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,…
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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…
As winter weather closes in on Minnesota, opportunities to support affordable housing are heating up! Without homes, our neighbors are missing the most basic foundation to health. In a time that requires great community healing, we can advance this faithful, healing work together. The Second Offering for November is Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative, and in…
Our ministry partner VEAP, a food-shelf-and-more in Bloomington, recently sent out this request: With many of our long-time volunteers unable to support us because of the pandemic and many of our new volunteers returning to work after furloughs, we are predicting a shortage of volunteer support in the coming months. Specifically, we are seeking volunteers…
The 2020 Morningside After Dark storytelling and live music series kicks off this month. Save the dates!
EMC is hosting an Advent Workshop on the afternoon of December 8th from 3-5pm. We welcome the neighborhood and congregation to our Fellowship Hall for an afternoon of crafting. Dreaming of snow globes and luminaries? Reindeer and elves? Houses made of sugar? Frosted sugar cookies? Celebrate this season of togetherness with conversation, smiles, and lots…
Services like ancestry.com and 23andme.com plus the “Finding Our Roots” TV series are just a few of the signs that family genealogy is a nationally growing pursuit. In addition, many adults these days are faced with the arduous task of sorting through family papers and photos, and choosing what to save and what to toss….
EMC pulled out all the stops for Mardis Gras worship and a pancake breakfast — complete with music by the Dixiecats — on Sunday, Feb. 11. While middle-schoolers and high school students set the tables and cooked up sausages and pancakes, elementary school kids made prayer books that EMC missioners will bring to the Daylight…