Upcoming Forum Presentations11/19 Meet the Candidate for our Director of Youth and Family Formation. Members of the Call Committee will be present to introduce us to our candidate for the youth position, and we'll have time for questions, answers, and a chance to meet with them. Note that a meeting will...
Scones and Ministry Fair on Sunday, May 21
The 2022-23 Gloria Dei program year will finish with a flourish on Sunday, May 21. Shobi's Table, the St. Paul Synod's food truck mission, will be onsite providing tasty baked good treats after both services. Deacon Kari Olsen, mission director for Shobi's Table, will be our guest preacher that day....
Join us on Fall Kickoff Sunday, September 11
The 2022-23 Gloria Dei program year will get rolling with Fall Kickoff on Sunday, Sept. 11. It will be the final week of summer service times of 8:15 and 10 a.m. At 11 a.m. the festivities will move outside for a potluck meal, live music, petting zoo and a ministries...
Summer Guest Preaching Series
Bringing Good News Summer Guest Preaching Series This summer, Gloria Dei will welcome preachers from a variety of contexts to share a word from God with us. The grant that supports Pastor Bradley’s sabbatical journey also brings us a collection of pastors to share holy wisdom centered in the lectionary...
Staff Summer Sabbaticals
April is Volunteer Appreciation month
Gloria Dei Shared Ministries April is Volunteer Appreciation month, a time set aside to recognize the many contributions of volunteers to our society. It is a time when we, too, recognize the many ways Gloria Dei members, through their gifts of time and talent, carry out the mission and ministry...
Annual Meeting Recap and Rise, O Church Update
Read a recap of items discussed during our 2022 Annual Meeting held on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, including an update on our Rise, O Church construction project.
Shared Ministry at Gloria Dei
Stay in Community
But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into the one who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in...
Gloria Dei Community for Young Adults
20-Somethings/30-Somethings Group By Chloe Ahlf Six years ago, I sat down with Meredith Pain, Rachel Manz and Megan Henry for the first time. We had all, separately, approached the pastors about a ministry group within Gloria Dei that focused on young adults. Nothing existed. So, Pastor Lois brought the four...