Interview of Jeanne Wiger conducted by Amy Hinrichs Why did you join ISAIAH? “ I personally feel that we need to take action. We face the most divided country we've witnessed since the Civil War. Our country is falling apart. It so divided and that's fearful to me. We need...
Join a Sunday Morning Pop-up Gathering!
Are you looking for a way to connect spiritually and socially with other members of Gloria Dei? The monthly Pop-Up Gathering may be for you! You are invited to drop in for a Pop-Up Gathering on the second Sunday of each month, beginning in October. The name comes from Gather...
Guatemala Trip scheduled for July 26 – August 3, 2019
“We worshipped with El Mirador Church in Guatemala City on Sunday morning,” Katie LeClair, youth director at Gloria Dei, remembers. “The entire church fed us an amazing lunch and we stayed the whole afternoon with them to help build floats for the Palm Sunday processional. While others were pounding nails and...
How’s your Hearing? Hearing checks available
Hearing loss is an issue that affects people of all ages. In the US, the prevalence is 10-15% according to the National Institutes of Health. People may be born with hearing problems or acquire them over their lifetimes due to disease, aging, and injury. Impaired hearing can affect balance and...
Living with Chronic Health Conditions
In 2012, the Minnesota Department of Health estimated that 1 in 3 people of all ages have a diagnosed chronic health condition, meaning that they 1) have a health condition that can affect well-being, daily living and ability to function, and 2) the condition stays with them over a long...
Repentance and Resistance – Johnson Symposium on October 14
Program Description We are living in a time of coarse inhumanity in the public square. Messages of fear, scarcity, and exclusion dominate the news and threaten to divide us. Many of us are deeply disturbed by the direction of public discourse. Others of us are more intimately affected; our lives,...
Gloria Dei is a Monarch Waystation
Gloria Dei's rain gardens have all the necessary components to be declared an official Monarch Waystation.
Director of Faith Formation for Children and Families
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in St. Paul is seeking a full-time Director of Faith Formation for Children and Families. We are a congregation that, by God’s grace, are called to be a caring, healing and welcoming community who proclaim and celebrate the love of Jesus Christ, live as God’s servants...
Special Congregational Meeting scheduled for October 14
At a September 25th Special Meeting, the Gloria Dei Congregational Council voted to accept and endorse resolutions from both the Organ Committee and the Chancel Redesign Task Force. Subsequently, the council also called a Congregational Meeting for October 14th for the purpose of reviewing these resolutions, gathering thoughts from the...
ISAIAH: Systematic Advocacy
It suddenly made a lot of sense when I heard Martha Wegner, one of the original ISAIAH core team members at Gloria Dei, explain it this way. “We’re great at doing charity work here at Gloria Dei,” she told a group of us learning about the need for sick and...