Community Outreach

In Our Neighborhood

Get connected to Our Neighborhood

We are connected to our neighborhood in and around Columbia Heights. Following the example of Jesus, we believe in meeting the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of our neighbors. We love to eat together. We provide over 500 meals each week and take an active role in caring for our earth through organic composting and community gardening. We also mentor young people and host community forums where we discuss ways to be involved in our community.

Sunday Community Lunch: September - May. (After Labor Day - Memorial Day)

After School: Fall Tuesdays and Thursdays: 4 - 6 PM (Ages 5 - 16) Learn more here.

Community Garden: Plots available in the summer by request through Nathan Roberts nathanr@flcch.org

Stories from Our Neighborhood Series: One Wednesday a month (see below)

Nathan Roberts

Director of Community Engagement

BIO

Upcoming Events this Fall

Our Stories from our Neighborhood series will kick off with Mikah Meyer, the son of a Lutheran Campus Pastor and is a gay rights advocate for making parks and the great outdoors more inclusive. His new documentary Canyon Chorus, that he'll be showing at the event, was named 1 of the Best 30 Outdoor Films of the Year
(https://www.mikahmeyer.com/documentary) He has been featured by The TODAY Show, Living Lutheran, NPR, the Star Tribune, and more as part of his world record journey to all of America's 400+ National Park Service sites and his Run Across Minnesota!
RSVP on Facebook here

Please join us for our October 4th FREE Buy Nothing Project giveaway event (like a FREE flea market, garage sale, swap meet) hosted by the Buy Nothing Columbia Heights, Hilltop, Southern Fridley group, HeightsNEXT and First Lutheran Church of Columbia Heights.

If you have items you want to give away for FREE, please bring them during set up from 9:00 am to 10:00 am and place them at your table (tables provided and assigned as people arrive). To reserve a table email Nathan Roberts nathan@flcch.org. Reserving a table is not required, but it does help us prepare!

RSVP on Facebook here

There has been a disturbing rise in white Christian nationalist groups in the northern suburbs of Minneapolis. Including a recent flyer sent to Columbia Heights residents that was enlisting people to join a white supremacist group. In response to these racist groups, Stories from our Neighborhood will be hosting a storytelling night around we can safeguard our community from white Christian nationalist groups like the KKK and the Proud Boys.

Rev. Angela Denker is an award-winning author, ELCA Lutheran pastor, and veteran journalist who has a column in the Minnesota Star Tribune. Her second book is Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood. Pastor Angela lives with her husband, Ben, and two sons in Minneapolis, where she is a sought-after speaker on Christian Nationalism and its theological and cultural roots. You can read more from Angela on her Substack: https://angeladenker.substack.com.

Please join us to learn what we can do as individuals, groups, and neighbors to keep our city safe and welcoming for everyone.
RSVP on Facebook here.

Living Connected to god and our neighbor

OUR MINISTRIES

Sunday Community Lunch

Home cooked meal with salad bar. Free will offerings accepted. Everyone is welcome.
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Every Meal

Every Meal leverages community and school partnerships to fight child hunger by providing a weekend’s supply of food to hungry children.

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After School Program

A safe place for children & youth in the neighborhood to connect with friends, create, play and grow into young leaders.
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Stories from our Neighborhood

Neighbors from various ethnic, cultural and lifestyle backgrounds tell their story and talk about how we can be better neighbors.
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