Hospitality House Fundraising Project

Of all our values, hospitality is most central to who we are as a community. Hospitality has taken many shapes throughout our history – from short term guests who have recently experience foreclosure to longer term guests who have had a history of homelessness and/or institutionalization. We have received many guests from many different walks [...]
The Feast of the Holy Innocents

Today, according to some accounts, is the Feast of the Holy Innocents. The Holy Innocents are those boys under the age of two who Herod (out of fear of coming King of the Jews) killed in Bethlehem. Many traditions regard these massacred children to be the first martyrs, for they (in a very literal sense) were killed because [...]
videos from Jesus Radicals 2011

In August 2011, Missio Dei hosted the 2011 Jesus Radicals conference. Here are some of the sessions from that gathering (including a talk on “Christianity and Anarchism” by Sarah and Mark):
Welcome to the Table

By Mark Van Steenwyk I grew up in a household where the dining room table was simply used as storage. It was a place for mail, keys, and stuff that didn’t fit inside the “junk drawer.” We certainly didn’t sit around the table for dinner; we sat around the television instead. That is why it [...]
Sins of the Past? reflections on aboriginal justice

By Mark Van Steenwyk Aboriginal justice was largely a non-issue to me until two years ago. This is a sad thing for me to confess. For my entire life, I’ve lived with Native neighbors. I grew up near White Earth in Northwestern Minnesota. In my twenties, I moved to the Twin Cities, which is home to Little Earth, [...]

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Our central practice at Missio Dei is hospitality; guests are welcome. You are welcome to participate in the life of our community in a number of ways. What follows is a brief introduction we’ve put together to help visitors learn about life at Missio Dei. Participants in our community tend to fall into these groupings: [...]

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our weekly rhythm

Most of what shapes our community happens in the unscheduled times. However, here’s a snapshot of the regular rhythm of life at Missio Dei: Sunday evenings at 5pm, we gather together at Clare House (2717 8th Street S in Minneapolis), one of our community houses. The evening starts with an Agape Feast (the early church [...]

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our rule of life

Missio Dei is committed to Jesus’ way of hospitality, simplicity, prayer, peace, and resistance. Missio Dei lives to embody Jesus’ presence—particularly on the West Bank. The West Bank is a diverse neighborhood of immigrants and punks and artists and homeless people and students and professionals. This is our rule of life (the word “rule” is [...]

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about us

Folks gathered at the "Hospitality Train."

Founded in 2003, Missio Dei is an urban intentional community with two community/hospitality houses. We are also a church that welcomes visitors of all backgrounds to our regular gatherings and meals. We are committed to following Jesus’ way of simplicity (seeking a sustainable life with a healthy relationship to possessions), hospitality (inviting friends and strangers to share our life together), prayer (being rooted in life-giving spiritual rhythms), peacemaking (breaking our addiction to power as we get in the way of violence and injustice), and resistance (naming and challenging oppression wherever we find it as we seek to embody an alternative).

We are rooted in the West Bank (and surrounding) area of Minneapolis, committed to Anabaptist beliefs, and seek to embody the radical love of Christ in the shadow of Empire.

Most of our members live together in two houses. Sattler House is located at 3312 31st Ave S in Minneapolis. Clare House is located at 2717 8th Street S in Minneapolis.

events

Roundtable Discussion [Jan 13]

You are invited to dinner and a roundtable discussion hosted by our friends at the Rye House (2204 10th Ave. S. Minneapolis) starting at 7pm on Friday, January 13th. This month’s discussion will be about women and the Catholic priesthood. We will be joined by Linda Wilcox and Monique Venne, both Catholic Womenpriests. They will [...]

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Jesus Dojo Workshop [Jan 14]

How do we close the gap between how we want to live and how we actually live? Too often our methods of spiritual formation are individualistic, information driven or disconnected from the details of every day life. If Jesus of Nazareth demonstrated and taught a revolutionary way of love that is actually possible, alive with healing [...]

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