 ZOOM GATHERING OPPORTUNITIES // Throughout the season of Lent we’re offering numerous opportunities for you and your families to gather together online: WEDNESDAY EVENING LENT HOLDEN EVENING PRAYER & DISCUSSIONS // You're invited to join us via Zoom each Wednesday evening at 7pm during Lent when we will share in pre-recorded Holden Evening Prayer (created by Paul & Amy Koopman) and discuss various traditional Black spirituals (provided by Christine Belfry Johnson & Traiveon Dunlap). You may also view the videos on our website each week. (Zoom Meeting ID: 874 4538 4114 | Passcode: 340861 or dial-in by phone to 301-715-8592) FAMILY SUNDAY MORNING FELLOWSHIP // Each Sunday morning at 10:30am we gather for Zoom Fellowship. This Sunday, will be our first monthly "Redeemer Family Fellowship" gatherings for children and families. These virtual gatherings will be an opportunity for us to connect and grow in our faith together! Activities are designed for children ages 12 and younger, but all ages are invited to join the fun! (Family fellowship will be held in place of “regular” fellowship these weeks). COMMUNITY ORGANIZER TRAINING ROUNDTABLE // This Sunday morning, Dr. Robin Bell (Redeemer Council minister for Racial Justice) and others among the recently-trained Redeemer community organizers will host a special Zoom conversation at 10:30am (during Family fellowship time). They will share their experiences of the weeklong Community Organizing for Faith Leaders training and discuss what you might experience should you join the June 2021 training! (Meeting ID: 844 0857 4545 | Passcode: 730137 or dial-in by phone to 312-626-6799) LENT ON THE NORTHSIDE // Our Northside Parish sibling congregation, Christ the River of Life, will be hosting at 12 noon a short hybrid Holden Evening Prayer worship each Wednesday in Lent. Those who come in person with masks and distancing may enjoy a soup supper, while others may join via zoom. NEXT WEEK AT WORSHIP // We will host Virtual Holy Communion, Sunday, March 7th and Happy Birthday song for the March-born! (Pre-recorded worship will be available online by Saturday at 10am) PRAISE & PRAYERS FOR REDEEMER NEWBORNS // We offer profound congratulations and celebrate together with Rachel Birkedal and Derwin Halim on the birth of their daughter Eka Matana (2/10/21); and Linnae Nelson-Seys and Jamie Seys (and Abraham) on the birth of their daughter Leora (2/14/21). We hold in prayer those awaiting the arrival of babies: Alyssa Schwitzer and Elizabeth Hanson, and Steven Hobert and Sarah Lindsey. We can’t wait to meet these little ones and shower their families when it’s safe to do so! WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES // We need readers for Lent worship!! Please register online or email Amy to sign up to record yourself and/or your family speaking the assigned lectionary readings for our prerecorded worships during the months of January and February. Know that you can speak aloud the readings linked on the sign-up or from a children’s or other translation in your home. COVID-19 PREVENTION & VACCINES // The best protection from the various mutations of the COVID-19 virus—whether you are vaccinated or not—is to: -- stay home whenever possible; -- stay 6 feet away from others in all spaces; -- wear a mask (or two) so that there is adequate filtration and a snug fit over the bridge of your nose, cheeks, and chin; and -- wash your hands often and well. See the MN Department of Health COVID-19 site for more in-depth and current information about symptoms, testing, and vaccines. At this time, in MN, vaccines are being given to long-term care residents and staff, healthcare workers, K-12 teachers, child care workers, and people over 65. Currently, vaccine demand exceeds the supply. MN Department of Health offers a vaccine locator site. When you receive a vaccine appointment, be sure to dress appropriately so that your upper arm is easily accessible (for example, wear a short-sleeve t-shirt under your sweater/jacket). HEALTH COMMONS at the LIVING ROOM currently offers Zumba, Book Club Discussions, and Health Q&A's online and via Zoom. Follow them on Facebook to get current schedules, events, and other resources: Health Commons at the Living Room.  Second Sunday in Lent | Readings & Gospel: Genesis 17:1-7, Psalm 22:23-31, Romans 4:13-25 & Mark 8:31-38 Relying on the promises of God, we pray boldly for the church, the world, and all in need . . .
