Thank you to everyone that supported the build of tiny homes with Settled at the Woodland Hills facility. These homes were built in collaboration with a number of congregations around the metro area, including Faith Lutheran. As a church, we committed to help build one of these units to be...
Thank you to everyone that sent in responses to the Sacred Settlement survey! Hearing from you helps us to understand what is most important to our congregation, and we’re excited to share the results with you. Questions 1-7 all pertained to the homeless in our community. The survey...
There’s lots of exciting events that Faith is supporting in the coming weeks! Please find the event that calls to you and share your gifts! Sacred Settlement Survey Our mission as a Development Team is to make sure that we are engaging in activities to fight homelessness that are in line...
Since we’ve joined the Sacred Settlement Team, we’ve been blown away by the congregation’s passion to fight homelessness. As a congregation, we are learning more about homelessness and the different ways in which we can make an impact. This has...
We are in exciting times as we continue to make plans for the Sacred Settlement at Faith Lutheran. The Settlement was presented to the Forest Lake Planning Commission in a public meeting on July 20th. While the site plan is still being developed, this was an important meeting and milestone for...
The Minneapolis Park Board opened their parks to the homeless last month, and there are now encampments in about 35 park locations. Some of the larger encampments include Elliot, Peavey, Kenwood and Lyndale Farmstead parks, according to Park Board tent counts. The Star Tribune has published a...
Homelessness often seems far away and an issue for the city. We live in Forest Lake. It can’t possibly be a problem here, right? Unfortunately, there are a lot of people in our community that need our help. For those that experience homelessness, it isn’t some far off issue. It is...
Our congregation has a wonderful opportunity to help two formerly homeless men create a new start and ultimately re-discover 'home'. Gabrielle, Co-Founder of Settled, met Anthony and Matthew three years ago while she was working on her PhD at a cafe in downtown St Paul. These men worked as...
It’s been a few weeks since the Development Team for the Sacred Settlement first got together and kicked off our activities, but we’ve wasted no time in digging into the work and finding some answers. Here are some of the accomplishments from the past week. We reached out to the...
The Development Team is digging in and excited to continue the wonderful work initiated in the exploratory phase of the Sacred Settlement project! We started our journey by walking in the footsteps of those already serving the homeless on a regular basis, by partnering with Walking with a...