Check out our second zine: the Grave Oak. If you’d like to be notified when new issues are out (and receive other updates from Missio Dei), please fill out the form on our home page.
Check out our first edition of the Happy Hawthorn. If you’d like to be notified when new issues are out (and receive other updates from Missio Dei), please fill out the form to the right.
Missio Dei is now accepting applicants for current and upcoming openings.
Our community is made up of both residential members (twenty people living between three houses) and members who live nearby. We are committed to following Jesus’ way of simplicity (we are learning to live sustainably and share our resources), hospitality (we have rooms set aside for folks in transition and offer several meals each week), prayer (you can see our breviary at thebreviary.com), and peacemaking (we engage in local nonviolent resistance and are pursuing a deeper relationship with the Christian Peacemaker Teams).
We are anchored in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood–a diverse neighborhood of immigrants, refugees, punks, artists, homeless folk, students and professionals all within about one square mile. Two out of our three houses are in this neighborhood. The other is a mile to the south.
Before making an inquiry, please look through our rule of life and a summary of our regular rhythm.
For more information and an application send an email to info@missio-dei.com
Thursday, September 10th at 7pm, folks from Missio Dei will be attending a special Prayer Gathering at Wayman AME Church in North Minneapolis. Everyone is invited.
Join us as we gather to pray, testify, and lament in the shadow of economic crisis. As we seek faithful ways of living into Jesus’ call to Jubilee, we recognize that in the midst of action, we must center ourselves in prayer on the One who calls us out of debt into liberty.
In the first half of 2009, almost 1.9 million foreclosure filings have been reported. 3,000 homes in Minneapolis have been foreclosed with thousands more in the larger metropolitan area. If foreclosures continue at current rates, over 9 million homes will enter foreclosure by 2012. While there are some indications of an economic rebound, with unemployment rates approaching 10% and rising it is unlikely that the foreclosure rate will slow down. Join us for prayer. And in coming months, join us in action.
When: Thursday, September 10, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Wayman AME Church, 1221 7th Ave. North Minneapolis
Organized by the MN Clergy and Laity Against Foreclosures and Evictions, Wayman AME Church, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, and the MN Coalition for a People’s Bailout
For more information on why followers of Christ should care about foreclosures, please check out the following:
Jubilee in the Midst of Foreclosure (an article written by Mark Van Steenwyk)
Church gets involved in foreclosure battle (an article about Missio Dei in the Minnesota Christian Chronicle)
For the past several months Missio Dei has been following the case of Rosemary Williams. After living in her neighborhood for 55 years (and in her home for over 20 years), she is facing foreclosure. For many like Rosemary, banks have been unwilling to really sit down and help people keep their homes. It makes financial sense for banks to stonewall…there is nothing in it for them to show compassion.
And so, after court cases and unsuccessful attempts at getting GMAC to negotiate, Rosemary and those standing with her are facing trespassing charges as they remain at her home–a home that she’s lived in for years. As arrests loom, a growing number of activists and friends have come to Rosemary’s house to support her.
Since the folks there need to eat, and since a number of Missio Dei folks are going to be there anyways, we’re moving our community meal this week to Rosemary’s house. Just come as usual, bringing something to share (especially things that work for a hot day). We’ll also be making the vegan chili we make at the hospitality train. Dinner will be served at 6:30pm at 3138 Clinton Avenue South in Minneapolis. We’d love to see you there.
