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Please check our calendar for upcoming dates. Email
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- Make Contact & Gain Trust
- Be Available & Accessible
- Serve Physical & Spiritual Needs
- Advocate For At-Risk Young People
- Host Positive & Safe Events
Outreach: To effectively serve
at-risk young people, Source combines "going out" with hosting
events, in order to make contact and gain trust. Staff need
to go to where people are and build relationships in order to
serve them and speak into their lives. Hosting events not only
communicates hope in a variety of ways, it also allows us to
be available and accessible when individuals are ready for more.
People move at their own pace. And it's important that when
they're ready, we're there as friends who can serve their physical
and emotional needs, and as voices of God's love and forgiveness
Outreach
Prayer
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requests
- Revelation
- Conviction
- Divine Appointments
- Safety & Provision
- Homeless Youth
- Fallout Events
- Fallout Neighborhood
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Why Outreach?
- To gain trust before we can speak into lives
- Because people will listen to those they relate to
- "leave the 99 and go search for the lost", Jesus said.
- Because the postmodern culture does not see Jesus as relevant
- Because the Bible references reaching out 100+ times
- Because there are 15,000 Homeless Youth in Minnesota every
year
- Because there needs to be a light in the darkness
- Because this generation is hungry for family.
Hospitality- set an extra place
at the table
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Community meals eaten weekly.
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Hospitality is one of the best ways to make
contact and gain trust. Sharing meals is one of the most
effective ways to bring people together. It not only fosters
conversation, but also bonding, just like in a family
setting. Sitting down to eat dinner together reflects
our bond as brothers and sisters in Christ - we are a
family. Because so many young people come from broken
families, sharing a meal is a powerful testimony to the
family of God that they might not have experienced before.
We share anywhere from three to five meals together a
week, including event nights at the Fallout and at our
community houses. It's an amazing witness to provide a
free family-style dinner to young people, including those
who are in traveling bands. Taking the time to actually
sit down and initiate a conversation with band members
has been powerful. So many musicians are used to being
treated poorly at venues. When we purposely serve them,
it makes an impact.
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Celtic Christians historically have made a habit
of setting an extra place at their tables, ready to welcome
whoever might visit. We try to follow that same principle in
every aspect of our lives as ministers, ready to welcome those
with practical needs, spiritual needs, or simply a friendly
listening ear. Here's a challenge for the American Church: If
you want to love your neighbor, start with an invitation to
dinner.
Drum & Easel to the Streets
The heart of Drum & Easel is taking drums
and art as an act of prayer and worship to the streets, shelters,
and public venues. We invite everyone to celebrate and express
God's kingdom creatively through music, percussion, dance, and
art.
Past Drum and Easels included:
Fallout Art Fest
Fallout Art Fest is annually held in July that
started in 2003.
2,000+ people
1,800 free meals
400 screen printed shirts
250 pounds of clay
100 volunteers 50 plus artists
40 musicians
30 gallons of paint
15 partnering congregations
12 films & a puppet show
5 hours of kids' activities
3 indoor/outdoor stages
1 unforgettable worship drum/fire/dance finale
More than 100 performers and artists filled the street, Fallout
Urban Art Center, and the 18 studios of the FAI Coop Building.
The five stages anchored the indoor/outdoor event boasting a
crowd teeming with unprecedented diversity. Hosting such a grand
event allows us to interact and build relationships with young
adults, neighborhood residents and businesses, and the arts
community. An unlikely mix of contrasting individuals stood
shoulder to shoulder making conversation, watching performances
and participating in interactive art.
Murals, sculptures, pottery, screen-printing, book making, stained
glass, mosaics, juggling, blacksmith techniques, and kids' activities
were represented in more than 50 interactive stations and displays.
Volunteers offered free food to a line of visitors. A weaving
wall invited participants to write prayers on woven cloth.
The Art Fest blesses our inner-city neighborhood by bringing
a diverse group of neighbors together, generating youth participation,
giving young, local artists exposure, and creating awareness
of our community and Source's partnerships with Christian organizations.
The Art Fest also was an illustration of unity: Over 15 congregations
and organizations, and more than 100 volunteers partnered with
Source. This large event also was an excellent opportunity to
increase awareness, encourage future prayer and participation,
and model Source's values for effectively serving and reaching
diverse, urban neighborhoods and individuals who would not likely
be found in a sanctuary of a church.
May Day Parade
Known as a celebration of the liberals
of liberal Minneapolis, the May Day parade drew more than 5,000
people to the parade and festivities in Powderhorn Park. Source
had a group right in the midst of the Minnesota Society of Pagans,
witch covens, urban activists, Green party, gay and lesbian
rights groups, and theatre groups. Our parade group rolled scaffolding
on wheels, along with worshipping musicians, "human easels"
engaging the crowd to paint on placards around their necks,
and handing out Fallout summer event flyers. The snow flurries
didn't take away from the joy, creativity, worship and witness
that Source brought to this public event. Being a light in darkness
begins with going to where Christians are initially not trusted
or respected, impacting culture, and building relationships
that show and voice God's love and forgiveness.
National Homeless Youth Outreaches
Source has attended Rainbow Gatherings
and young adult fesitvals since 1997. In 2005, 2007 and 2009
we partnered with another ministry that reaches out to the poor
and traveling kids and ventured to a large hippie gathering
in Florida to camp with the people and do what we do here in
Minneapolis: be a friend and a voice to the wounded and alienated.
for more info on this trip, click
here.
In 2006, with the hurricane tragedy still fresh, a group traveled
to New Orleans to do relief work for 2 weeks. They spent time
cooking and serving food, taking work orders for people with
damaged homes, working on the homes, listening to people's stories
and praying for them. For more info on this trip, click
here.
Contact us for info on future trips.
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