EMC’s Lenten Series “Souper Wednesdays” continues this week with Emily Hipps, Development & Communications Coordinator, International Institute of Minnesota (IIM). Come hear an overview of refugees, how one becomes a refugee, the U.S. refugee process and the help refugees receive once they arrive. IIM delivers services and resources to assist new Americans as they transition to a new…
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…
Hardy Minnesotans packed into our church basement on Monday night for the first evening of Morningside After Dark this winter. Focused on the theme “Hush,” musicians, including members of Heartfelt (shown above), storytellers and poets shared their performances with a happy coffeehouse crowd.
Before heading back to normal routines after the holidays, EMC teens and adults remembered those whose routines never change. On Sunday, Jan. 3, five middle-schoolers and three adults spent the afternoon at Boneshaker Books, reading letters from women incarcerated throughout the U.S. and selecting books they requested to mail to them. It is a ministry our young people especially love, choosing…
Is this the year you’re finally going to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and tell your story? Let Morningside U help you get started. Edina Morningside Community Church is hosting an intergenerational workshop on writing memoirs on Saturday, January 16, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Experienced and beginning writers, ages 10 to 100,…
Kick off the holiday season at our Advent workshop! You and your young ones are invited to make a variety of Christmas decorations and ornaments this Sunday, Dec. 6, 3 to 5 p.m. Helpful hosts will show you how to make the projects, each costing between 50 cents and $2. Parents help preschoolers through first graders; older children are encouraged…
Two lefse stations, two lefse recipes and two lefse experts—longtime members Pam and Marge—led 75 people in the fine art of lefse-making this morning in our church basement. In between learning history of the beloved potato bread, picking up clever tips (like how to freeze lefse) and taking turns at the griddle, attendees got to taste other Norwegian delicacies (also made…
Five middle-schoolers volunteered Sunday morning at Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, prepping a snack of “pencils,” made from cheese sticks, spent time with several kids, and taught an impromptu class on braiding. Thanks for encouraging your kids to serve others!
Registration is open for the next Edina Morningside U class: Learning to Make Lefse Marge Ellingson and Pam Olson will lead this free workshop on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 10 a.m. to noon. You can sign up now on our Edina Morningside U page: Visit our Morningside U page to register now!