Rev. Frank Bennett, an EMC member, will be our Lenten Speaker Series guest tonight, March 27. Frank is the founder and program leader of Living Well/Dying Well, and is a senior teaching fellow at the Center For Spirituality & Healing after years of working with individuals and their families who were living with serious and life-threatening illness….
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Are the teen years the best years of our lives? At EMC, we’re not so sure about that. That’s why we’re hosting Equipping Teens for Life: A Health & Wellness Conference for Young People and Parents—a day full of compassion, connections and enlightenment on Saturday, April 8, 2017. Headlining the event is Peggy Orenstein, New York Times best-selling author and Twin Cities native, who…
Morningside After Dark kicked off a space-themed program—and its fifth season with EMC—with a packed house in the church basement on Jan. 30. Fittingly, the first featured storyteller was Dr. Duchess Harris, author of Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA — a book that helps tell the story shared in the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures. Other performers exploring the theme included Humans…
EMC teens and a few adults spent a meaningful Sunday afternoon volunteering for the Women’s Prison Book Project at Boneshaker Books in Minneapolis. They read thoughtful, appreciative letters from approximately 75 prisoners, located requested books—everything from novels to dictionaries, self-help books to religious volumes—and then packaged the books for shipping to prisons all over the United States. “Remember those who are…
Dreaming of snow globes and luminaries? Reindeer and elves? Houses made of sugar? Celebrate this season of togetherness with conversation, crafting, and lots and lots of glue at EMC. Come enjoy an afternoon of holiday crafting for children and adults on Sunday, Dec. 4, 3 to 5 p.m. Tables will be staffed and arrayed with…
Eating and making chocolates—what a great way to kick off a weekend! EMC members, neighbors and friends gathered Saturday morning for Morningside U: Chocolate Indulgence, learning how to make chocolate truffles and bourbon balls from Laurie Cory, our resident chocolate expert. Laurie surprised everyone by passing trays of her choclates to sample as we learned techniques,…
Edina Morningside members cooked and served dinner to families transitioning out of homelessness at Parkway UCC in North Minneapolis. Sharing a table with parents and after-dinner play with children are two of our favorite ways to remember that God loves us and asks us to love others.
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…
On a beautiful Easter Monday, ten adults and youth from EMC served turkey, potatoes, and gravy; made craft-form pictures; tossed a football in the sunshine; and distributed Easter candy and coloring books to six families at Parkway UCC in North Minneapolis, which participates in the Beacon Interfaith housing program for homeless families.