Central Lutheran Church

Street Voices of Change
2025-12-11 08:30 - 10:00 (America/Chicago) | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
Street Voices of Change (SVoC) is a group of individuals who have current or past personal experiences with homelessness who come together to build community and make positive changes in the lives of people experiencing homelessness and the systems that contribute to and keep people in homelessness.
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Health Commons
2025-12-11 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-12-15 10:00 - 11:30 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
The Augsburg Central Health Commons
Anyone looking for diapers, hygiene supplies, one-on-one nurse consultations, or just to have a place to sit and rest are welcome. Volunteers often spend time visiting with members of the community, distributing donations, and setting up the space. Faculty, students, and volunteers also provide basic care such as blood pressure checks or basic foot care. The hope is that the moments here can allow guests to address their health needs as they deem necessary, and the work can lead to addressing health inequities and foster healing.

Streets to Housing
2025-12-11 10:00 - 13:00 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
Streets to Housing uses a one-to-one housing-focused approach to work with single adults, youth, and families who are staying outside, in their vehicles, in encampments, or in other places unfit for human habitation. The goal is to help transition them to stable housing and decrease unsheltered homelessness across the county. And so far, it’s working.
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Free Store Shopping (Th)
2025-12-11 10:00 - 13:00 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
Free Store Shopping Hours:
Mondays, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Numbers to enter the Free Store are handed out at 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Monday; and 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday and Thursday. If you have an emergency, call the church office at (612) 870-4416 regarding scheduling a Tuesday appointment.
Free Store Donations
Donations accepted Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and Sundays, 9 a.m.-noon

Fiscal and Property Committee
2025-12-11 11:30 - 13:00 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
The Fiscal and Property Committee manages the assigned budget lines related to property and advises the Congregation Council, as requested, on fiscal and property issues, decisions, and policies. The Director of Finance and the Treasurer of the congregation serve in an advisory capacity to the Fiscal and Property Committee on fiscal and property issues, decisions, and policies. This is a constitutional committee with members appointed by the Congregational Council.
Meeting Room: Nativity

Central Book Club
2025-12-11 13:30 - 15:00 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
The Central Book Club will begin reading again in September.
We welcome new members. If you have questions or need to request Zoom (we need a three-day advance notice), please contact Carol or Cathy.
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Building Closed
2025-12-12 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
The Central building is closed on Fridays.

Wedding of Sophie Newcomb and Brett Erickson
2025-12-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
Service: 3 p.m.
Reception: 4 p.m.
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Worship (Sa)
2025-12-13 17:00 - 18:00 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
Saturday evening worship is a contemplative communion service. Whichever pastor is preaching on Sunday, preaches and leads worship on Saturday night. The service is guided by a contemplative sense: a slower pace, room for silence, and a simpler service order. The altar is on the main floor, and much of the music is led from a piano within the gathered community. The service is generally about 45 minutes long, with 40-50 people regularly gathering. After worship, there is a social time with non-alcoholic beverages, wine, beer, and finger food like cheese and crackers, dip, and sweets.
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Worship
2025-12-14 08:30 - 09:30 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
The 8:30 a.m. Sunday worship is an intimate “First Light” service with Holy Communion. It features hymns and the Word, musically enriched by vocal soloists. It is a full communion service led by the Casavant organ or the piano. One of the pastors preaches, and another presides for worship and communion. A member of the congregation serves as the assistant minister. The service is based on Lutheran liturgy (service order) and hymn singing. The service lasts about 50 minutes, and generally, 60-70 people attend. Following worship, there is coffee and cookie fellowship time in the Great Room. During the program year (September–May), educational opportunities follow.
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Adult Forum
2025-12-14 09:30 - 10:30 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
The Sunday Adult Forums will begin on September 14 at 9:30 a.m. The forums will be grounded in conversations that align with Stories of Home. Throughout the year, Central’s pastors and guest speakers will lead us in conversations about the essential spirit and nature of home in our churches and our culture. What does home mean to you? How are the images and realities of home captured in our theology, our worship, and our lives of faith?
Join the forums with a curiosity about how your faith and how your church have created the spirit of home for you.

Worship
2025-12-14 10:30 - 11:30 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
The 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship has the largest attendance. During the program year (September–May), this is a choir-led festive service with Holy Communion. It is a communion service rooted in Lutheran liturgy and hymns. One of the pastors preaches, and another presides for worship. Congregation members serve as the assisting minister and the lesson readers. A time for children is offered during the service. The service lasts 65 minutes, and generally 250-300 people attend. Following worship, there is a community meal served for all.
In the summer, there are scheduled food trucks on some weekends. On rare occasions when there is no meal served, coffee and cookies for fellowship time are served.
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Sunday Community Meal
2025-12-14 11:30 - 12:30 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
We gather each Sunday after the 10:30 a.m. worship in the Great Room to share a meal. The menu changes week to week. On holiday weekends, coffee, cookies, and lemonade are served instead of a meal.

