Join the Faith Formation Co-Op team in the Conference Room and share your insights on the challenges today’s youth face and how we can support their future at Mount Olivet! Can’t make this date? Other sessions are coming soon!

Find out more about the Faith Formation Co-Op Team HERE.

Curious about practical ways to nurture your kids' faith? Whether you're parenting littles or teens, come and find community with other parents along with simple practices that connect to the life your family actually has. This is not a conversation about fitting more stuff into our busy lives, so much as it is a conversation about doing less with purpose.

Join Beth McGrew-King for a book discussion of Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn't Have to Heal From by Meredith Miller. Read or listen to the book ahead of time. Then pick up a community meal (or bring your dinner) and meet in the Conference Room from 6-7:30pm on Monday, November 18. RSVP below. Friends are welcome!

Want to join the discussion, but don’t have the time to read ahead? Come anyway! Beth will offer a quick recap at the start of the discussion, and you are welcome whether you read or listened to the whole book ahead of time or not.

Can't make this date, but want to participate in something like this in the future -- let us know in the sign up. Have questions? Contact Beth Mc-K at emcgrewking@moply.org.

Join the Faith Formation Co-Op team in the Fireside Room and share your insights on the challenges today’s youth face and how we can support their future at Mount Olivet! Can’t make this date? Other sessions are coming soon!

Find out more about the Faith Formation Co-Op Team HERE.

In the midst of division, we believe that within our various religious and spiritual communities lies wisdom, experiences, and practices that can contribute to healing and the work of justice. During the Minnesota Multifaith Network conference we not only will name the realities of our divisions but share and experience ways that healing and justice might be our shared commitment and work.

For three weeks (11/13, 11/20, 12/4), 5th-8th students choose an elective learning track. Students who love singing are invited to join Angela Gritton for youth choir rehearsals and to sing in the Advent Concert on Sunday, December 8 at both services.

5th-6th students who don’t enjoy singing are invited to explore curious Old Testament Bible stories, and 7th-8th students will continue with their learning about the 10 Commandments. Whichever track students choose, they must stick with it for the three weeks.

Have questions? Contact Rich Holleque or Beth Mc-K.

November 13, 2024 at 12:00 in the Conference Room at Mt Olivet

Make a pot of your favorite family Soup recipe and bring it for everyone to share.

Or you can bring bread or dessert

On Sunday, November 10 at 10am, join the pastors, staff and others new to Mount Olivet in the Conference Room for a light brunch and an opportunity to learn more about MO's vision and connect with others who are new to MO. Kids welcome! To RSVP and help us plan for food, sign up HERE.

Find out more about membership at Mount Olivet HERE.

Bring your broken household items to a free Fix-It Clinic and work together with friendly, skilled volunteers to diagnose, troubleshoot and fix your stuff (last items accepted at 3:30pm). We can help you with small appliances, clothing that is clean, electronics, mobile devices and more. Examples of what to bring: vacuum cleaners, lamps, fans, clothes, other kitchen and household small appliances, toys, electronics.

Fix-It Clinics teach valuable troubleshooting and basic repair skills, build community connections and reduce the number of repairable things that are thrown in the trash. For more information, visit hennepin.us/fixitclinic or contact program coordinator Nancy Lo at nancy.lo@hennepin.us or 612-348-9195. Please email nancy.lo@hennepin.us if you would like to volunteer! 

Clinics are held on the second weekend of every month in different cities around Hennepin County. https://www.hennepin.us/fixitclinic

Each year we remember loved ones who have passed away in the last 12 months. To commemorate them, a special worship service will be held at our Historic Chapel at 7pm on Sunday, November 5.

To include your loved one's name in the list to be read aloud during the service, please fill out the form HERE, or add their name to the list on the Welcome Counter.

Former Senior Pastor John Strommen has written a book and is excited to share it with the MO community! He will be here on October 27 from 3:30-5:30pm in the Fireside Room to sign books and meet and greet friends and neighbors. Books can be purchased at the event ($5 discount) or on John's website HERE.

Be sure to come and congratulate John on this wonderful accomplishment!

The 5th-6th Worship Leadership Retreat and 7th-8th -Welcoming Retreat will happen concurrently on Friday, October 25 giving 5th-8th graders time to eat together and play games together on their retreats. The 5th-6th students will have hands on learning and practice around leading in worship, and 7th-8th students will engage in hands-on community building around welcoming.

Come to connect and learn stories of community from the New Testament led by Dr. Ron Troxel. Ron is a retired Pastor and Professor of Religion and Semitic Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has found a place at Mount Olivet with his wife Jacki.

