Stephen Ministers provide emotional and spiritual support and care to people who are going through a difficult time, such as divorce, grief, hospitalization, unemployment, terminal illness, relocation, chronic illness, or loneliness. We meet one-on-one with a care receiver and provide a listening ear, a comforting presence, and a spiritual companion.

For information please call the church office: 952-884-2364

~From Pastor Arthur and the COVID Response Team~

TLC Policy Remains Unchanged

As of July 25 due to continued low case counts in Bloomington, our COVID policy for Sunday worship remains the same:

However, we do want you to be aware that there have been several confirmed COVID cases amongst TLC children and one instance of a “break-through” case in which a fully vaccinated grandmother caught COVID from her grandchildren.

Mask wearing us is encouraged for your own safety as well as the safety of others.

The COVID Team continues to keep a close eye on case counts.

Thousands of students in the Bloomington, Richfield and Edina school districts need help filling their backpacks this fall. Join us in supporting their academic success by making sure they have all the supplies they need for the year. VEAP will be collecting items and distributing to the school districts with the support of local faith communities, businesses and partners.

Backpacks and calculators (scientific or otherwise) are high-demand items and the most impactful, as they’re expensive for families to purchase on their own. If you are able, please consider making these a focus of your donations. Traditional supplies like spiral notebooks, flash drives, head phones, and washable markers are needed as well. Please make sure all items are new. Please, no gift cards at this time.

You MUST register to participate – Here is a sign up for the summer fun! Look forward to seeing you IN-PERSON this summer! PLEASE NOTE: we will be adhering to the current policies of the organizations we will be using for summer ministry when it comes to masks. Stay tuned for more info as we get closer to the dates.

We HOPE to see the whole ELC/TLC community on August 11^th for dinner (PLUS AN ICE CREAM TRUCK), games, stories, music, and to meet your neighbors and our community partners at TLC. 

Click on this link to sign up to help or contact Pete Erickson (perickson@tlcmn.com) or Pastor Melanie Heuiser Hill (mheuiserhill@tlcmn.com) if you would like to share your gifts!

Blessing of the Animals – August 8^th at 10AM 

Sympathy to:

Pat and Vern Christenson on the death of Pat’s sister, Susan Strauss.

We often refer to the "Good Old Days"----actually they were not that good----but when "All in the Family" was so popular on TV, we'd enjoy Archie, Edith playing the theme song on their piano, and the son-in-law, called Meathead, plus the Bunker's daughter. Gloria. I wish they were still on. To this day, when I put on socks and shoes, I think of Meathead, and Archie telling him that no one puts on both socks first and then shoes!

Can you remember when Transfiguration did not have air conditioning? It would get so warm in the old sanctuary that come Sunday morning, sometimes the candelabras on the altar had "U" shaped candles. What would you even do with those? Toss them. Now with A/C we sometimes complain about it being too cold, especially if you are wearing shorts or sandals.  

I have a good idea to moderate the temperatures.  All we need is more folks in the pews, and their body warmth would be enough to bring the temps up a bit. Enough said.

My first-ever air conditioning was found in Minneapolis. We'd go shopping at Dayton's, and walk over to Hennepin Ave. to see a movie. The theater would brag, "Cool Inside" and it drew more people in for just those two words than the actual movie did. 

I had a funny thing happen when we'd just put central air conditioning in our house. At the time, I was singing in a women's chorus of maybe 20 gals, most of whom were nurses. Their schedules would allow them to get to rehearsal during the day. One day I told them to come to my house for practice, as we now had A/C and it would be comfortable. It was a very quiet rehearsal, not even much conversation. I noticed that a lot of those women had fallen asleep there in our living room. They were so tired from not being able to sleep well for several nights during the heat wave. Name of the women's chorus was Harmony Unlimited... yes, and even snoring unlimited!!

When winter lasts so long, wouldn't you think we'd appreciate the warm weather---A/C or not? Gotta gripe about something, I guess. Be thankful we are not experiencing what Germany is, right now. Too much rain and bad flooding... Call it "Feast or Famine", but they'll clean it all up, and then sometime next summer complain about drought.   

Stay cool, but not too cool, and if you are not vaccinated, get your two shots....We do not want another pandemic just because people don't want to get vaccinated.  

Please visit our page on TLC's website here or reach out to one of us directly or send a confidential email to: addictionawareness@TLCmn.com

The Mission of Exodus Lending is dedicated solely to providing trapped Minnesotan borrowers a just pathway out of payday loan debt and toward financial stability.

The Exodus Lending annual fundraiser is coming up on July 29th and tickets are only $5.00! We would love to see you and celebrate being together once again. If you'd like to learn more you can visit our website: exoduslending.org.

A place of peace and reflection, honoring and remembering those close to our hearts. Please click here to visit our website dedicated to those who have passed on -- from 2012 to the present. Each person -Saint- has a page with their obituary, video photo collage, the funeral service bulletin, homily, photo album, and in more recent years, a video of the entire funeral service that was held at TLC.