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This Sunday, June 22, 2025
Second Sunday after Pentecost
One Service of Holy Eucharist at 9:30
Guest Preacher & Celebrant: Bishop Loya
Including a baptism, confirmation, reception and ECMN Youth Camp Send-Off
The Nursery will be open during the 9:30 service and forum time.
Forum: Presentation from Bishop Loya & Conversation
We continue to Facebook Livestream the Sunday 9:30 service and upload to YouTube.
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This Sunday, June 22nd
Welcome Bishop Rt. Rev. Craig Loya! - Sunday June 22nd the Bishop of Minnesota will be with us presiding over,
- a baptism,
- a confirmation,
- and a reception into the Episcopal church!
We also look forward to a send-off for St. David's Youth attending ECMN Youth Camp.
Here is a little more about Bishop Loya,
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The Rt. Rev. Craig Loya is the tenth bishop of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. He was consecrated on June 6, 2020.
Bishop Loya served as Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska from 2013-2020. Prior to that, he was the Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas from 2009-2013. He received his Master of Divinity from Yale University and a Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in 2002.
Bishop Loya and his wife, Melissa, have two children, Mari and Asa.
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A Message from the Bishop:
[On the morning of June 14th] in Minnesota, we woke up to the chilling news that two of our state legislators had been shot in their homes by someone impersonating a law enforcement officer. House Speaker emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband were both killed in the attack. [State Senator John Hoffman and his wife are in stable condition and recovering from their injures.]
This news comes against the backdrop in recent weeks of immigration raids being carried out by militarized law enforcement, and celebrated with cruel delight by government officials, the military being deployed in Los Angeles against U.S. citizens, to stop protests in that city, and on a day when the President of the United States has threatened to meet any protestors present at a military parade in the capitol with “heavy force.” The tensions we have lived with for many years now are boiling over to new levels. Those inclined to the kind of murderous violence that occurred in Minnesota today are surrounded by a national climate that encourages those impulses.
Human communities, from congregations to countries, always take on the energy of their leaders. That’s true regardless of how popular the leader might be. The President of the United States, and the senior members of his administration, have, for nearly six months now, led with a chaotic, intentionally provocative, and vindictive energy against perceived critics and enemies, and that is eroding the foundations of our common life and order, and empowering anyone inclined to that same vindictive violence.
As Christians, we proclaim as Lord the one who met a murderous and vindictive empire, not with retributive or self-protective violence, but with immovable love. That love, though he died for it, was not a passive resignation to evil, but a refusal to engage it on its own terms.
As followers of the Lord of immovable love, his posture in the face of the empire of his day must be ours today. We, like Jesus, cannot remain silent in the face of the multivalent attacks on basic human dignity and society we are experiencing. Many of us will participate today in protests around the state and the nation. We must continue to show up, speak up, and witness to a better way than what the American empire offers in this moment.
But we must also, like so many disciples before us, refuse to meet violence with violence, dehumanizing rhetoric with dehumanizing rhetoric. In the months and years to come, we must stand in the face of every threat, every act of violence, every cruel or threatening word, with Jesus’ immovable love, clinging to love’s power, which raised Jesus from the death empire subjected him to, until God’s full reign of peace is fully and gloriously done, on earth as it is in heaven.
+CWL
The Right Reverend Craig Loya
Bishop of Minnesota
Church in Minnesota
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🌈 PRIDE SUNDAY - June 29, 2025
At St. David's 8:00am & 9:30am Services
We invite you to wear colors of the rainbow to worship on Sunday June 29th!
Twin Cities Pride Parade - Walk with ECMN!
Join the Episcopal Church Minnesota & St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral to walk together in the Twin Cities Pride Parade! Let’s show up in love, solidarity, and celebration of our LGBTQ+ community.
Date: Sunday, June 29
Event Info: tcpride.org/parade
To Join: Email Huldah Niles at huldah.violin@gmail.com to sign up.
"Radically Inclusive" ECMN Pride Shirt - The pictured ECMN Pride t-shirt is available for purchase ($20) - if you are interested, please let Huldah know of your size.
Huldah will follow up with those who RSVP with carpool and meetup details as the event approaches.
We hope you’ll walk with us in joy and pride!
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Hopkins Raspberry Festival - We need YOU!
Marketplace Booth - Sign-up Now!
It is almost that time of year for the highly anticipated Hopkins Raspberry Festival. Much fun was had last year during our inaugural participation in the Marketplace Fair and Grand Day Parade. We are at it again this year and hope you will come along for the ride!