Your gift of grace is for all people. Give confident faith to all the baptized, that they may follow you wholeheartedly. Give new believers joy in your promises; give hope and courage to those who suffer for their faith. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. You rule over the nations. Raise up advocates for peace and justice within and between nations. Give life where hope seems dead by teaching us to wonder at your works and tend the well-being of creation; call into existence new realities we cannot even imagine for residents of the Congo, Myanmar, and Texas as well as places unnamed. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. In Jesus you joined humanity in suffering and death. Reveal to all the depth of your love shown on the cross. Bring vindication for victims of injustice, exploitation, and oppression. Accompany all who suffer in body, mind, and spirit. Restore all who are sick or grieving especially Dennis, Itasca, Ione, Kogo Nora, Mary, and Sarah, our local and global siblings, the vaccinated and unvaccinated, all living with surging and variant COVID-19 in Slovakia, Britain with accompanying lockdowns alongside of quarantines, for all emergency responders, transporters, security guards, as well as disaster volunteers, the unsheltered campers at 2nd Ave North and Van White Memorial Blvd, brothers James and Bobbie, Cindy, Linda, Jovita, Maggie, Samantha, William . . .. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. You made Abraham and Sarah the ancestors of a multitude of nations. Bless grandparents, parents Rachel and Derwin, Linnae and Jamie, and foster parents, and the children who look to them for care and guidance. Console those who deal with infertility, parents who have entrusted their children to adoption, and children longing to be adopted. We thank you for the Redeemer Education-Youth ministry equipping a monthly virtual ministry to families. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. We await the day of Christ’s coming in glory. Lead us by the example of all the saints whom you have called to take up their cross and follow you Fessehatsion Kiflu Berhane, and Agui Elicki, Josh . . . that together we may find our lives in you. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. We entrust ourselves and all our prayers to you, O faithful God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.  ASH WEDNESDAY DRIVE-UP IMPOSITION OF ASHES & COMMUNION // Weather permitting, Redeemer invites you to come to the Redeemer Logan parking lot (behind Milda’s Cafe) on Ash Wednesday, February 17th at 12 noon only for Drive-Up Ashes Imposition and Distribution of Prepackaged Sacrament of Holy Communion. Pastor Kelly will place ashes on a spoon for you to make the cross on your forehead and those of your family, speak the blessing for ash imposition and the promise for Holy Communion (distributed with gloved hand), and offer a prayer. VIRTUAL COMMUNION NEXT SUNDAY // We welcome you to Redeemer’s Virtual Sacrament of Holy Communion next Sunday, February 21st. Whether you partake by sharing bread and wine or grape juice at home, or simply joining our prayers, know that all are included in the loving and forgiving communion of the Spirit of God in Christ Jesus for our life together. We will continue to offer the sacrament each first and third Sunday of the month. WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES // We need readers for Lent worship!! Please register online or email Amy to sign up to record yourself and/or your family speaking the assigned lectionary readings for our prerecorded worships during the months of January and February. Know that you can speak aloud the readings linked on the sign-up or from a children’s or other translation in your home. WEDNESDAY EVENING LENTEN ZOOM GATHERING // We invite you to join us each Wednesday evening during Lent (beginning February 24th) at 6:30pm for zoom gatherings. We will share in pre-recorded Holden Evening Prayer and discuss different topics each week in smaller groups. Bring a bowl of your favorite soup or a cup of your favorite tea and join us here. (Meeting ID: 874 4538 4114 | Passcode: 340861 or dial-in by phone to 301-715-8592) THANK YOU! // We thank Dr. Robin Bell for providing emergency pastoral care during Pastor Kelly’s vacation, Pastor Babette, Campus Pastor at Augsburg University, for presiding and preaching on Sunday Feb. 7th, and Chaplain Bill Dexheimer Pharris for our birthday song! OPPORTUNITY to TAKE ACTION to PROTECT THE HEALTH OF NORTH MINNEAPOLIS and the PLANET // The MN Pollution Control Agency is proposing an important rule change that will further reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new cars beginning with 2025 models, and it will increase the availability of zero emissions cars in MN. Currently only 19 of the 43 zero emissions vehicle models are available in MN. This legislation will require manufacturers to add increasingly more zero emissions vehicles to the MN market. Currently, MN is falling far below our greenhouse gas reduction goals and the people most adversely affected by gas emissions are here in North Minneapolis. This is an important rule for our community and our planet; the Service and Advocacy Committee is partnering with MN Interfaith Power and Light to ask you to