Events List
Week of Events
Sunday, September 28, 2025
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September 28, 2025 -Worship
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September 28, 2025 -Sunday Formation for Kids and Youth
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September 28, 2025 -Adult Forum
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September 28, 2025 -Worship
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September 28, 2025 -Align Central
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September 28, 2025 -Sunday Community Meal
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September 28, 2025 -Life Series (II): Brain Health
Worship
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…
Sunday Formation for Kids and Youth
Central's young people gather for Sunday School, Confirmation, and High School Youth Group for fellowship and learning together.
Adult Forum
The 2025-26 program year Adult Forums will be grounded in conversations that align with Stories of Home.
Worship
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.…
Align Central
The Align Central Team helps communicate our advocacy invitations to the rest of the congregation. Folks with lived experience of homelessness know what’s best for them and their experience, so the Central Align team is an ally to them in systems change. This team responds and takes action where they are invited, when it comes…
Sunday Community Meal
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.
Life Series (II): Brain Health
It’s never too late to boost your brain health. This session will explore the six pillars of brain health and activities that support brain health.
Monday, September 29, 2025
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September 29, 2025 -Health Commons
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September 29, 2025 -Free Store Shopping (M)
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September 29, 2025 -Flu Shot Clinic
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September 29, 2025 -Worship (M)
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September 29, 2025 -Monday Community Meal
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September 29, 2025 -Spiritual Listening
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September 29, 2025 -StreetSong MN Rehearsal
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September 29, 2025 -Emergency Rental Assistance Intake (M)
Health Commons
This nurse-led drop-in center is focused on meeting people where they are to respond to any expressed felt need of those who visit, especially as it pertains to health.
Free Store Shopping (M)
The Free Store is open Mondays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., and Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Flu Shot Clinic
The Augsburg Central Health Commons will offer flu shots for the entire community, including those 65+, on a walk-in basis.
Worship (M)
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…
Spiritual Listening
Pastor Melissa leads this weekly conversation, drawing from the Ignatian Spirituality Project and the ways it opens us all.
StreetSong MN Rehearsal
StreetSong draws on the experiences, hopes, and aspirations of its members to produce a choral experience promoting personal fulfillment and the development of community.
Emergency Rental Assistance Intake (M)
The program supports individuals and families by providing rental assistance in a time of short-term financial crisis.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
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September 30, 2025 -Staff Meeting
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September 30, 2025 -ICC Task Force
ICC Task Force
The ICC Task Force works to find creative and community-driven ways to invite people to Central.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
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October 1, 2025 -Free Store Shopping (W)
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October 1, 2025 -Emergency Rental Assistance Intake (W)
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October 1, 2025 -Prayer Ministry Team
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October 1, 2025 -Handbell Choir Rehearsal
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October 1, 2025 -Wednesday Night Bible Study
Free Store Shopping (W)
The Free Store is open Mondays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., and Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Emergency Rental Assistance Intake (W)
The program supports individuals and families by providing rental assistance in a time of short-term financial crisis.
Handbell Choir Rehearsal
The Central Lutheran Church Bell Choir performs a variety of handbell music throughout the program year.
Wednesday Night Bible Study
These Bible studies are created so that you can come in person or online, every week or when it fits your schedule, so plan to come whenever you can.
Thursday, October 2, 2025
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October 2, 2025 -Street Voices of Change
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October 2, 2025 -Quilters for LWR
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October 2, 2025 -Health Commons
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October 2, 2025 -Streets to Housing
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October 2, 2025 -Free Store Shopping (Th)
Street Voices of Change
These meetings are places where people invest in and empower each other to build a loving community.
Health Commons
This nurse-led drop-in center is focused on meeting people where they are to respond to any expressed felt need of those who visit, especially as it pertains to health.
Free Store Shopping (Th)
The Free Store is open Mondays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., and Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Friday, October 3, 2025
No events on this day.
Saturday, October 4, 2025
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October 4, 2025 -Presiding Bishop Installation
Presiding Bishop Installation
The Rev. Yehiel Curry's installation as presiding bishop of the ELCA will be held at Central.
