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Homeless Connect Needs Your Help
Volunteers are needed to help homeless guests as they look to recieve services.
Visiting Soweto: A Blog Post by Dries Coetzee
The following is a blog post by Dries Coetzee, the Associate Pastor at Oak Grove Presbyterian Church in Bloomington. He is currently on sabbatical with his wife and children in his native country of South Africa.
I am back in the Cape Town area in a town called Paarl, where I am visiting my sister Emily [...]
Peace and Nonviolence Retreat in Circle Pines
“CREATING A CULTURE OF PEACE: INTERFAITH RETREAT IN ACTIVE NONVIOLENCE”
Sponsored by MN Fellowship of Reconciliation; and the St. Paul Interfaith Network
June 12-14, 2009
Hospitality Place Retreat Center
Circle Pines, MN
Friday, 5pm – Sunday, 2pm
for information contact: Rev. Don Christensen at 651-690-2609; rachelanddon@msn.com
Enrollment limited; registration deadline, May 22, 2009
Prayer Vigil for Potsville, IA
Prayer Vigil on the First Anniversary of the Immigration Raid in Postville & in Remembrance of Raids Throughout Minnesota
Ramsey Adult Detention Center
425 Grove Street
Saint Paul, MN
Tuesday, May 12 6:00 PM
As people of faith, we stand in solidarity with our immigrant brothers and sisters and their families as many gather for this nationwide day of [...]
Environmental Stewardship Taskforce Unveils New Resource at Pre-Presbytery
The Environmental Stewardship Task Force encourages churches in the Presbytery to make use of a new, 2-part adult education or retreat study. This free power point presentation is a detailed and interesting review of 4 environmental actions that came out of our 2008 General Assembly. It is your chance to spark discussion of the issues and a wonderful [...]
PTCA Pastors Blog About Poverty
Today, May 1 is the day that Presbyterian Bloggers come together to write about poverty. A call was made out to people accross the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area to send your thoughts on this issue. We have two personsthat have either sent or wrote about poverty on a separate blog. We wanted to [...]
Presbyterian Bloggers Unite on Poverty
Do you like to blog? Do you have opinions on poverty? On May 1 Presbyterian bloggers have a chance to blog about the subject of Poverty as part of a project called Presbyterian Bloggers Unite. The goal of this endeavor is as such:
On the first day of each month, in order to build awareness, [...]
Day for Darfur, April 26 at MN State Capitol
Day for Darfur: The Faces of Genocide
Sunday, April 26, 1-3 PM Minnesota State Capitol
Learn about genocides past and present, listen to local musicians and speakers, and find out what you can do to help end the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, where hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions have been forced from their homes. [...]
Earth Day
From the Mission Yearbook:
Honoring the Earth has as much to do with the little decisions we make every day as it does with the big ones. What can we do? In the spring of 2006, Betsy, a member of our church, designed a system of recycling and composting for the Blue Ridge Barbeque and Music [...]
No bread, no wine, but a sacramental beer
By admin on August 12, 2009
Gordon Stewart is the Pastor of Shepherd of the Hill Presbyterian Church in Chaska, MN. This article originally appeared on Minnesota Public Radio .
Sometimes having a beer is a sacramental act. The president and vice president of the United States having a beer with Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and police Sgt. James Crowley, at [...]
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