Central News

Keep up with what’s going on at Central.

  • 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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  • C3 Team
Leaf Raking Message from the C3 Team

This is a C3 team reminder for those with a lawn to start thinking about getting your rake out next month and raking leaves before they end up in storm water drains.

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  • Fine Arts Ministry Team
New Central Art Show Celebrates Indigenous Lutheran Artists

Central’s Fine Arts Team is excited to present this special showing of art from Lutheran artists who are Indigenous North Americans. This exhibit is meant to both acknowledge and celebrate the breadth and beauty of Indigenous contributions to the Lutheran faith.

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  • Generosity Ministry Team
Central’s Generosity Shines Through Again

The housewares drive for the Restoration Center’s Welcome Baskets was announced in the Spirit. The response was, as usual for Central, overwhelming.

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Life Together

Weekly reflections from the preaching pastor.

  • Rev. Peter Nycklemoe
Arriving Where We Started

Jesus tends to our human frailty and limitation by reminding us of our home in God. Our human frailty and limitation are where we begin and end.

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  • Rev. Stephanie Friesen
Home in the Kingdom of Heaven

Many of us can imagine the faces and the presence of the saints who enriched our lives. We can imagine those who taught us to love and live in faith and hope, knowing that we, too, are just visitors.

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  • Rev. Peter Nycklemoe
Reformation Weekend

At Reformation, we celebrate the good news of God’s love for all. Martin Luther experienced a deep awareness of God’s unconditional love for all, a mercy that comes from God and is for you and for me.

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  • Rev. Stephanie Friesen
Stories of Home from Across the World

In celebration and gratitude for these partners in mission, you are invited and encouraged to join the celebration as we mark this Global Mission weekend. Come and hear their stories of home from the other side of the world.

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  • Rev. Melissa Pohlman
Faith in a Healing God

This weekend in our stories from Scripture, people are dealing with what it means when your very own body doesn’t feel like home. Naaman is someone who has always been in complete control.

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  • Rev. Peter Nycklemoe
Mustard Seeds

A wise teacher once taught a group of us that mustard seeds are filled with potential, should not be underestimated, and like all seeds, they grow by their inherent power and grace.

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