Central News

Keep up with what’s going on at Central.

  • C3 Team
Central is now Climate Justice Certified!

The Central Cares for Creation (C3) Team applied and was selected to join other congregations as a Certified Climate Justice Congregation (CJC).

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  • Fine Arts Ministry Team
New Art Show from Artist seangarrison!

The Central Fine Arts Ministry Team is proud to present a new art show from artist seangarrison. seangarrison (b.1968) is a native Detroiter currently residing in Minneapolis, MN. He is a writer and abstract painter.

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  • C3 Team
Regenerative Agriculture: It’s All About the Soil!

It is no coincidence Thanksgiving occurs around the end of the harvest season. Our beloved farmers have toiled since spring to produce a harvest to feed and nourish us. We thank God for their vocation and efforts.

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  • Align Central
Hope for Home: Sabbath to End Homelessness

Throughout the Sabbath to End Homelessness weekend, Align Central will be offering opportunities to find answers to these questions through prayers in worship, displays in the Great Room, the game simulation at the Adult Forum, and at Empowering Conversations.

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  • C3 Team
A Message from the C3 Team: Bat Week

Bats provide major ecological and economic benefits in Minnesota. They consume thousands of insects each night, including mosquitoes and crop-damaging beetles.

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  • C3 Team
The True Cost of the Cell Phone

Cell phones are expensive, ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to well over a thousand dollars. The actual cost is much greater due to the impact production, use, and disposal of cell phones has on the environment.

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Life Together

Weekly reflections from the preaching pastor.

  • Rev. Peter Nycklemoe
What Are You Looking For?

Where in the top ten of human questions do you put Jesus’ question in this weekend’s Gospel reading: “What are you looking for?” On one level, it is a basic question, one we ask family and friends when we see them searching for something, like where they left their keys or coffee cup.

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  • Rev. Stephanie Friesen
Celebrating Baptisms

Remembering our baptisms is a time to celebrate. Whether we were baptized as infants, young adults, or in old age, God was present in the Word and in the Water. God claimed us, infused us with the Spirit, and commissioned us to become co-creators with God

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  • Rev. Melissa Pohlman
We Are the Light

All the buildup, all the anticipation, and all the glitter gives way to crisp, clear, dark January nights. The kind of nights when the stars shine so bright that you can see them from my backyard in North Minneapolis.

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  • Rev. Peter Nycklemoe
Emmanuel, God With Us

In Isaiah and Revelation, we hear the invitation to “look” and “see.” On Christmas Eve, we visualize that manger scene, that Mary “gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth...

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  • Rev. Peter Nycklemoe
A Place to Share All of Life

A church home is a place where we share all of life. As people of faith, called and gathered by the Holy Spirit, we show up in God’s presence on the good days and the not-so-good days.

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  • Rev. Melissa Pohlman
A Hope to Carry Us Through

Jesus’ people have been through a lot. It hasn’t been easy to leave all they had and follow him. Jesus has warned them about the wolves that are coming to devour them, the persecutions they are about to go through, and the long and difficult path they will have.

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