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…
Advent begins this Sunday, a new season of the church year that marks the weeks of preparation before we experience the incarnation of Christ on Christmas Eve. (Check out our Advent theme video for what we’re up to this year.) Each Sunday of Advent has a different theme, and the first Sunday is that of…
Last Sunday, September 22nd after worship, members and friends of Edina Morningside Church took part in an immersive experience of homelessness and housing needs, thanks to our partnership with Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative. The church’s Beacon Core Team led interactive experiences of a game, bedroom visit, video discussion, and art creation station in order to…
Our waving rainbow flag outside and the loving community inside welcomes (all year long!) those people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ). This coming Sunday, June 16th, we celebrate with Pride Sunday, a week before Twin Cities Pride and two weeks before World Pride in New York City marks the fiftieth anniversary…
Dozens of children and youth from Edina Morningside Church and our wider community have flooded the halls, rooms, stage, sanctuary and surroundings of the church, as Morningside Theatre Company’s summer suite of musical theatre camps kicked off this week. Youth in grades 2-5 are rehearsing Annie KIDS (adapted from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical), and…
In recent years, Edina Morningside Church member Gwen Williams has shared in worship and other settings her lifelong efforts to overcome the effects of childhood sexual abuse. Her courage in addressing this history has modeled for the whole congregation the power that comes from leaning into our birthright identity as beloved children of God. Gwen’s…