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Events at St. Andrew
Nourishing Conversations
Popular last year, Nourishing Conversations returned on Monday, January 6.
On Mondays from 5:00 pm—7:00 pm, we gather to cooperatively prepare a healthy meal, join together to eat and talk, and then clean up together. This is an opportunity to be introduced to plant-based, whole food cooking, but even more, a chance to be together and get to know each other better. All are welcome! Please sign up in the Narthex each week so adequate preparations can be made. Contact Tira Nesset for more information.
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New Member Sunday
January 19, 2025
Our next New Member Sunday is scheduled for January 19! If you are considering the possibility of joining St. Andrew, please contact Pr. Allison. She would love to get to know you, give you an overview of the St. Andrew community, and answer any questions you have. If you have already been oriented to the church and are ready to join, please notify Pr. Allison so she can add you to the list!
Christian Extremism:
The Heresy & Its Consequences
Sundays, January 5-26, February 9, 2025
In describing his adult education class that began on Sunday, January 5, Jim Aageson poses this question: “What happens when extremist religion (right-wing Christianity in this case) and extremist politics (extremist right-wing American politics in this case) join hands?” With a new U.S. administration preparing to take office in a few weeks, people will be watching.
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New Event: The Last Sunday
The Last Sunday is an exciting new event beginning at St. Andrew on Sunday, January 26, at 6:00 pm in Fellowship Hall.
This is an opportunity for people in upcoming generations in the target age range of 16 to 50 years old to come together in an honest community to reclaim the hopeful, restorative, and justice-centered message of Christianity from the corrupt forces that are trying to co-opt it for themselves.
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Worship
We worship in our beautiful Sanctuary, Chapel, and Sanctuary of the Firs. Worship is vital to our community; we worship together on Sunday mornings at 9:30, in person, on YouTube Livestream, and on Zoom. Click on the “Get Connected” button to receive the links for online worship.
Adult Education
“If adult education does not become a priority for a congregation, at some point that congregation will cease to exist because its members will simply not know or understand the purpose of the congregation and their role in fulfilling that purpose.” —Neal Boese, Blueprint for Change, page 83.
Children & Youth
Children are not the “future” of the church; they ARE the church. Our Director of Next Generational Ministry, Kyler Vogt, is continuing to connect children, youth, and adult mentors during this time when connection is more important than ever.
Sunday Benedictions
Today we’re awash in information and nonstop news reporting from every corner of the world. It comes at us like a raging river in springtime threatening to drown us in its urgency and drama. I’m grateful for much of it. We need to see the faces of refugee families fleeing for their lives. We need to know and feel what it means to be caught in a natural disaster or a bloody coup or another senseless shooting. But it takes a toll. Just as too much junk food robs our bodies of vital nourishment, the effect of receiving and absorbing the 24-7 barrage of news reporting is an assault on our minds and souls as toxic as malnourished bodies.
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Recent Sunday Sermon
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Recent Sunday Worship
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