Family and friends of Grace, I’m writing today to inform you of an upcoming change in our staff team at Grace. Laurel Jacobson, our Director of Intergenerational Ministries, was offered and has accepted a position at Christ Church Lutheran in south Minneapolis as Office Administrator and Volunteer Coordinator. Her final day at Grace will be…
Greetings family of Grace, I’m writing today with an important update in our pastoral transition process. We’ve been in a number of helpful and clarifying conversations over the past few weeks with Synod leadership, our transition consultant, our Grace Transition Team, and our pastors regarding what’s ahead for us. Here’s the latest. First, we’re absolutely…
For some of us, Mother’s Day is really hard. Maybe it’s because despite your longing and praying, you aren’t able to have kids. Or maybe you did, and you lost them much too soon, maybe before they were born. Maybe they grew up, but you have had the heart-wrenching experience of burying them. These stories, all too often, go unspoken. Over the…
The Transition Team is hard at work on the Ministry Site Profile (MSP). This is the document that pastoral candidates will review when considering a call to Grace as our new Senior Pastor. It conveys who we are as a congregation and what we are looking for in a senior pastor. In completing the MSP,…
