EMC members donned masks, beads and more in honor of our annual Mardis Gras event. We celebrated both during and after Sunday worship with a parade, a pancake breakfast, lively music by our choir and the DixieCats (including our own Gary Lundgren on trombone), plus Mardis Gras-themed decor. This day of merry-making precedes the beginning of Lent, held this week…
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You’ve got five chances to attend EMC’s Lenten Series “Souper Wednesdays.” Better yet, attend all five. At each, you’ll enjoy dinner and hear from a great local speaker on a compelling topic, including immigration, homelessness and the experience of race in Minnesota. Souper Wednesdays Schedule: Feb. 17: Rev. John Gutterman, Conversations with Friends, “Ministry at a Time of Migration” Feb. 24: Rev. Demetrius Chester, New…
Hardy Minnesotans packed into our church basement on Monday night for the first evening of Morningside After Dark this winter. Focused on the theme “Hush,” musicians, including members of Heartfelt (shown above), storytellers and poets shared their performances with a happy coffeehouse crowd.
Twenty-plus EMC members headed to Chanhassen Dinner Theatres this week to see “Sister Act” and our own Music Director Alex Heetland both playing keyboards and directing the band. His two-week stint as director follows another he enjoyed there last fall for “Mary Poppins.”
TRUST, an interdenominational group of South Minneapolis churches, will present its annual worship service to celebrate the life and legacy of The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at Living Spirit United Methodist Church (4501 Bloomington Ave., Minneapolis) on Sunday, Jan. 17, at 5 p.m. EMC confirmands are encouraged to attend and invite the rest of the congregation…
Before heading back to normal routines after the holidays, EMC teens and adults remembered those whose routines never change. On Sunday, Jan. 3, five middle-schoolers and three adults spent the afternoon at Boneshaker Books, reading letters from women incarcerated throughout the U.S. and selecting books they requested to mail to them. It is a ministry our young people especially love, choosing…
Is this the year you’re finally going to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and tell your story? Let Morningside U help you get started. Edina Morningside Community Church is hosting an intergenerational workshop on writing memoirs on Saturday, January 16, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Experienced and beginning writers, ages 10 to 100,…
Which Christmas Eve service will you attend? Consider joining us for the Christmas Eve Intergenerational Service at 4 p.m. We’ll welcome Baby Jesus by lighting the Christ Candle, listening to special music, singing carols with accompanists Alex Heetland on piano and Pete Haugen on guitar, enjoying Time with Children led by Janet Anderson, hearing a homily from Pastor Howard—and, of…
Join us this Sunday as our young members tell the Christmas story during our annual pageant. The children will perform “Merry Christmas, Grandma,” written by Alex Heetland, EMC music director, and adapted and choreographed by Janet Anderson, EMC director of children, youth and families. See you there at 10 a.m. All are welcome!
Morningsiders met for brunch, caroling and a bit of shopping yesterday morning. We kicked off our day at Victory 44 in north Minneapolis, where we ate eggs with bacon, dates with bacon, French fries with bacon, snow peas with bacon—and discussed our favorite Christmas movies. With happy stomachs, we walked Victory Memorial Parkway, caroling to bicyclists, dog walkers, and…