In This Edition:
- Worship this Sunday in person at 8:00 and 9:30
- Offerings in Lent
- Holy Week and Easter
- Staffing Update: Office Assistant at St. David's
- Mill City String Quartet Concert
- Coffee Hour Update
- Children and Youth Update
- Prayer Shawl Ministry
- Loaves and Fishes
- Bring it Home MN
- St. David's Book Club News
- ICA Update
- Regular Offerings
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Hildegard of Bingen
St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a German mystic, writer, composer and artist who challenged church and culture and spoke of the feminine aspects of God. Click here to read about Hildegard of Bingen in Father Richard Rohr's daily reflections.
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This Sunday: The Fourth Sunday in Lent |
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Join us for live, in person worship at both 8:00 and 9:30 this Sunday. We'll SING TOGETHER (remaining masked)! And plan to stay for coffee hour and to hear parishioner Gervaye Parent share stories of her life and faith (see announcement below). We'll welcome the Rev. Chris Boehm Carlson, who grew up at St. David's, as our guest preacher and celebrant. And Children and Youth Minister Anna Brock will offer a brief children's sermon during the 9:30 service.
Please continue to wear a good fitting, N95, KN95, or KF94 mask as you attend services, and remember not to come if you are feeling sick at all. We will have these types of masks available at church if you do not have one. COVID vaccinations with boosters offer yet another layer of protection, and are also strongly encouraged for all who are able. We will continue to Facebook Livestream and upload to YouTube to accommodate for those who choose to stay home.
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Sharing Life Together Deeply:
Growing Where We are Planted
What a privilege it will be to hear members of our community share stories of their life and faith during a special Lenten Series, "Sharing Life Together Deeply: Growing Where We are Planted". Please join us, live, in the Undercroft, following the 9:30 service on each of the five Sundays of Lent. Thank you, in advance, to those who have agreed to share their stories with us:
March 27: Gervaye Parent
April 3: Launa Tucker
We'll take time for small group reflection after each presentation. Join us!
Note: most or all of the presentations will be videotaped and available for viewing afterwards.
Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent
Each Sunday in Lent we will supply a bulletin insert that can guide your own Lenten practices during the week. Click here to link to each Sunday's insert.
Brother, Give Us a Word
A wonderful option for Lent is to subscribe to receive a daily word for reflection delivered by email from the Brothers at the Society of St. John the Evangelist. Click here to subscribe.
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Palm Sunday, April 10: One service only at 9:30 AM, including a blessing of the palms with procession and a reading of the Passion narrative.
Maundy Thursday, April 14: An Agape supper in the Undercroft at 6:00 with foot washing and Holy Eucharist.
Good Friday, April 15: Stations of the Cross at noon in the Sanctuary, and a Taize service at 7:00 PM.
Easter Sunday, April 17: One service only at 9:30 AM. Resurrection Egg Hunt following the service of Holy Eucharist!
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Help us make a joyful noise for Easter! |
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We’re looking for as many singers and instrumentalists as possible to help with music for Easter Sunday (April 17). If you like to sing, join us on any of the next three Wednesdays from 7:00 to 7:30, and for a big group rehearsal after church on Palm Sunday (April 10). The choir music for that day will be easy and festive. And if you play an instrument, contact Roger and he’ll arrange some music for you. Practice times for instrumentalists will vary. Email rstratton@stdavidsparish.org for more information. Thank you!
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Staffing Update: Office Assistant at St. David's
see below for a note from Maddie and Anna
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We have been richly blessed by parishioner Maddie Harvala's ministry with us in her role as Interim Office Assistant and we wish her well as she leaves this staff role to move into her next professional position as a Project Assistant at Westwood Professional Services. We are searching for a permanent Office Assistant. Click here to learn more about the position. Please share this posting within your networks! And we continue to be blessed: Children and Youth Minister Anna Brock has stepped in as Interim Office Assistant while we continue our search. The email address for the office remains the same: office@stdavidsparish.org.
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Hi all! I'm grateful to Maddie's organization skills and patience in showing me the ropes. I want to remind folks that the deadline to get updates to the office to be sent in the weekly email is Wednesday at noon. I also want to keep office things and children and youth things separate as they are two different roles, so please continue sending all office needs and inquiries to office@stdavidsparish.org and all and any children and youth ministry things to abrock@stdavidsparish.org.
I'm excited to serve in this new way!
Thank you.