support the rule change and sign the following petition. Please log in here to sign MN Interfaith Power and Light’s petition. It is important to note that Redeemer’s own, Sam Benson, works for MN Interfaith Power and Light and has been spearheading this effort! ORDER YOUR “REDEEMER BELIEVES BLACK LIVES MATTER” T-SHIRTS // Redeemer’s Service & Advocacy ministry (led by Holly De Souza) is offering new “Redeemer Believes Black Lives Matter” shirts for a suggested donation of $10 (or more which will fund the ongoing work of the S&A committee). These high quality, no shrink t-shirts come in sizes: Youth XS, S, M, & L and Adult S, M, L, XL, and XXL. Order your t-shirts by filling out the online order form. ZOOM FELLOWSHIP: SUNDAY at 10:30AM // Please join us at 10:30am this Sunday for Zoom Fellowship. Next Sunday, February 21st, will be hosted by Dr. Bell (Redeemer Council minister for Racial Justice), Amy Koopman, and others among the recently-trained Redeemer community organizers.They will share their experiences of the weeklong Community Organizing for Faith Leaders training and discuss what you might experience should you join the June 2021 training! (Meeting ID: 828 2807 5412 | Passcode: 371196 or dial-in by phone to 312-626-6799) PRAYERS FOR REDEEMER BABIES // Please hold in your prayers Redeemer households expecting new births in the coming weeks and months: Alyssa Schwitzer (and Elizabeth Hanson), Linnae Nelson-Seys (with Jamie and Abraham Seys), Rachel Birkedahl (and Derwim Halim), and our accompanist Steven Hobert’s partner Sarah Lindsey. We can’t wait to meet these little ones and shower their families when it’s safe to do so! COVID-19 PREVENTION & VACCINES // The best protection from the various mutations of the COVID-19 virus—whether you are vaccinated or not—is to: -- stay home whenever possible; -- stay 6 feet away from others in all spaces; -- wear a mask (or two) so that there is adequate filtration and a snug fit over the bridge of your nose, cheeks, and chin; and -- wash your hands often and well. See the MN Department of Health COVID-19 site for more in-depth and current information about symptoms, testing, and vaccines. At this time, in MN, vaccines are being given to long-term care residents and staff, healthcare workers, K-12 teachers, child care workers, and people over 65. Currently, vaccine demand exceeds the supply. MN Department of Health offers a vaccine locator site. When you receive a vaccine appointment, be sure to dress appropriately so that your upper arm is easily accessible (for example, wear a short-sleeve t-shirt under your sweater/jacket).  Transfiguration of our Lord | Readings & Gospel: 2 Kings 2:1-12 | Psalm 50:1-6 | 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 | Mark 9:2-9 Guided by Christ made known to the nations, let us offer our prayers for the church, the world, and all people in need . . .
For the gospel proclaimed in word and deed, for communities of faith far and near, and for all who show the face of Christ throughout the world, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. For creation: sun, moon and stars; life forming in the dark earth and ocean deep; mountains, clouds and storms, and creatures seen and unseen, and for the Holy Spirit’s guidance in our stewardship of God’s creation, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. For those responsible for safety and protection: attorneys and advocates, civil servants and leaders of governments, that they witness to mercy and justice in Buffalo, MN, Ecuador and throughout the world, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. For all who suffer this day, Dennis, Itasca, Ione, Kogo Nora, Mary, and Sarah, our local and global siblings, the vaccinated and unvaccinated, all living with surging and variant COVID-19 in Argentina, France with accompanying lockdowns alongside of quarantines, for all emergency responders, security guards, as well as disaster volunteers, the unsheltered campers at 2nd Ave North and Van White Memorial Blvd, brothers James and Bobbie, Cindy, Linda, Jovita, Maggie, Samantha, William . . . that Christ our healer transform sickness into health, loneliness into companionship, bereavement into consolation, and suffering into peace, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. For companions on life’s journey in this worshiping community, for loved ones who cannot be with us this day, and for guidance during struggles we face as we anticipate our next pastor, as Minneapolis children and youth return to school that God’s glory is revealed around and among us, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. In thanksgiving for the faithful departed who now rest from their earthly pilgrimage especially missionaries Cyril and Methodius with Chris, Fessehatsion Kiflu Berhane, and Agui Elicki that their lives of service and prayer inspire us in our living, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. Merciful God, hear the prayers of your people, spoken or silent, for the sake of the one who dwells among us, your Son, Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.  