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Serving our Community

11/26/2022

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One way we serve our mission is to serve our neighbors.
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TRC members met at Berean Cogic Church (adjacent to the State Capitol) to prepare and serve that neighborhood.

Brooklyn's presence made it a REAL ITALIAN meal.  Think about joining us next time.
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Breaking Bread, Building Communities

11/20/2022

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Today was the inauguration of the first bread baked in our brick oven.

Ahead of that, we were treated with a sermon about the history and magnificence of bread braking by Pastor Bryce Johnson.  Following the service, Pr. Johnson taught us the basics of brick-oven bread baking. 

Pr. Johnson has spent a lifetime working with dough and baking bread; he researched that throughout in the 1800s and early 1900s, brick ovens throughout Europe were the centerpiece of village life. Once or twice a week, the community oven was fired, and villagers brought their homemade bread dough to the center of the village to bake. As they waited for the bread, they conversed with one another, played games, and debated the day's events.

The bread nourished the bodies but it was the oven that was vital to building a strong community.

Now retired, Pr. Johnson has been key to dozens of other ovens throughout the United States.  He was instrumental in the design of our oven.

read more here​
images during the oven build
BREAD
~ E.J. Mudd  
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Mix flour, water, salt, and yeast.
If the phones rings, don't answer.
Your fingers are a sticky mess.

​Let dough rise in a nice, warm place.
If the phone rings, don't answer.
You're creating.

Knead till satiny. Divide into loaves.
If the phone rings, don't answer.
You're sculpting.

Bake in hot oven till crisp and brown.
If the phone rings, don't answer.
You're in aromatherapy.

Take out and eat a piece at once.
If the phone rings, don't answer.
You're in heaven.

Panis Angelicus.
Photos by Steven Peer, copy derived from an article from Glenn Oliphant
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Pizza Fest: November 18: 6pm

11/18/2022

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Bring your appetite; 6pm on Friday evening, Nov 18 when we’ll be firing-up the oven for home made pizzas.
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Pizza-Game Night Oct 28

10/23/2022

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Costume-up or come as you are;
​hungry for Pizza and Good Fun.
October 28, 2022
​starts 6:00pm
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Pizza Prep:  Sep 16, 4PM

8/21/2022

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Ahead of the September Pizza Fest, we need volunteers to shape and par-bake the pizza dough (no experience necessary).
September 16, 4PM

Sign-up at the church or call the office.
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​What a fun way to create or expand your community, while rolling in dough.

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Channel Your Inner Artist:

6/24/2022

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If you can fog a mirror, you're an artistic. Come exercise it with us. If you are a practiced artist, come celebrate it with us -- give us a show & tell!

We've been meeting on the FIRST FRIDAY of each month to try out a new genre (that have included):
  • literature (including poetry, drama, story)
  • visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpture)
  • graphic arts (painting, drawing, design)
  • sculpture
  • decorative arts 
If interested, give Brooklyn a call to confirm the date and let you know the genre.

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Watch the JOHN MCANDREW Concert

6/22/2022

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Join White Bear Lake UMC Bread Event

6/14/2022

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White Bear Lake United Methodist Church fires up its oven this Friday (June 17) around 12:30 to bake bread for a fund raiser as part of White Bear Lake Manitou days celebration.  A great chance to assist while learning how to do this when our own oven is complete. RSVP to Brooklyn.
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June 5: Pablo Neruda Poem

6/4/2022

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Keeping Quiet
Pablo Neruda

Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still
for once on the face of the earth,
let's not speak in any language;
let's stop for a second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines;
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
Fishermen in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would not look at his hurt hands.
Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victories with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about...
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with
death.
Now I'll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.
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Blessing of the Bikes May 22

5/2/2022

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The annual blessing of the bikes will happen on May 22rd, following the church service (approximately 11am). There is a planned ride to follow.
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EPHESIANS 6:17, 
​“Take the helmet of salvation…”
 

Thoughts on helmets from Trinity United Methodist Church

​Helmets are vital in protecting the head from serious injuries.  
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I am a bike rider and never ride my bike without a helmet. I never snow ski without a helmet.  Many people have been killed with head trauma when they accidentally skied into a tree -- like famous singer Sonny Bono a few years ago. And I would never drive a motorcycle without a helmet. 

Imagine how much more they are needed in time of battle!  The Roman helmet, like helmets today, protected the head from the attacks of the enemy. The helmet of salvation protects us spiritually from a powerful attacks against our mind from the enemy. Without the helmet, we leave ourselves exposed on the spiritual battlefield.  more
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