First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Grief Support Group
2023-07-01 10:00 - 11:30, 2023-07-08 10:00 - 11:30, 2023-07-15 10:00 - 11:30, 2023-07-22 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Chicago) | Basilica of St. Mary, 1600 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis
Grieving?
Show up any Saturday at 10 am to 11:30 am to hear a speaker on various topics of grief and loss, and then break into small discussion groups to talk to others experiencing a similar loss.
New attendees are always welcome! We ask that you arrive by 9:45.
Use our Contact Form or call 612-317-3454 for more information.

The Group currently meets at THE BASILICA OF ST. MARY, at 1600 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, 55403

SpringHouse Youth Room Open Hours
2023-07-02 09:00 - 12:30, 2023-07-09 09:00 - 12:30, 2023-07-16 09:00 - 12:30, 2023-07-23 09:00 - 12:30 | SHMC Youth Room

Sunday Worship & Caila Rinker Ordination (Online and In-Person)
2023-07-02 10:30 - 11:45 | FCC North Sanctuary & LiveStream Channel
Click on the link below to attend online through our YouTube Channel

Coffee Hour With The Pastors
2023-07-05 09:00 - 10:00, 2023-07-08 09:00 - 10:00, 2023-07-12 09:00 - 10:00, 2023-07-15 09:00 - 10:00, 2023-07-19 09:00 - 10:00, 2023-07-22 09:00 - 10:00 | FCC Zoom Channel
To join through your phone:
(312) 626-6799,
Meeting ID:
867 4016 4331

Elders
2023-07-05 19:00 - 20:00 | FCC Zoom Channel

Happy Hour With The Pastors
2023-07-06 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-07-11 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-07-13 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-07-20 17:00 - 18:00 | FCC Zoom Channel
To join us by phone:
(312) 626-6799,
Meeting ID:
852 5882 0639

Sunday Worship (Online and In-Person)
2023-07-09 10:30 - 11:45, 2023-07-16 10:30 - 11:45, 2023-07-23 10:30 - 11:45 | FCC North Sanctuary & LiveStream Channel

SHMC Building Committee
2023-07-10 17:00 - 18:30 | Online

SHMC Finance Committee
2023-07-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Online

Mission & Outreach
2023-07-13 12:00 - 13:00 | FCC Zoom Channel

SpringHouse Gardening
2023-07-15 10:00 - 12:00
The SpringHouse Landscape Committee is seeking your help in maintaining the beautiful gardens that surround our building. Each year the gardens need some tender loving care in the form of weeding and mulching. This can be a big job for one person, but three or four folks gathered on a Saturday can complete the task in less than 2 hours. Will you consider working in the gardens this year? If you don’t know the weeds from the flowers, we can teach you. Bring gardening gloves, a hand spade (if you have one) and a water bottle to keep yourself hydrated.
For more information or questions, reach out to Belinda Flanagan.

Seen and Heard: Bullets to Bells Project
2023-07-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Hennepin Ave UMC, 511 Groveland Ave, Minneapolis, MN, 55403, United States
An event for Gun Violence Healing on July 15, 2023, 4:00 pm Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church
Witness artist Stephanie Mercedes transform weapons into music. You are invited to join people gathering for a ceremony of healing from gun violence. Washington, DC based artist Stephanie Mercedes will melt bullet casings and transform them into bells. We will share an experience of communal lament in a tangible, audible, visible way.
Schedule:
4:00 pm Church bells ring
4:15 Music from interfaith choirs
4:30 Words of lament
4:45 The Melting
5:15 Ringing of bells to honor victims Improvisational Music
5:30 Ringing of bells of hope Bell choirs from churches
5:45 Words of Hope
6:00 Closing Gun Violence has long lasting impacts on victims and ripples throughout communities and beyond.
Art has a way to quiet our inner voices and help us find “moral sentiments – those instant, aesthetic-like reactions that cause us to feel disgust in the presence of cruelty and admiration in the presence of generosity” (Brooks, David. The Power of Art in a Political Age, New York Times, March 2, 2023). There is also healing power in ritual and lament. Sharing lament in group gatherings helps us slow down to acknowledge grief that does not dissipate.
About Mercedes: Mercedes is an uncategorized Queer Latinx artist who choreographs large scale performances and installations based in sound. Mercedes transforms weapons into musical installations and works of art. Mercedes website is www.stephaniemercedes.com. Read more about Mercedes at: YouTube, Instagram: mercedes_theartist, Artsy, and District Fray Magazine. Mercedes has exhibited and performed at the Bronx Museum, the Queens Museum, the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, and the National Gallery of Art. Her most recent project is Never in Our Image, a three-part, queer gun destruction opera, expected to premier in fall 2023.
Sponsors: First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church. This is a FCC Wholeness Fund funded project and FCC member Rev. Wendy Manuel is the Project Manager.

FCC and Friends Book Group
2023-07-17 19:00 - 21:00 | FCC Zoom Channel
2025
January     Middlemarch by George Eliot (Jan 20)
February    Passing by Nella Larsen (Feb 17)
March      The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (Mar 17)
April       The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd (Apr 21)
May        Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (May 19)

FCC Board - Online
2023-07-18 19:00 - 21:00 | FCC Zoom Channel