VIRTUAL COMMUNION THIS SUNDAY // We welcome you to Redeemer’s first Virtual Sacrament of Holy Communion next Sunday, February 7th. Whether you partake by sharing bread and wine or grape juice at home, or simply join our prayers, know that all are included in the loving and forgiving communion of the Spirit of God in Christ Jesus for our life together. WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES // We need readers for February worship!! Please register online or email Amy to sign up to record yourself and/or your family speaking the assigned lectionary readings for our prerecorded worships during the months of January and February. Know that you can speak aloud the readings linked on the sign-up or from a children’s or other translation in your home. ASH WEDNESDAY DRIVE-UP IMPOSITION OF ASHES & COMMUNION // Weather permitting, Redeemer invites you to come to the Redeemer Logan parking lot On Ash Wednesday, February 17th at 12 noon or from 5pm-7pm for Drive-Up Ashes Imposition and Distribution of Prepackaged Sacrament of Holy Communion. Pastor Kelly will place ashes on a spoon for you to make the cross on your forehead, and will speak the blessing for ash imposition and the promise for Holy Communion (distributed with gloved hand) and offer a prayer. ZOOM FELLOWSHIP: SUNDAY at 10:30AM // Please join us at 10:30am this Sunday, 2/7, for Zoom Fellowship hosted by Dr. Bell, Redeemer Council minister for Racial Justice and the recently-trained Redeemer community organizers.They will share their experiences of the weeklong Community Organizing for Faith Leaders training and discuss what you might experience should you join the June 2021 training! We join in blessing for Dr. Bell who has been endorsed by a Minneapolis Area Synod theological review panel for ordained ministry. (Meeting ID: 828 2807 5412 | Passcode: 371196 | or dial-in to +1 312 626 6799) ORDER YOUR “REDEEMER BELIEVES BLACK LIVES MATTER” T-SHIRTS // Redeemer’s Service & Advocacy ministry (led by Holly De Souza) is offering new “Redeemer Believes Black Lives Matter” shirts for a suggested donation of $10 (or more which will fund the ongoing work of the S&A committee). These high quality, no shrink t-shirts come in sizes: Youth small and medium & Adult S, M, L, XL, and XXL. Order your t-shirts by filling out the online order form. PRAYERS FOR REDEEMER BABIES // Please hold in your prayers Redeemer households expecting new births in the coming weeks and months: Alyssa Schwitzer (and Elizabeth Hanson), Linnae Nelson-Seys (with Jamie and Abraham Seys), Rachel Birkedahl (and Derwim Halim), and our accompanist Steven Hobert’s partner Sarah Lindsey. We can’t wait to meet these little ones and shower their families when it’s safe to do so! COVID-19 VACCINES // M Health Fairview will begin scheduling COVID-19 vaccination appointments for people 75 years of age or older in addition to front-line health care workers who cannot perform their job remotely. The M Health Fairview COVID-19 vaccination effort is a phased approach, per guidance from the Minnesota Department of Health. Those eligible willl be asked to show identification including a driver’s license or other government issued ID or proof of employment at the time of your vaccination, whichever is applicable. COVID-19 vaccines require two doses. Please choose a first appointment that allows you to return exactly 21 days later at the same location. Your second vaccine appointment will be scheduled when you receive your first dose HEALTH COMMONS at the LIVING ROOM currently offers Zumba, Book Club Discussions, and Health Q&A's online and via Zoom. Follow them on Facebook to get current schedules, events, and other resources: Health Commons at the Living Room.  Fifth Sunday after Epiphany | Readings & Gospel Isaiah 40:21-31, Psalm 147:1-11, 20c, 1 Corinthians 9:16-23, Mark 1:29-39 Gracious God, by day and night we pour out our prayer to you. We are crying out for justice, yearning for what is right, longing for your peace. Come quickly to help us, O God; save those who call upon your name.
We hear of hateful violence and senseless killings . . . We feel the suffering, sorrow, and shame of the oppressed . . . We fear that justice will again be delayed or denied . . . We recognize patterns of privilege and systems of discrimination . . . We see your creation destroyed by carelessness and greed . . . We weep for the victims of COVID-19, police brutality, anti-LGBTQIA bigotry, and more. . . We grieve in the aftermath of the insurrection at the Capitol, and with those who’ve lost family, friends, and loved ones to ignorance, conspiracy, and violence birthed from hate and fear. . . We pray for an end to systemic racism, white supremacy, institutionalized greed and legislated oppression. . . We long for a day when Your justice and mercy will topple empires through changed hearts and transformed cultures . . . We remember the deaths of Fessehatsion Kiflu Berhane, Chris, and those who’ve passed on from this life . . . Gracious God, keep us working and praying for the day when your justice will roll down like waters, and your righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Replenish our strength and stir up our hope as we look for signs of your coming reign. And fill us with the peace that passes understanding—the deep peace of Jesus Christ our Savior, in whose holy name we pray. Amen. |
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Limited In-Offices Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays from 10:30am-2:30pm