Listening for God Contemplative Prayer
2025-12-14 12:30 - 13:30 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
You are invited to join the Listening for God contemplative prayer group at any time. The group gathers each second Sunday of the month at 12:30 p.m. Pastor Peter leads this prayer gathering grounded in various contemplative prayer practices. Each month a practice is introduced and then experienced. For those that wish to share, we pause to reflect on the experience and how God is present. It is also a time when you do not need to share anything, simply be present for this time of prayer. We gather in the prayer space in the back corner of the sanctuary and wrap up by 1:30 p.m.

Free Store Shopping (M)
2025-12-15 10:00 - 13:00 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404

Worship (M)
2025-12-15 11:00 - 11:30 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
Monday’s worship service is grounded in community and followed by a community meal. Each week of the month, worship has its own flavor, from testimony times and healing services to confession and forgiveness and Holy Communion. Music is led by members of the worshipping community. The Pastor for Community generally leads worship, though some weeks there is a guest preacher or one of the other pastors may preach and lead worship. This service is held in the Great Room and has 25-40 participants who gather within the Monday community ministry flow. This service is not livestreamed.

Monday Community Meal
2025-12-15 11:30 - 12:00 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
We gather every non-holiday Monday at 11:30 a.m. to eat lunch together. The meal is planned by our great kitchen staff and accomplished by our team of faithful volunteers. It is a meal served to folks at tables and we get a chance to enjoy some fellowship. Some folks come to lunch because it’s where they catch up with their friends, some folks come to lunch because it’s good food for free and that helps them meet their basic needs in a dignified and loving way.
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Spiritual Listening
2025-12-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
What does it mean to walk with all the beloved of God? How does walking with shape prayer and the ways we listen as individuals, a community, and neighbors? How is the spiritual discipline of listening shaping the current offering of the Ignatian Spiritual Discernment movement? Pastor Melissa leads this weekly conversation, drawing from the Ignatian Spirituality Project and the ways it opens us all in this faith community.
Meeting Room: Nativity

StreetSong MN Rehearsal
2025-12-15 12:30 - 13:30 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
StreetSong MN Choir
Who: Persons ‘experienced’ in homelessness – i.e. persons currently or formerly homeless, and those who care about them.
Rehearsal time: Mondays, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Contact: Katie Dillon, Director of Align Minneapolis
StreetSong draws on the experiences, hopes, and aspirations of its members to produce a choral experience promoting personal fulfillment and the development of community. A meal is available prior to rehearsal, and bus tokens are provided. The choir has appeared at the Central Library in downtown Minneapolis, the Mall of America as part of its Holiday Music Festival, the annual Homeless Memorial March and Service and at various churches and mosques. In April 2016, StreetSong MN performed at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts.

Staff Christmas Party
2025-12-16 10:30 - 13:00 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
The Central staff will celebrate Christmas together with food, games, and gifts!

Mobile Free Store
2025-12-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Mobile Free Store, 651 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN, 55402, United States
Central operates a Mobile Free Store on the third Tuesday of each month. The Mobile Free Store is located at 651 Nicollet Mall.
Location: 651 Nicollet Ave.

Congregation Council
2025-12-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
The Congregation Council is the leadership team that provides the monthly guidance and long-range planning vision in the life of the congregation. In addition to the ten elected members, the pastors also serve on the council.

Free Store Shopping (W)
2025-12-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404

Shalom Circle
2025-12-17 11:30 - 14:00 | MN
Shalom Circle meets for fellowship and prayer once a month.
Meeting Room: Nativity (June gathering will be offsite)

Emergency Rental Assistance Intake (W)
2025-12-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
The Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Program allows Align Minneapolis to further its focus on long-term housing solutions by expanding our areas of involvement to include homeless prevention. The program supports individuals and families by providing rental assistance in a time of short-term financial crisis. Central is one of the intake locations for this program.
First come, first served
Mondays 12:30-2 p.m., Wednesdays 12-1:30 p.m.
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Prayer Shawl Knitters
2025-12-17 13:00 - 15:00 | Central Lutheran Church, 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
The prayer shawl knitters meet monthly for prayer, fellowship, and knitting.
Meeting Location: Lower Narthex
