Events List
7 events found.
Week of Events
Sunday, December 7, 2025
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December 7, 2025 -Worship
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December 7, 2025 -Adult Forum
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December 7, 2025 -Realm Database Support
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December 7, 2025 -Worship
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December 7, 2025 -Sunday Community Meal
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December 7, 2025 -New Member Welcome Info Session
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December 7, 2025 -Central Cares for Creation Team
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…
Adult Forum
The 2025-26 program year Adult Forums will be grounded in conversations that align with Stories of Home.
Realm Database Support
Pat Hansen will be at the Welcome Desk this Sunday (and every first Sunday of the month) to help you update your profile.
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.…
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.
New Member Welcome Info Session
If you are interested in joining, you are invited to a gathering on Sunday, December 7 at 11:45 a.m. in Fireside to meet with available pastors and staff, learn about Central, and ask any questions you may have
Central Cares for Creation Team
The Central Cares for Creation Team works hard to help the congregation be as eco-friendly as possible, to educate the congregation about eco-issues, and to identify areas for the church to engage in advocacy around climate justice. Meeting Room: Nativity
Monday, December 8, 2025
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December 8, 2025 -Free Store Shopping (M)
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December 8, 2025 -Health Commons
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December 8, 2025 -Worship (M)
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December 8, 2025 -Monday Community Meal
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December 8, 2025 -Spiritual Listening
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December 8, 2025 -StreetSong MN Rehearsal
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December 8, 2025 -Décor Ministry Team
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
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December 9, 2025 -Staff Meeting
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December 9, 2025 -December OWLS Event
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December 9, 2025 -Fine Arts Ministry Team
December OWLS Event
Don your Christmas best and gather with your Central family for this delightful annual tradition.
Fine Arts Ministry Team
The Fine Arts Ministry Team is meeting! This group organizes, plans, and displays unique art shows at Central.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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December 10, 2025 -Executive Committee
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December 10, 2025 -Free Store Shopping (W)
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December 10, 2025 -Advent Bible Study
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is an elected team of four members: President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary. The Executive Committee meets in advance of the council to plan the meeting agenda and gather the work of other committees, teams, and task forces that will need council affirmation and support. Meeting Location: Zoom
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.
Advent Bible Study
Join us for a three-week Bible study series, “Advent Stories of Home." You can join us in person or on Zoom.
Thursday, December 11, 2025
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December 11, 2025 -Street Voices of Change
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December 11, 2025 -Streets to Housing
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December 11, 2025 -Health Commons
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December 11, 2025 -Free Store Shopping (Th)
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December 11, 2025 -Fiscal and Property Committee
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December 11, 2025 -Central Book Club
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.
Fiscal and Property Committee
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,…
Central Book Club
The Central Book Club, led by volunteers, is a space for guided conversations about books chosen by the group. We look toward faith and life in everything we read, across a variety of genres.
Friday, December 12, 2025
No events on this day.
Saturday, December 13, 2025
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December 13, 2025 -Wedding of Sophie Newcomb and Brett Erickson
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December 13, 2025 -Worship (Sa)
Wedding of Sophie Newcomb and Brett Erickson
We celebrate the wedding of Sophie Newcomb and Brett Erickson at 3 p.m. at Central.
Worship (Sa)
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…