne Lippin (annegardens@comcast.net) to be added to the email list.
We hope to see you again soon. Love, Old School
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Support Mental Health Services:
Join the Board of NAMI-Hennepin
How would you like to be involved in the cause of mental health in Hennepin County? A good way to do this would be to be on the Board of NAMI-Hennepin.
You can do as much as you like or as little as attending one monthly meeting on the second Monday at 6:30-8:30p at Bethlehem Lutheran Church at 4100 Lyndale Ave S.
This is a great opportunity to get some knowledge of what the mental health needs out there are. We are a progressive and open, welcoming, friendly group.
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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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511 Groveland Avenue, Minneapolis MN, 55403 | 612-871-5303
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