LED screens are up. Your hymnal and bulletin are safe. God’s gonna meet us in new ways. Greetings from your Assistant Director of Worship Production. What a wild ride we’ve been on these last two years! Before the pandemic found us in Minnesota, Gloria Dei’s video ministry comprised of about...
Rise, O Church Project
Rise, O Church Project Status Report - April 2022 Over 150 people took a preview tour of the Sanctuary on April 23-24, and we look forward to worship with many more in our renewed Sanctuary beginning June 5, Pentecost Sunday. As we shared earlier, the pipe organ installation begins in...
Staff Summer Sabbaticals
In gratitude to God, Gloria Dei supports the Saint Paul Area Synod's Planting Hope Campaign. This campaign builds on the Synod's strengths and calls us to stretch in new ways as a Synod. This Synod-wide campaign will equip a vibrant church to be sent into the world. We ask our...
Room 99 Project Update – April 2022
Relieved. Excited. Ready. All of these describe how the Immigrant Justice Team reacted when we learned that the City of Saint Paul approved the building permit for Room 99 on April 1. Let the renovation begin! The permitting process, while lengthy, gave us time to look carefully at the space....
Equipping Families to Talk about Racial Justice
Gloria Dei's Racial Justice Committee periodically shares message about its work and opportunities for the Gloria Dei community to participate in work on racial justice. This message is from Mark Becker, a Racial Justice Committee member. One of the Racial Justice Committee’s favorite projects this year is distributing children’s books...
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...
Rise, O Church Status Report – February 2022
The new steel beams are in, which allowed columns in the Sanctuary to be removed. See the latest status report for photos and more.
COVID Health & Safety as of March 1, 2022
Effective March 1, 2022, our current practice at Gloria Dei is to wear masks for worship and in any gathering larger than 15 people. This extends to all Sunday morning activities (worship, Sunday School, Sunday Forum) and all Wednesday evening activities (Lenten worship, Confirmation). We recognize the declining case rates...
Room 99 Project Update – February 2022
Long-time Minnesotans have their own brand of faith in resurrection. We cling to the hope that, despite all the snow on the ground and the overnight lows, spring is around the corner. That hope is proving indispensable as we await the start of renovations to Room 99. This past month,...