Each month, Edina Morningside Church partners with a different community ministry to raise awareness and funds. We call it our “Second Offering”, and in February we are supporting Simpson Housing Services in Minneapolis. Originally a ministry of Simpson United Methodist Church, this shelter-and-more for people who are experiencing homelessness now serves thousands every year. Its…
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Rosemary is a volunteer and mother of four students at Daylight Center and School (one of our partner outreach ministries). Her daughter Thelma recently graduated from the eighth grade, top of her class. Thelma qualified to go to a top high school in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi. In Kenya, High School is not free…
Our ministry partner Meals on Wheels continues safely delivering meals to homebound community members throughout the pandemic , and this Monday they’ll deliver an additional provision: a Blizzard Bag! Each reusable tote contains shelf-stable foods that will tide recipients over of a snowy emergency, items like cereal, oatmeal, fruit, tuna, hummus, pretzel sticks, cheese sticks,…
Our mission partner VEAP–a food-shelf-and-more located in Bloomington–recently sent out a thank you for the incredible support of community organizations like ours. Edina Morningside Church has volunteers who still serve each week at VEAP despite the pandemic, we grow produce (and receive donations from the neighborhood!) all summer, we participate in back-to-school campaigns, and last year…
EMC has developed an Advent calendar that will allow everybody to share in the spirit of Christmas. This is a fun way to help people who really need it. The calendar assigns a grocery item for each day of Advent. Purchased items may be brought to the church for collection and donation to VEAP (Volunteers…
Ever since Hurricane Maria caused catastrophic damage in Puerto Rico, the American citizens there have been doing their best to cope with the humanitarian crisis. Meanwhile, El Colegio High School in Minneapolis has been collecting and shipping innumerable supplies, on a Delta flight and via a ship’s container, to Puerto Rico. EMC-donated supplies—personal care items,…
Our congregation is well on its way to meeting our goal of raising $800,000 for A More Divine Design—EMC’s capital campaign to improve our 95-year-old church and to continue to share the joy and welcome of Christ’s love for generations to come. If you’re a member or friend of EMC and haven’t yet made your pledge, there’s…
After several years of discussion, planning and research by a core group of members, EMC’s congregation approved the initiation of an $800,000 capital campaign, 40 to 8, on Jan. 29. The funds will be used to create a more welcoming new entryway and narthex, to repair the organ, and to pay down debt on building repairs. Special thanks…
It’s like a word problem from an elementary math class: “If a goat costs $100 and you raise $868, how many goats can you buy?” That was the surprising outcome when the EMC congregation exceeded their goal for Kenya’s Daylight School, a partner of our congregation. When school director Michael Kimpur was asked if the school…