Outreach Service And Justice

The Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery is dedicated to ending child abuse and neglect and creating strong, healthy families by offering 24-hour voluntary emergency residential care, a crisis helpline, and family support services.

Our congregation directly steps into this work by preparing and serving meals two to four times a year at the Nursery facility.

Feeding families and supporting children in acute moments of vulnerability reflects our core call to offer radical hospitality, care for the youngest among us, and wrap suffering families in community support.

Re-Member works alongside the Oglala Lakota Nation on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, providing resources to improve daily quality of life while creating meaningful cross-cultural understanding for volunteers.

Our church lives out this partnership by sending a volunteer team for a week of immersion and service on the reservation each year, assisting with housing improvements, bed building, and community projects.

Through this hands-on service, we uphold our commitment to justice, reconciliation, honoring Indigenous sovereignty, and walking humbly as neighbors across cultural boundaries.

NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center strives to create a healthier community through culturally responsive, whole-person care and health equity in North Minneapolis.

Our congregation partners with NorthPoint by leading regular food drives and physically delivering gathered provisions directly to the NorthPoint Food Shelf.

By joining NorthPoint's efforts to eliminate food insecurity, we express our faith commitment to systemic health equity, basic human dignity, and loving our local Twin Cities neighbors through tangible action.

The American Red Cross alleviates human suffering during emergencies by mobilizing volunteers, donors, and life-saving blood supplies for hospitals across the nation.

Our congregation actively facilitates this mission by hosting and conducting Red Cross blood drives at our church facility several times each year.

Providing a safe space for life-giving donations allows us to be a practical sanctuary of healing, putting our call to preserve life and care for the physical body into direct practice within our local neighborhood.

Conversations with Friends works to end the isolation of individuals held in ICE detention centers, offering human connection and support to immigrants facing potential deportation.

Members of our church stand with these detained neighbors through letter writing, commissary contributions, assembling backpack care packages, and providing safe release support.

Engaging in this ministry allows our congregation to live out our profound moral obligation to welcome the stranger, advocate for immigrant justice, and bring compassion into systems of confinement.

Located in Golden Valley, PRISM provides vital social services, food relief, and emergency housing support that empower local individuals and families to build healthy, stable lives with dignity.

Our congregation supports PRISM by organizing targeted food collections and raising financial contributions throughout the year.

Supporting PRISM allows us to respond to local economic hardship with open hands, affirming our faith-driven belief that adequate food and housing are basic human rights.

St. Anne’s Place (a program of People Serving People) provides a safe 16-room shelter environment in North Minneapolis for women and non-binary led families experiencing homelessness to heal, connect, and transition into stable housing.

Our church community actively raises funds, sponsors Thanksgiving dinners, and gifts mothers on Mother’s Day to support the shelter’s residents.

This ministry reflects our congregational commitment to uplifting women and children, offering comforting meals, and surrounding families in transition with dignity and love.

Lucy Craft Laney Community School fosters a collaborative, culturally relevant learning environment that builds respect, trust, and academic success for students in North Minneapolis.

Our congregation partners with Lucy Laney by running back-to-school drives that provide essential clothing, hygiene items, and learning supplies directly to students.

Through this initiative, we honor the innate worth of every child, invest in educational equity, and express long-term solidarity with our local public school families.

Common Hope promotes hope and self-sufficiency in Guatemala by partnering with children, families, and communities through comprehensive programs in education, healthcare, housing, and family development.

Our church sustains an ongoing global partnership with Common Hope by sponsoring student education in Guatemala and encouraging members to build personal sponsor relationships.

This partnership reflects our commitment to global justice, breaking cycles of poverty, and acknowledging our interconnectedness with the wider human family.

Metro Meals on Wheels nourishes and enriches the lives of older adults and homebound individuals by delivering nutritious meals accompanied by a warm human check-in.

Volunteers from our church deliver lunchtime meals once a month to homebound neighbors across our local delivery routes.

Participating in Meals on Wheels puts our mission into motion by combating senior isolation, ensuring nutritional security, and honoring the dignity of our elder neighbors where they live.

Mobility Worldwide reflects the love of God by building and distributing three-wheeled, hand-propelled carts—free of charge—to individuals in developing countries who are unable to walk.

Our congregation supports Mobility Worldwide through fundraising and hands-on participation to help construct these rugged mobility devices.

This ministry exemplifies our goal to restore personal dignity, grant independence, and extend practical physical assistance to people living with disabilities worldwide.

ISAIAH Minnesota is a statewide, faith-rooted coalition building a multiracial movement for social, racial, and economic justice, working toward a true multiracial democracy, a caring economy, and a thriving planet.

Our congregation participates in ISAIAH’s public witness, leadership training, and community organizing campaigns to build public power.

Walking alongside ISAIAH grounds our church’s faith in action, allowing us to advocate for policy changes that dismantle systemic racism and promote justice for all Minnesotans.

Handmaids of MN uses peaceful, visually striking resistance to defend reproductive freedom, bodily autonomy, the rule of law, and equal protection under the law for all citizens.

Our congregation joins and supports their creative social justice advocacy across Minnesota.

Participating in this work aligns with our church's commitment to defending bodily autonomy, standing against authoritarianism, and advocating fearlessly for human rights and gender justice.

North-suburban Emergency Assistance Response (NEAR) provides emergency food assistance to individuals and families in need across Crystal, New Hope, and Robbinsdale.

Our congregation gathers non-perishable food items and financial support to ensure NEAR’s shelves remain stocked for neighborhood family visits.

Supporting NEAR reflects our congregation’s dedication to local hunger relief, ensuring our immediate geographical neighbors have reliable, local access to nutritious food.