~ Anna
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Hello St. David's! I wanted to say before I step away from the Office Assistant role that it does not mean that I am stepping away from St. David's as a whole. I am still on the Vestry and a member of the bell choir, so I won't be disappearing! Not to mention I love you all very much! I have appreciated working here in this administrative capacity, but I am really excited the job I'm starting and I look forward to strengthening my relationship with you all as a parishioner (again). Please email me at maddie.harvala@gmail.com or text me at (952) 412-9074 if you want to reach me about anything!
Love, Maddie
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Mill City String Quartet Concert |
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Saturday, April 16, 1:00 pm
St. David's Sanctuary
Who's ready for some chamber music?! We are delighted to invite you to a wonderful concert the day before Easter! MCSQ desires to amplify the voices of people of culture in the classical music idiom. This concert features "Modes" by Dorothy Rudd Moore, Florence Price's "Five Folk Songs in Counterpoint" and Shelley Washington's "Middleground." We'll also be performing Sergei Prokofiev's String Quartet No. 2 in F Major.
The concert is free with all donations going to St. David's Episcopal Church.
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What a joy to be back for Coffee Hour in the Undercroft! Others must be feeling that way, too, judging from the large turnout the past two weeks. If any of you are wondering if there’s some way to help this effort, there is! Please check the Host signup sheet in the Undercroft to add your availability to the list. You will even have a guide to shepherd you through this process if you are new at it. There’s even a container marked “Cookies” in the freezer if you need help providing snacks. For those who are unable to host, adding baked or bought items to the “Cookies” container would be a huge help. See you at coffee!
Thank you.
Sharon Engel
763-732-9418
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Update on Children and Youth Programming |
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Children’s Ministry: There will be no Godly Play offered this Sunday, March 27th during the 9:30 service. Children are invited to fully participate in worship. Make sure to check out the play rug in the front row of the sanctuary, opposite the lectern! This is where the children's sermon will take place during the 9:30 service.
Middle School Ministry: No Youth Group this Wednesday, March 30th. Happy Spring Break!
High School Ministry: No Youth Group this Sunday, March 27th. Happy Spring Break!
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Save the Date – YOUTH RETREAT – Mark in your calendar August 5-7. All youth going into 6th-12th grade are invited to the St. David’s and Trinity Youth Retreat at Green Lake Bible Camp in Spicer, MN.
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The prayer shawl ministry is asking for some help from anyone proficient in operating a serger.
Give Joanne Allan a call at (952) 938-2226 If you can help.
Thanks!
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St. David's volunteers will be serving hot takeout meals at St.Gabriel's in Hopkins on March 29. The transition from serving meals on-site to handing out to-go meals has resulted in a need for fewer volunteers than in the past. We already have the 3 volunteers that we need for this upcoming event, but stay tuned for future opportunities to serve in this long-running St David's outreach mission! |
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Beacon interfaith Housing Collaborative of which St. David’s is a partner, is asking for our help to advocate for funding from the state legislature for a program called Bring It Home MN.
What is it: Bring it Home, Minnesota is state legislation (Bill: HF40 HF2220 / SF333)
to fund rental support for all Minnesotans who qualify. This policy would ensure every Minnesotan gets the rent support they deserve. We would achieve this through rent vouchers. Rent vouchers help people with lower incomes find and stay in their homes. A rent voucher is a simple, cost-effective solution for
housing stability. When a family qualifies, they receive a housing voucher that allows them to find a private market apartment that meets their needs. After they find the apartment, the voucher covers the difference between the 30% of the family’s income and the market-rate cost of rent for the apartment.
How you can help: Send a digital post card to your legislator using this link:
It’s easy to do and takes just minutes! If this bill is passed this session, over 500,000 families from across MN, who can’t afford the high cost of rent, will benefit. Families in the Families Moving Forward program will be able to transition from staying in a hotel to having a permanent home of their own. We have the resources to pass Bring It Home MN THIS YEAR but legislators need to hear from all of us to make it happen. Show your support by filling out the “digital postcard” today.
Let’s set a goal of 50 people from St. David’s will send this digital postcard before the end of March!! Join in the Joyful Urgency as people of faith, to advocate for all people to have a home.
What’s happened to Cranberry Ridge?
Ten years in the making, Cranberry Ridge will be opening this spring!! This is Beacon’s housing development for 45 families needing affordable housing in Plymouth, MN . Many of St. David’s parishioners spent time in meetings, advocacy work and city council meetings moving this housing forward and it’s finally going to happen!!!!
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St. David's Book Club News |
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by Cathy Schwichtenberg
St. David’s Book Club will meet on Tuesday, 4/5 from 6:30 pm to 7:55 pm via Zoom. We will be discussing The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich. Drawing on her grandfather's letters, written while he was tribal chairman, Erdrich re-creates a shameful chapter in America's history when Congress introduced a bill to terminate the treaty rights of Native tribes, which would force assimilation and pave the way for a land grab.
