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In-Person Worship
8:30AM & 10:30AM
YouTube Livestream at 10:30AM
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Isaiah's Vineyard Song
Readings:
First Reading: Mark 12:1-3
Preaching Text: Isaiah 5:1-7; 11:1- 5
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Click on the link below to watch the YouTube Livestream worship service this Sunday. | |
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Beacon Speakers This Sunday
Craig Freeman and Mohamed Jama from Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative will be introducing themselves during each service and will have a forum in between services.
Craig Freeman: As Community Connection Manager, Craig shares Beacon’s vision that all people have a home, no exceptions, with both future and current Beacon leaders and supporters. By leading informational tours, presenting to congregations, civic organizations, or businesses, and representing Beacon in public, he works to increase the organization’s capacity to provide homes.
Mohamed Jama: A congregational organizer for NW Hennepin suburbs.
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Bring Your 2024 Pledge Cards To Worship This Sunday!
This Sunday we will receive your 2024 pledge cards during our offering time of worship. We will also have a special blessing of the pledges. We welcome pledge cards after that date if you are not able to attend, simply mail back to church, or drop off in the office. Someone from our congregation stewardship team will be contacting those who have not responded as we want to hear from everyone, even if you do not plan to fill out a formal pledge card. Simply send that in as is, and respond with your intentions even if you do not have an amount listed. It will help us to know that you received your packet. Thank you for your giving!
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Thanksgiving Eve Worship
Wednesday, November 22nd at 6:30PM
Join us for a service of thanksgiving, contemplation and prayer on the night before our holiday. We will also have fellowship time of pie and coffee following the service. We would welcome any pie donations for this event. Let us know in the office if you would like to donate a pie.
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Ministry Scheduler Pro
We’re coming to the end of our first scheduling cycle with Ministry Scheduler Pro. The next schedule will come out on December 1st. If there’s anything about this schedule that was incorrect (ministries you participate in, services you attend, for example), or if you just don’t understand how to work with the system, talk to Pastor Stephanie or Audrey Faust after church any Sunday in November. We’ll do everything possible to help make things work for you!
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Other News & Church Activities | |
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Crosswinds E-News
Next Week
Due to the Holiday next week, St. Barnabas will be closed on November 23rd & 24th and we will not be sending out the E-News.
Happy Thanksgiving
to You and Your Family.
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Women’s Retreat Opportunity ~ This Sunday
Calling all women interested in both hiking and art, and who are interested in spending time with others with those interests. We will meet in the Alcove at 11:45am this Sunday Sunday to learn about a women’s retreat opportunity. Talk to Pastor Stephanie if you have any questions.
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College Student Care Packages
We would like to remind our college students that we love them and are thinking about them, especially as exam time is coming up. Help us so to sending out care packages shortly after Thanksgiving. Parents- please give Pastor Stephanie your students’ college addresses so we know where to send the packages. Congregation- please consider donating to the packages- we could use hot cocoa, microwave popcorn, fun post-its note pads, pens, chapsticks, and any other little comforts you can think of!
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JustGifts Market
December 2nd & 3rd
The JustGifts Market Committee is gearing up for our 20th Anniversary! Please help us celebrate by visiting the market Dec. 2nd & 3rd! If you're new to St. Barnabas, the JustGifts Market is an alternative Christmas market where shoppers are able to buy a variety of handmade and fairtrade items, and/or donate to charities in lieu of a physical gift for anyone on your list who's hard to shop for!
Calling All Crafters & Artists! Artists and crafters, as you work on your handmade projects this fall, please keep the market in mind! 100% of the sale of donated items goes to the charities featured at the market. Past items include sewn/crocheted/knitted items for adults and babies, jewelry, kitchen items, home decor, Christmas decorations, packaged food items, paper goods, cards, visual art, glass, woodworking, and flower arrangements.
Please bring items to the church office by Monday, November 27. Contact Jessica Gaedke at [email protected] with questions.
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Morpheus Concert ~ Saturday, December 9th | |
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Cub Foods Stamps
On behalf of our Quilter's group, I'd like to give a huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed Cub stamps. Your generosity enabled us to donate four covered skillets, six covered 3 quart pots and two 2 quart pots to Esperanza United.
Blessings,
Jackie Madison
Stamps are still trickling in so we may be able to get a few more items.
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Seniors & Friends ~ November 14th
Thank you Don Collier for preparing such a wonderful meal and to all the volunteers that helped out from start to finish.
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Christmas Dinner Sign-up
If you (or you and your significant other) are alone on Christmas Day, please join us at St. Barnabas. Don Collier will serve dinner in the Ministry Center at 1:00pm! The tentative menu will be ham, potatoes, vegetables, and dessert. We’re sorry but we can’t guarantee meeting any dietary restrictions. There's a sign-up sheet in the Narthex and the deadline is Sunday, December 18th so we can plan food.
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"BEET HUNGER" Another Week of Beet Pickling!
We had a team hard at work again yesterday making pickled beets. They even had a first aid kit on standby for all of the sugar that was used...lol.
Total made for 2023: 141 quarts, 199 pints & one 1/2 pint.
Thanks to everyone who pitched in this week.
The pickled beets are for sale in the narthex. Pints $8.00 and Quarts $12.00.
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REMINDER...TURN OFF LIGHTS !
When you're at church for a meeting or event during or after office hours and you're the last one out, please remember to turn off all the lights and lock the main entrance doors upon leaving. Thank you.
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November "Gift of Love"
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative
We believe in home. Our many faiths call us to act to create more equitable communities where all people have a home. Beacon is a non-profit collaborative of nearly 100 congregations of all faiths in Minnesota. As volunteers, we help advocate for new low-income housing and funding for buildings, services and rent support. Over 500,000 people in Minnesota are unable to afford their rent. Our church has been active in Beacon for nearly 10 years. It is part of the Justice and Outreach ministry at St. Barnabas Lutheran Church.
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IOCP
Food Shelf Most Needed Items
Brand Name Cereal
Hearty Soup
Healthy Snacks (e.g. popcorn, crackers, granola bars)
Healthy Beverages (e.g. sparkling water, tea, juice boxes)
Paper Grocery Bags (These are expensive to purchase and offer you an opportunity to recycle the bags you don’t need.)
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Santa’s Mailbox
Santa is accepting mail in Plymouth – and he’s even writing back. Families may drop off letters for Santa Monday, Nov. 20 to Friday, Dec. 1.
Letters are accepted at the following locations:
- Plymouth City Hall, 3400 Plymouth Blvd.
- Plymouth Ice Center, 3650 Plymouth Blvd.
- Plymouth Community Center, 14800 34th Ave. N.
Santa’s helpers will send a personalized response to all letters. Letters must include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
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Want something in the E-News?
Do you want your small group information, community activities or church news in the
weekly E-News? Please email your articles to Brenda Ericson with all the details by Wednesday morning of the week you want it shared.
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Church Council Minutes
Copies of the minutes are available in the narthex. They are also located on our website.
If you'd like to be added to the email list, call the church office at 763-553-1239
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Bulletin Delivery
Want a Bulletin Delivered? For those who are not able to access the worship video, some of our BeFrienders will deliver printed copies of the bulletin on Friday's or Saturday's.
If you'd like to have a Bulletin dropped off, you can call the church office at
763-553-1239.
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