The plan for this year is to participate in the Marketplace Fair with our St David’s Booth . It will all happen on Saturday, July 19th from 9 am until 4 pm. We will have an opportunity to faithfully innovate, living into our mission by participating in some radical hospitality with our neighbors. Once again, we will be offering up a place for rest, refreshment, and renewal for all fair goers traveling along Hopkins Mainstreet.
What will we have in our booth?
- Chairs to rest, and spritzer fans to cool off.
- Free Raspberry infused water and plain water for refreshment.
- A Gratitude activity for all ages to participate
- A furry friend station with water and yummy dog treats
- St David’s Information and conversation starters available for all booth workers
- Affirmation/Pride stickers available to all fairgoers
- Street chalk for all budding artists of any age!
- Parishioners, hopefully you, who will be a very important part of the booth…listening, getting to know our neighbors, being present, faithfully innovating!
We hope many will participate in this fun summer activity by working a “fly-by” 2-hour shift, including set up and take down opportunities. Sign up now in the Narthex on the clipboard provided next to the big Raspberry Festival poster.
Come along and live into St. David’s vision and mission. Questions, please contact me, Diane Curley, in person in the Narthex after church, or via email at dsbkncurley@gmail.com
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2025 Raffle for St. David’s Episcopal Church
It’s time for our summertime raffle benefiting St. David’s Church; our programming, ministries and projects! We need your support and here’s your chance to win one of 13 cash prizes! Tickets cost $100.00 each. and can be purchased by mail or stop by our sales table and speak to a friendly ticket agent any Sunday this summer!
Thirteen Cash Prizes
- 1 - $1,000.00 Prize
- 2 - $ 250.00 Prize
- 10 - $100.00 Prizes
Drawing will be held on September 7th, 2025
You do not have to be present to win!
A limited number of tickets will be sold.
Tickets purchased are not tax deductible
For more information and ticket sales contact any of us on the leadership team:
David Pearson at: 952-412-7678
Randy Lindquist at randyanddale@me.com
Karin Lindquist at Lindquist.karin@hotmail.com
Julia Moser-Hardy at office@stdavidsparish.org
We thank you for your participation and support of St. David’s.
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Wonder Women Social Hour
St David's Wonder Women gatherings are fun and a "wonder-ful" way to get to know people better on an informal basis. Please join us for snacks, beverages, and conversations. Our next gathering is:
Thursday, July 10th: hosted by Susan Taylor
7430 Autumn Chace Dr.
Bloomington, MN
Appetizers and beverages are welcome but not required - your presence takes precedent.
If you are willing to host or willing to double up with someone and co-host - let Nan Drake know at drake.nan@gmail.com or 612. 590.9092. Dates still open are August, September, and even October. Thursdays seem to be good days - keep in mind other church events happening so we don't overwhelm our involvement and commitments.
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Children are invited to remain in worship during the summer or visit our staffed nursery during the 9:30 service. Godly Play and The Peace Table will resume on Kickoff Sunday September 7th, 2025.
Youth Group will also resume in the fall. Thanks everyone for another great year!
You can still sign up for summer programming!
Sign up for Vacation Bible School
Volunteer at VBS
Register for Family Camp
| | Grow (literally) in faith at Good Courage Farm this year! | | |
Join with other Creation-loving folks for four seasons of on-farm learning and practice through the Farm Stewards ministry at Good Courage Farm in Hutchinson. This immersive, agrarian faith formation experience invites you (and church friends new and old!) to commit one Saturday a month (March through October) to a prayerful, joyful, reciprocal relationship with the farm's fruit trees, grapevines, or animals. Reconnect your spiritual life with the land and its gifts. Share the real fruits of your labor with those who hunger. Deepen your literacy in reading both Creation and Scripture for revelations of God's generous love. Click here to learn more about growing with Good Courage Farm in 2025 - spiritually and literally.
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ICA
Our mission: To create a healthy and stable community for all
Our vision: A community where everyone has the resources to thrive
Our belief: ICA’s presence in our communities makes our neighborhoods more stable and secure
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Loaves and Fishes
Please join us as we prepare and serve delicious meals for those in need
June 23rd
July 8th
July 28th
Please contact Sue or Basil Owen to sign up or sign up in the Undercroft. Sue’s cell is 612-716-1945. Basil’s cell is 612-716-0683 or email at bowen3@fastmail.com.
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Send it to office@stdavidsparish.org before 9:00 am on Wednesday to be featured.
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