This Sunday we welcome Steph Page of Stories Foundation to worship. She will be sharing her ministry to end and help victims heal from human trafficking. Steph will also continue preaching on 1 John 2:1-17 in our Beloved Community series.

Paddle Boat Tour-July 12

Join some Crosstown friends for a trip down the Mississippi on a Paddle Boat. So iconic! This is a great Monday afternoon outing that is senior friendly, and the price is right at $10 a person!

All ages are welcome to join Nathan and Kristi Johnson for this 90-minute tour starting at 2:30pm. Please let us know if you need transportation assistance to Harriet Island.

The one hitch is that you have to buy your own ticket (link below) and contact Kristi if you need help. When it asks you who you want to be seated next to put our names :)

VBS is for children ages 4 years-entering 6th grade.

🥯 🧃 🍪 Check out the VBS display at church this Sunday for volunteer opportunities and snack donation needs.

What’s next? This final project is the culmination of a plan made nearly two decades ago. The full plan will be presented in the July 18th Congregational Meeting and voted on to proceed. The plan has evolved a little with the changing technologies and program needs. This constant change means that we can’t expect to upgrade the church once and think we are done. However, the changes we make now focus on flexibility so that most future needs may get resolved by upgrades during maintenance or replacement of failing equipment. In other words, the SRC hopes that these changes will make future changes easier and less costly.

The bill for the Sanctuary Renovation Project (SRP) is about $79,322 (which includes some outside expenses and a 10% contingency for cost over-runs), the question of how we pay the bill is forefront. Undesignated bequest funds would pay outright for 50% of the SRP and a capital campaign would fund the remaining 50%. Please read more about the plan details here. If this seems like a worthwhile investment in our church, its ministries, and the surrounding community, the SRC encourages you to step up and make an early donation to support the project.

How, you ask? Contact any member of the SRC: Dennis Olson, Pastor John, Michelle Acosta, Mike Anderson, Debby Berfeldt, Josh Smith, Bob Weides, or Marcia Wilkins. Also, Financial Secretary, Liana Ogawa, will take and record any donation. We ask that all donations to the SRP are in addition to regular giving so that the maintenance of our church and its ministries don’t suffer.

The SRC thanks you in advance for any donations or commitments you can make to the SRP. Those commitments are a vote for the future of Crosstown Covenant Church and its ministries.

Read more about the proposal, bids, process, and funding here.

Special Congregational Meeting July 18 after the service in person and on Zoom.

We will dive into a book by Daniel Hill, White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to be White. This is a continuation of Crosstown's work to pursue the "ARC of Racial Justice: Awareness, Relationships, Commitment." For those who are white to move forward in the hard work of wrestling with what it means to be white in America, this book provides an opportunity for the Holy Spirit to deepen our ability to "SEE" the presence of racial injustice.

Conversations are Tuesdays in person @ 7:00pm July 6, 13, 20 and August 3

or Mondays on Zoom @ 12:00pm July 12, 19, 26 and August 2 (Zoom link)

RSVP to Pastor John by July 6. Please purchase your own book.

Healing House Worship Service Needs You- July 17

This event is an opportunity for us to serve and invest in our neighborhood. Metro Hope is a residential drug and alcohol recovery program serving men, women, and mothers with children just a few miles from us. We get to coordinate and lead one of their Saturday morning chapel services. We need people to coordinate refreshments, serve refreshments, provide childcare during the service, lead worship, and do the teaching.

We're going to be at Healing House, the women and children's center, on July 17 from 9:30am -11:00. The location address is kept confidential until it's closer to our date. My understanding is that they're also located in south Minneapolis. Please RSVP to Angie or Polly by July 13.

Community Caring Commission- July 11

Formerly the Hospitality & Friendship Commission has a meeting after church on July 11th in the Heritage Room. The main topic will be improving welcome on Sunday for guests. We would love to hear your thoughts on this topic and joining the commission is not required.

This is a very interesting 15 minute video about how to better think about welcoming GUESTS into our church home. How to see welcome from different views. We encourage you to watch.

🙏 Prayer for Crosstown

Did you know that Elders, Deacons, and Staff meet once a month to pray on Zoom? In these fluctuating times and time of Adaptive Leadership discernment, it is important for leadership to stay spiritually connected. Please continue to pray for our church leadership, both volunteer and paid.

Have you been considering being baptized? Have you recently made a life commitment to follow Jesus as your Lord? We would love to hear about it and celebrate. Please contact Pastor John or Pastor Polly. We plan to host one baptism in Minneapolis on August 29 and one at Covenant Pines on September 18.

July 16th at Veterans Park @ 10:00am

July 19th at Wolk Park @ 6:00pm

All the date, time, and location details in the church app under the Children's calendar.

The purpose of this scholarship is to encourage faith-filled members of Crosstown to pursue careers in the field of medicine. This includes doctors, nurses, physician’s assistants, nursing assistants, psychiatrists, and other caregivers. This scholarship is for education of current practitioners as well as those currently enrolled in a career in medicine. Application deadline is July 31, 2021, with the scholarship being awarded in August 2021. Applications and guidelines are available upon request. Please contact Mike Anderson at mike-anderson@outlook.com or by phone at 952-250-7689.

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