Our Christ­mas Out­reach Offer­ing will go to sup­port the Imag­ine NO Malaria project. Please use the des­ig­nated envelopes or mark your checks clearly as “Christ­mas Out­reach Offer­ing.” As we antic­i­pate the birth of Christ, the holy light of the world, please give to our Christ­mas Out­reach Offer­ing and help us stop malaria from extin­guish­ing the pre­cious light in Africa.

A few weeks ago, we watched a num­ber of young peo­ple go through the con­fir­ma­tion ser­vice. These chil­dren are dear and beloved to our com­mu­nity. It is no dif­fer­ent in sub-Saharan Africa. Unfor­tu­nately, many beloved chil­dren and adults suc­cumb to… (keep read­ing…)

Join the UMCOR Sager Brown Mis­sion team form­ing NOW (through Octo­ber) for a Jan­u­ary 8–20, 2012 trip to Bald­win, LA. Reg­is­tra­tion ends Novem­ber 1. Together we can make a difference!

Hen­nepin Church is pleased to wel­come retired U.S. Sen­a­tor David Duren­berger who will speak at an 11:00 AM adult forum on Sun­day, Sep­tem­ber 18. The pri­mary sub­ject will be health care issues; other top­ics may emerge dur­ing the question-and-answer period. All are wel­come to attend this forum spon­sored by the Hen­nepin Church Peace Through Jus­tice Committee.

Sun August 21st, 2011 11:00 AM Hen­nepin Church is proud to sup­port Mr. Mozart M.K. Adevu, mis­sion­ary with the Gen­eral Board of Global Min­istries of the United Methodist Church. He is the Africa Regional Coor­di­na­tor for the Sus­tain­able Agri­cul­ture and Devel­op­ment… (keep read­ing…)

Project AgGrad cel­e­brates 25 years of address­ing the root causes of world hunger in devel­op­ing coun­tries. Join in cel­e­brat­ing this impor­tant global out­reach effort sup­ported by Hen­nepin Church.

Sun August 28th, 2011 11:00 AM Tsitsi Cather­ine Ndowora Nyamupingidza, third stu­dent of Project AgGrad, received her Ph.D. in Plant Pathol­ogy from the Uni­ver­sity of Min­nesota in 1998. While work­ing on her degree, Hen­nepin Church along with the United Methodist Women and… (keep read­ing…)

A res­o­lu­tion pre­pared by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, instruc­tor in peace stud­ies at the U. of St. Thomas, was pre­sented at an adult forum in April, 2011 and revised by the Peace Through Jus­tice Com­mit­tee and offered to mem­bers of HAUMC. Dur­ing… (keep read­ing…)

Today, 1 bil­lion peo­ple in the world (or 3 times the U.S. pop­u­la­tion) do not know where their next meal will come from.  An addi­tional 2 bil­lion peo­ple show hid­den hunger, that is, defi­cien­cies in var­i­ous micronu­tri­ents. Hen­nepin is help­ing… (keep read­ing…)