Game night Friday, April 26 from 6:30-9 PM at Meraki (100 W 46th St in the “family room”)!!
Come, bring friends and food, drinks, and games to share!
On this fifth week in the Easter Season, Holly will preach and Spirit Garage musicians will make music. Classic.
Word.
Join Michelle Lewis each week starting Wednesday to explore the Bible texts that are coming up for Sunday worship. Lots of opportunity to ask questions of the text, notice what stands out and what we might be missing; pay attention to historical, literary and other angles possible within the text. Join on zoom once or come to them all. No experience necessary.
The ZOOM LINK is in the WEEKLY EMAIL or you can write to [email protected].
Word.
Join Michelle Lewis each week starting Wednesday to explore the Bible texts that are coming up for Sunday worship. Lots of opportunity to ask questions of the text, notice what stands out and what we might be missing; pay attention to historical, literary and other angles possible within the text. Join on zoom once or come to them all. No experience necessary.
The ZOOM LINK is in the WEEKLY EMAIL or you can write to [email protected].
Word.
Join Michelle Lewis each week starting Wednesday to explore the Bible texts that are coming up for Sunday worship. Lots of opportunity to ask questions of the text, notice what stands out and what we might be missing; pay attention to historical, literary and other angles possible within the text. Join on zoom once or come to them all. No experience necessary.
The ZOOM LINK is in the WEEKLY EMAIL or you can write to [email protected].
The next book we are reading is called “Being Mortal” written by surgeon Atul Gawande,
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.
Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients’ anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them. And families go along with all of it.
In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Now he examines its ultimate limitations and failures – in his own practices as well as others’ – as life draws to a close. And he discovers how we can do better. He follows a hospice nurse on her rounds, a geriatrician in his clinic, and reformers turning nursing homes upside down. He finds people who show us how to have the hard conversations and how to ensure we never sacrifice what people really care about.
Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal shows that the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life – all the way to the very end.
Celebrate the start of the summer season in Minnesota at Spirit Garage with Pancake Church. Find a seat with someone who could become a new friend around a Table in the Family Room. We’ll do some of the normal parts of worship and we will have conversations at the table as we feast on pancakes and other yummy bites.
All the fun begins at 10:30. See you there!
Serve/Share a Meal!
Spirit Garage volunteers will be providing and sharing an evening meal to the 21 individuals who are staying at Our Saviour’s Emergency Shelter. It’s super low-key. We need about 4 people to serve, and others are welcome to donate food. Sign up options can be found here. Shelli Bakken is the main contact for this event. If you need her info, you can write to [email protected].
INFORMATION SESSION ZOOM: February 29th, 7 PM
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86950782704
The Wild Goose Festival is a 4 day Spirit, Justice, Music and arts festival. It involves camping, big and small stages with speakers, conversations, interviews, live podcasts, interactive art installations, panels, musicians, beer hymn sings, and all kinds of other shenanigans… in North Carolina, with some of the coolest progressive speakers, artists, creators, musicians who identify with (or are adjacent to) Christianity around. Who wants to go with me? Some people will road trip and some will fly. We can discuss these things in the zoom. The 4 day event registration fee costs $269 (if you register before March 19th) BUT we got a group discount code. So when you check out, put this code in: SG24 and that will give you like 20% off.
You can register by putting down a deposit of $109 on the Wild Goose Website. If you need assistance for the rest, talk with me about your need, and we’ll work something out. There will be some costs for transportation, and food. We can probably work on some group meals together but there are also food trucks. Sounds awesome, right?
Here’s a video that will give you a little taste of what it’s about: https://youtu.be/hFTfNTRodxA?si=0ePUMmSI30ZqoYGV.
PS you can also rent tents down there. And there are some hotels about 20 minutes away. There are also glamping options.
This is the day when Spirit Garage leads worship at The Lake Harriet Bandshell. Our musicians will lead music, and we’ll hang with the neighbors who worship at the Bandshell with us. After, expect to stay for a grill-out or brunch outside at the lake.