Faith Activities

Read the Liturgy

Can you read in a clear, expressive voice? Have we got a job for you! Join our Liturgy team and read Bible passage aloud at our Sunday services. Contact Pastor Sarah to get into the rotation.

Provide a Community Meal

Northeast UMC serves two free community meals each month, on the second and third Saturdays. It's a time when everyone pitches in to provide a hearty, healthy meal and friendship. You can support this mission by providing an entree or a side dish, by running the dishwasher, or simply sharing a meal with our neighbors. Contact Sara Jane VanAllen to volunteer.

Help Our Garden Grow!

A community garden is an ambitious undertaking, especially when it involves the pastor's backyard, and the churchyard. If you can dig, plant or pull weeds, come and join us! The produce from our garden is used at our community meals and excess foods are given to local food shelves. We're even growing our own altar flowers!

Make School Bags for UMCOR

A bag should contain

1 pair blunt scissors (rounded tip)
3 pads (or loose leaf) 8 1/2" x 11" ruled paper
1 30-centimeter ruler
1 hand-held pencil sharpener
6 unsharpened pencils with erasers
1 eraser, 2 1/2"
1 box of 24 crayons (only 24)

Prepare a 14" x 16" (finished size) cloth bag with handles and an optional closure (Velcro, snap or button) and place items in the bag. You can download instructions for this project and others from UMCOR, the United Methodist Committee on Relief.

Deliver Meals on Wheels

Deliver hot food and a warm smile to people in Northeast who can't get out and about. Contact Kathy Smith or Suzanne Olson for the Dinner Bell schedule.

Donate to the Food Shelf

Northeast United Methodist collects food for the neighborhood food shelf on the first Sunday of every month. Bring your donations to church and place them in the box under the N.E.E.D. sign in the church lobby (narthex). Donated items are delivered to the Salvation Army on Central Avenue. Some suggested food items include canned fruit, peanut butter, canned tuna, cheese, baked beans, macaroni, vegetables, soups, diapers, toilet paper and paper towels. Contact Virginia Broich for more info.

Collect Campbell's Soup Labels

It's unbelievable what a UPC code can do. Members collect labels from Campbell's products (soup, Swanson's, Pepperidge Farms, Prego). When 2,500 points have been accumulated, they're sent to Red Bird Mission in Kentucky or McCurdy School in New Mexico. The schools use the points to purchase school supplies and provide transportation. The "collection box" is in a drawer in the credenza in the Narthex (lobby area).

Our vision: To be an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just community of faith in the United Methodist tradition in Northeast Minneapolis.

“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”

--John Wesley, founder of the United Methodist Church