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Pray for Sacred Settlements
Settled, our on-site ministry partner that helps build tiny homes for our chronically homeless neighbors, has been working with Church of the Open Door in Maple Grove on the next Sacred Settlement. However, some neighbors in their area have expressed concerns about the plan. Read More
2025 Costa Rica Trip Recap
Camp Penuel in Esparza, Costa Rica, has a mission to provide free camping experiences for 7-11 year-olds (especially those from shanty towns and impoverished areas) where they can learn of the love of Jesus. Read More
2025 Serve-a-thon Recap
Okay, we admit it. We waaaay underestimated just how many service hours y’all had in you! We kicked off our Serve-a-thon with the humble goal of 250 hours between MLK Day and the end of February, and you put in 738! Read More
New Series: Wholehearted
Our new series, Wholehearted starts this Sunday, March 9! Jesus told us to love God with our whole heart, and he has given us the spiritual practices we need to align our heart with his. Read More
March Food Drive 2025
March is Food Nutrition Month, so throughout the month, we’ll be collecting food, donations and brown paper bags for our food shelf, the Corner Shelf. Read More
From Echo Student to Echo Leader
Echo, our youth group, is made up of some pretty terrific students and adult volunteers. Kim Bandy has had the unique perspective of participating in Echo first as a student and later as an adult leader, and shared her experience from both angles. Read More
From Isolation to Relation
Depression and anxiety are big burdens to carry, especially if you are trying to do it alone. Healing Well’s “Light in the Darkness” group creates a safe place for people to work through these struggles together. Read More
Today’s Harvest: One Month In!
It’s been a little over a month since the Today’s Harvest free food market opened in our north end. In that first month they have had 8,817 visits, served 450 households each weekday, and distributed 144,853 pounds of food! Read More
Can’t Lose With Cultivate
We’re rolling out a new round of Cultivate classes and hope you check them out! To find out what a Cultivate class is like, we asked instructor Paul Eddy and two of his students to share their experiences. Read More
Serve-a-thon
When Civil Rights leader John Lewis advocated for a holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., he called for a “national day of service.” He urged for “a day on, not a day off”. This attitude of service is the same attitude of Jesus who, “did not come to be served but to serve.” So we are taking up this challenge for a “day on” of serving and turning it into a “month on” with a church-wide Serve-a-thon! Read More
"Thank you for this ministry! It has transformed my life in some really radical ways. God has broken down so many barriers and exposed so many lies that have taken some serious burdens from my heart. It has given me hope, freedom and purpose I never could have imagined possible."
– Jenny, from Wisconsin