• Minneapolis Beacon Leadership Team Check-in with Emily – 4/20/20

    Please join Emily Goldthwaite-Fries for a meeting of Minneapolis Beacon Leadership Teams on Monday, April 20. Your registration confirmation email will have instructions for how to access the online meeting. window.bboxInit = function () { bbox.showForm('58886855-eed2-4a91-9aef-b3ec988b79bd'); }; (function () { var e = document.createElement('script'); e.async = true; e.src = 'https://bbox.blackbaudhosting.com/webforms/bbox-min.js'; document.getElementsByTagName('head').appendChild(e); } ());

  • FMF Host Coordinator Virtual Update – 4/21/20

    Join Beacon's CEO/President, Lee Blons, and Families Moving Forward staff for a shelter program update. There will be time to submit questions during the meeting, but you can also do so in the registration form below. Instructions for how to access the online meeting will be in your registration confirmation email.   window.bboxInit = function […]

  • Clergy Pointing The Way Home – 5/12/20

    On Tuesday May 12,  join Minneapolis Area Synod Bishop Rev. Ann M. Svennungsen and Beacon’s CEO/President Lee Blons for a conversation with clergy across the Southwest Metro Area. Hear about the real opportunities we have to house over 50 families in Scott and Carver Counties and how the Synod and Beacon’s shared faith values call […]

  • Beacon Town Hall Webcast – 5/12/20

    In this time of disruption, people in our shelters and housing are facing particularly big challenges when it comes to staying healthy and employed. Lee Blons, CEO/President, will be hosting our second virtual townhall along with Mary Wheeler,  Director of Service Partnerships and Shelter. Mary will share how this crisis is shaping our shelter guests […]

  • Beacon Leadership Team Assembly – 5/19/20

    Each member of your Beacon Leadership Team is invited to our May 19th Assembly.  This time to gather is even more important now as we are all physical distancing from each other.  At the Assembly, we will both take a look back at the things that made your work in your congregation meaningful and successful […]

  • Beacon Leadership Team Assembly – 6/23/20

    Join us from 4:00 – 6:00 PM for this virtual leadership assembly focusing on the special session and Beacon’s bold policy initiative, Bring It Home Minnesota. Ben Helvick Anderson, Beacon’s Policy Director will highlight the strategy for the summer and fall leading to the January legislative session. There is much we can do to influence […]

  • Evicted: Reading Group

    3 Tuesdays: July 7, 13, and 21 at 4 p.m. As racial injustice consumes our local and global attention, Beacon leaders in St. Paul will take read and discuss the Pulitzer Prize winning book Evicted, by Matthew Desmond. Desmond uses narrative nonfiction and a close lens on another Midwestern city with extreme racial inequality, Milwaukee, […]

  • Beacon Leadership Team Assembly: Suburban Hennepin County

    On Monday July 13 from 4 - 5:30 p.m., Beacon will hold a Regional Strategy Meeting for congregations in Suburban Hennepin County.  This will be a more informal conversation about Suburban Hennepin’s regional strategy to Advance Bring It Home MN in the strategic region of Minnesota’s State Senate District 44 and Build Hennepin Power in […]