Over four weeks, Ron will dwell and teach from stories of the early church, as we all discover the joys and the challenges of forming Christian community.

The sessions will run Sundays from 10-10:45am on 10/13, 10/20, and 10/27 with a summary session on 11/3.

Join the OWLS in the conference room at church on Wednesday, October 9th, from 1 to 3, for our monthly gathering for social and snacks.  It has been suggested that for those interested, we could play five hundred or cribbage.  If you are interested, please bring a cribbage board and cards.  We look forward to seeing you then.

The Reconciling in Christ (RIC) process is a public way to see, name, celebrate, and advocate for people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions along with other ELCA churches in the country.

Come hear from Wally Palm, leader of MO’s RIC Team, for an update on how the team will engage our congregation in the coming months toward the creation of a new welcome statement that is specific about LGBTQIA+ inclusivity.

In the flurry of too much, Mount Olivet is creating space to listen and to speak as a church -- to hear another's story and to share our own. We trust that what is shared will shape the future for Mount Olivet, and most importantly, offer the rarest gift, the gift of being heard.

Come be a part of small group circles where you listen to Community Members.

• Sunday, September 22 at 10am

• Wednesday, September 25 at 7pm 

• Zoom options will available for those cannot participate at the above times. Dates for the Zoom sessions will be available soon!

In the flurry of too much, Mount Olivet is creating space to listen and to speak as a church -- to hear another's story and to share our own. We trust that what is shared will shape the future for Mount Olivet, and most importantly, offer the rarest gift, the gift of being heard.

Come be a part of small group circles where you listen to Community Members.

• Sunday, September 22 at 10am

• Wednesday, September 24 at 7pm 

• Zoom options will available for those cannot participate at the above times. Dates for the Zoom sessions will be available soon!

Grab a cup of coffee, water or tea and join Council in the Fireside for a financial update!

Calling ALL Singers! We mean it! Opera singers, shower singers, happy birthday singers, or Lutheran choir singers! 10th Grade to 110 years are invited to give CHOIR a try. We meet on Wednesday nights at 7:15pm in the Music Room, beginning September 11. Reach out to Angela for more info or with questions.

Wednesdays aren’t just for kids! Whether you're looking for time to connect with God in worship, building friendships with other parents, want to try out singing in a fun and supportive community, looking for a place for kids age 3 to grade 12 to explore their faith -- there's something for nearly everyone on Wednesday nights! Come check it out this fall beginning Wednesday, September 11 at 6:30pm.

Pancakes are coming!

Join us this Rally Sunday, September 8 from 9:30-10:45am in the Community Room (by Door 2) for a yummy pancake breakfast (gluten free option available, $5 suggested donation).

Want to help with this event?

Sign up to help prep, serve or clean up HERE, and join our fantastic and fun Loaves & Fishes Site Coordinator Sarah Smith in the kitchen.

All are welcome to help with a service project that rolls bandages for hospitals in Africa, Indonesia, India, and South America for Global Health Ministries.  

No previous experience required!

We meet on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 1pm in the Conference Room.

Come and try it out!

Donations of clean, white sheets (OR clean pillowcases of any color or pattern) are welcome .

Come and find out more about volunteering with children’s ministry at Mount Olive this year.

Mount Olivet's organist Blake Proehl will be leaving us this fall to start a doctoral program at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium. Blake has contributed consistently beautiful and interesting music to our worship every week, and he will be missed!

Blake writes, "Abigail and I have really felt at home here, and we so appreciate the warmth and welcome you have given us."

We will celebrate Blake on August 25, at his last worship service with us. In the meantime, be sure to thank him and wish him well when you see him.

Many hands make work light and fun!

Help us get classrooms ready to welcome kids and youth back for faith formation programming this fall, and maybe meet a new friend at church in the process.

We'll start at 10am on Thursday, August 22, and lunch will be provided.

Sign up HERE. Have questions? Contact Amanda who is organizing the clean up day.

Grab a cup of coffee outside the Fireside Room and join Deb McDonald and the Mount Olivet Council on Sunday, August 18 at 10am for a financial update.

Catch up with friends and watch La La Land projected on the huge brick wall behind church! We'll have lots of snacks and beverages. Bring blankets, lawn chairs, and bug spray! Grades 9-12 -- Friends are invited! -Show up at 8:30 pm -Movie will start when its dark (no later than 9pm) -Finish around 11:15pm. We’ll be keeping an eye on weather, and move into Fireside Room if needed!

Bring your bag lunch to the Shady Grove Picnic Area at French Park this Wednesday, August 14 at 12pm. We’ll eat lunch together, and then go for a walk in the woods afterward.