It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at a jewel bearing plant, the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - 'Patrice' - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minneapolis, Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera. Among other friends and acquaintances of Patrice, we meet Hay Stack Jones, a white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice. In The Night Watchman multi-award winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress. She grapples with the worst and best impulses of human nature, illuminating the loves and lives, desires and ambitions of her characters with compassion, wit and intelligence.
~Library Journal and Hclib.org
Please join us for an interesting discussion of this excellent book!
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Minnesota Foodshare Campaign Ending Soon
In one more week the 2022 Minnesota Food Share Campaign to collect food and raise funds will be ending. All funds donated this month will be matched, so your gift goes even further. With ICA’s buying power, they are able to buy more food for the same dollar. Every $20 donated to ICA will provide 20 meals for folks right here in our communitywho are experiencing food insecurity. If you would like to donate, go to icafoodshelf.org/march-donation. Or if you prefer, you can send a check to the ICA at 11290 St. David’s Road, Minnetonka 55305.
March Round-ups for ICA
If you are shopping at Lakewinds Food Coop, Driskill’s Downtown Market or Tonkadale Greenhouse anytime yet this month, make sure to round up your purchases. These local businesses show their support of ICA with the donations of March round-ups.
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This Week at St. David's! |
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Featured Events
- Worship and Holy Eucharist in the Sanctuary
- 8:00 and 9:30 AM on Sunday, March 27th
- Sharing Life Together Deeply, hear from Gervaye Parent
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Adult forum, after the 9:30 service on Sunday, March 27th
Want to view the full calendar for the week? Click here to view the St. David's website complete with a calendar to keep you updated on events and offerings! Scroll all the way to the bottom to view it.
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In this time of the coronavirus pandemic, the need to reach our most vulnerable parishioners has been great. Our 11 person Pastoral Care Team has stepped up to the plate and has been regularly calling around 24 St. David's members and families to share in remote fellowship, prayer, and conversation to determine if we, as a community, could help address any of their unmet needs. We are pleased to report that virtually all of these parishioners are doing well so far and have their basic needs met by their facilities and/or family. They are in good spirits and continue to remain resilient in the face of isolation and uncertainty.
If you find yourself in need of food or other resources, please contact:
or:
and we will assist you in finding solutions.
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Pastoral Care Line: 952-767-0891 |
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To add someone to the prayers, please contact the office: office@stdavidsparish.org
We will include all individuals in the prayers list for four consecutive weeks, and then they will be removed from the list. If the prayer need is ongoing, please reach out and we will keep their names on the list. If anyone's prayer need is shorter than four weeks, please also note that. This way we will keep all prayer lists updated and recent.
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Prayers and Passages
We pray for healing of body, mind or spirit for those we love, especially Richard Austin (father of Holly Lamond), William Cadwell (son of Philip Cadwell), Josh Claxton (friend of Mary Mann), Christina Dorr Drake (daughter-in-law of Nan and Guy Drake), Laurie Domeier (friend of Harvala family), Mark Enos (friend of Keith Gause), Karen Flood (friend of Cliff Crockford), Maggie Flynn (daughter of Karin Lindquist and Andy Scheu), Lindsay Hardin Freeman, Jackie Galich (John Galich's mother), Dan Greer (nephew of LaMar Popp), Dick Hanson (friend of Bill Jacobs), Allison Hatcher, Don Hatteberg (Andy Scheu's brother in law), Ann Henjum (daughter of Bob Triebenbach), Denny Johnson, Joan MacDonald, Joseph (JoJo) McLaughlin and family (Shea Brendalen's nephew), Jerry Mashek (uncle of Steph Pederson), Josie Meyer and family (friend of the Handley-Jurkovich family), Faith Odegbami, Joy Sanders, Amara Strande (daughter of the Rev. Dana Strande), Johannah Surma (daughter of Karin Lindquist and Andy Scheu), and Dick Woellner.
We pray for those who have died, especially Janice Lord Mott (sister in law of Gretchen Lord) and for all who die in war.
We pray for all who suffer or serve in war. We pray for Ukraine and for peacemakers everywhere.
We pray for schools and for all who work in them.
We pray for all who have been born.
We pray for an end to racism and all systems of oppression.
We pray in thanksgiving for all the blessings of this life.
We pray for those serving in the military, Will Culliton, Aprille Lopac, and Kaelyn Wahlberg.
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COVID-19 Resources Available
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