Jambo, Daylight Partners! – Good Luck and Farewell 8th Graders! On Monday, March 22nd, our 8th grade students will be taking their National Exams. These yearly exams, taken by all 8th grade students, were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The exams are usually given in the fall. The staff held a party…
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VEAP Food and Fund Drive – March 1 – April 11 VEAP is having a Food and Fund Drive in conjunction with the annual Minnesota FoodShare Campaign. Their goal this year is to raise $175,000 and 75,000 lbs of food. That’s quite a lot but there is a big need! In 2020 VEAP distributed 4,663,551…
Jambo! Daylight Partners! A New Beginning! It is a new school year at Daylight and there are happy voices and the campus is once again a flurry of activity! We look forward to sharing more stories and highlights of our students. To the right, some of our younger students were doing some painting recently. They…
Each month, Edina Morningside Church partners with a different community ministry to raise awareness and funds. We call it our “Second Offering”, and in February we are supporting Simpson Housing Services in Minneapolis. Originally a ministry of Simpson United Methodist Church, this shelter-and-more for people who are experiencing homelessness now serves thousands every year. Its…
This week we received a thank-you note from Daylight Center, one of our ministry partners, which runs a school-and-more for tribal children in rural northwestern Kenya. Rev. Eliot Howard, a member of Daylight’s U.S. Board of Directors, writes in part: This month all students are starting the new school year. This would not have happened…
This past year has been a challenging year to all of us in many different ways and Daylight School is no exception. Classes have been delayed and staff has worked diligently to update the health and safety precautions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve added many hand washing stations, health monitoring and sanitizing procedures. And…
Our Winter Film series discussion group starts on Tuesday, January 19 at 7PM! Participants are invited to watch the films on their own, then gather via Zoom for discussion at the appointed times. To register, click on the links below. To facilitate discussion, participation is limited to 12. An “Individual Reflection Version” is also available…
Rosemary is a volunteer and mother of four students at Daylight Center and School (one of our partner outreach ministries). Her daughter Thelma recently graduated from the eighth grade, top of her class. Thelma qualified to go to a top high school in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi. In Kenya, High School is not free…
‘Voice’ is how our inner truth makes its way into the world. Voice is a tool we all have access to, and singing is a technology of community and creativity. Through the Full Voice Institute, Dianne Baker, Eoghan Carrick, & Conie Borchardt were prepared by Barbara McAfee to lead practices of helping folks unlock the…
“I’ll have a blue Christmas without you, …” As we move closer to the 2020 Covid Christmas, many of us are grieving the family gatherings and other holiday celebrations that are missing this year, and many other things we have missed during the past several months. Since we can’t gather to share our feelings of…