Our church rummage sale is coming up!
Thursday July 19 – Saturday July 21
8am to 5pm each day
Grace Center Gym
Bring treasures and other donations on Sunday July 8 or 15. Donations also accepted July 17 and 18 from 8am to 7:30pm at 6th St door #2 (green awning). No clothes or furniture, please.
For more information or to sign up to help, please contact Kathy Schadendorf.
Our Racial Justice Workgroup began with a small group of committed members attending a local conference on Race and Privilege in 2016. From there we continued to discuss how we understand race, privilege, and justice, and began to plan further educational opportunities for ourselves and for our whole congregation.
The Racial Justice Workgroup invites you to a monthly summer conversation series. Throughout the summer, we will explore three questions:
1. What is the history of race and racial justice?
2. How does that history affect us now?
3. How can we apply what we learn to love our neighbors better?
We will gather after worship during fellowship time, 11:15am-noon. Each event will include suggested readings or videos beforehand, and will have conversations and activities to help us engage with these ideas.
Come and learn with us!
Video: RACE: Are We So Different? produced by The American Anthropological Association (AAA) video introduction. Learn about RACE and unlearning racism: www.understandingRACE.org
Reading: “A Revealing Timeline of Race Relations In the U.S.” Oprah.com, www.oprah.com/inspiration/timeline-of-race-relations-in-america.
Video: What is Privilege? from Buzzfeed
Article: “A History: The Construction of Race and Racism” Dismantling Racism Project Western States Center from www.westernstatescenter.org.
Smith, V Chapman. “American Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights Timeline.” Ushistory.org, Independence Hall Association, www.ushistory.org/more/timeline.htm.
Fri June 22, 9-5 and Sat June 23, 9-4.
Location: Corner of 27th and Johnson St. NE
in the Gustavus Adolphus Church parking lot.
All proceeds will be given to the Little Kitchen.
All leftover sale items will be put in the Grace Lutheran Church garage sale in July.
All questions to Beth Breiter at bbreiter92@gmail.com.
Ways you can help make our fundraiser a success!
Volunteer: We’ll need helpers to organize the sale, set up sale on the evening of Wed 6/20, work the sale both Friday and Saturday and pack up and haul away leftovers at the end. If you’re an organizer, a worker bee, or a people person, we want you. Kids are welcome helpers too.
Shop at the sale and spread the word. We can turn every dollar raised at the sale into food for hungry neighbors. Share our Facebook event on your social media page. https://www.facebook.com/
Art-A-Whirl is a big, festive open studio tour sponsored by the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association that takes place annually in NE Minneapolis. Grace Lutheran was part of Art-A-Whirl in 2013 and 2014 and featured art, music, food and actives for children.
In 2018, Grace Lutheran Church will be hosting a mixed media and fiber art collection, along with the return of 2017’s huge hit: the Shoebox City!
Orange Tesselates by Susan Hensel
May 18-June 15.
We’ll have art and craft supplies of every kind and tons of cardboard — the rest is up to you! What does a city need? Skyscrapers, houses, a library, a school? How about a waterpark or a zoo or even a dinosaur exhibit? Maybe your kids want to grow up to be firefighters, or animal doctors, or archeologists…. so let’s build a fire station, a vet clinic, and a big box of dirt to dig in. Grab a shoebox (provided) and let’s build an amazing city together!
Sunday, May 20, 12 PM – 5 PM.
It’s time for mothers, daughters, sisters and friends to gather at this annual, elegant event. The tea will be held in Mary & Martha’s Tea Room (AKA the Grace Center Multipurpose Room).
Tickets are as follows:
Ladies: $15.00
Young Ladies (5 – 12 yrs): $7.00
Little Ladies (under 5 yrs): No Charge
Reservations are requested by May 2 (or earlier), seating is limited. For tickets, please see or contact Jennifer Fischer (612-781-1117 or Snooky1022@comcast.net) or call the church office at 612-788-2444.
The tea is a fundraiser; $5 of the $15 ticket is tax deductible. Hats are strongly encouraged, and no jeans please.
The event will include a quilt raffle and small marketplace available before and after the tea. If you would like to donate handmade items for sale in the marketplace, the MDSF Tea Team suggests items that are knitted, crocheted, sewn, embroidered, cross-stitched, or are jewelry or ceramics. If you have questions about what to donate, please see or speak with Jennifer Fischer or Kathy Munson.