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…
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…
Thanks to EMC members Pam, Pam, Laurie and Mary for providing a birthday lunch—complete with taco salads and a personalized birthday cake—for more than a dozen residents, including the two birthday guests, of 66 West. “Your positive energy, expert lunch skills and good humor made for a very delightful afternoon,” wrote Christina Giese, director of…
Just in time for Give to the Max Day— Thursday, Nov. 16—Pastor Oby is featured in a video promoting Perspectives, EMC’s partner organization in St. Louis Park. Check out the video—and consider supporting this human services nonprofit!
Since early 2017, EMC members have been helping kids create healthy dinners once a month at Perspectives, an award-winning human services nonprofit in St. Louis Park. This volunteer opportunity is open to you too—even if you barely know your way around a kitchen. Sign up in the office or email Laurie at emcucc@emcucc.org. Upcoming…
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…
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.
Eight youth and five adults from Edina Morningside made it to the inner sanctum at Second Harvest Heartland, where we helped pack over 900 pounds of cornflakes. (Cornflakes are light. That’s a lot of cornflakes.) We dolled up in aprons, hairnets, and gloves and got up to our elbows in totes of flakes, weighing them…