Some church communities might have fish frys during Lent or bake sales to raise money but at…read moreSt.Joans we do soup. The soup suppers at St.joan are one of the things I look forward to all year long. We will not miss one of the six Wednesday night dinners if possible. I really enjoy trying all of the home made creations that other families share with love. There is always a mix of old world traditional tomato and bean soups and often a mix of something new and sporty like quinoa squash or tofu noodle. In recent years grilled cheese has been added and there is always the staple bread, milk, juice and cookies. Its much more than soup. It's also sharing time with our great community and making new friends. There is also a great line up of after soup prayer services and sing alongs that I really enjoy if I can get away from the kids!

This is the most loving, Christ following body I have ever experienced over 60 years. They have…read moretaken those, like broken china, see us through God's eyes. It holds my healing together as the Japanese repair China with gold. It makes some beauty of the suffering that we have, do and will live/die through. I can only hope any negativity because it is not strict enough for them, they will see those of us that have been crushed by life have a healing place we need. I am so weary and only hope there is someone who can get me to the community I need.

Great worship team and Pastor! I enjoyed being able to be…read moreinvisible as crazy as that sounds. I just like to be private about my spiritual journey, and focus on God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

From the moment I walked in the door 14 years ago, to getting saved, baptized and married here, and…read morehelping out with the funeral when my Mom passed away, the people at this church have been family to me. They are a real blessing to the community. During Covid they even paid the past due electric bills for an entire local zip code!

We and our children attended this church for 2 1/2 years. Very nice people for the most part, but…read morethey are not interested in growing. Especially when it come to younger people with children. They want the church to be a empty nesters church/ Grandparents church. And some of the sessions members that make decisions for the direction the church is going are very non Christian.

This is a church full of love and grace. Traditions are important but serving your neighbor is…read moreparamount.

Lots of caring people at this church, and Pastor TJ Valtierra led and preached well. The people of…read morethis church are caring and devout, and follow Jesus well. Unfortunately this church got taken over by another church, and a lot of things took a turn for the worse as a result. Many faithful volunteers who led well in this church left at that point. Very sad.

I am music director of this church (since Sept. 2019). This small congregation is friendly and…read morewell established, with a progressive presence on the west side of St. Paul, in the bluff area above downtown St. Paul. It utilizes a combination of in-person worship and livestreaming through its Facebook page. A blended congregation, CPUC embraces the traditions of Presbyterianism and the United Church of Christ (UCC). Committed to social justice, inclusivity, environmental stewardship, radical love, care and service for Loaves and Fishes and other local programs. Music is globally sourced, using a combination of traditional hymns, world songs in various languages, and contemporary compositions. Musical involvements include choir, song leadership through weekly cantor presence, and tailor-made solo and small ensemble experiences. Piano and Celtic harp are instruments heard each Sunday, with world drums sometimes featured. Guest instrumentalists (guitar, violin, and organ) indulge our interests in a variety of music. Pastor (pronouns: he/his) is highly regarded and cherished, having been called to CPUC from a field of 40 ministerial applicants in 2018. Communion is celebrated once per month, with grape juice and floured bread, adding gluten free bread option.

I went to this church after finding out that the other church I normally go to was being held at…read moreLoring Park for Pride. I found this church after doing a Google search for LGBT friendly churches in the Twin Cities area. It was close and I made it just in time for service to start. I was greeted by this cute little boy who hugged everyone and welcomed them. I was also greeted by probably half the people once I got inside the church. Everyone was very welcoming and friendly. They had a fellowship afterwords with great snacks and refreshments. If you're looking for a non judgmental, non discriminating church, I would recommend this place.

St. John's is home for its members. It's a place where we accept each other wherever we are…read morespiritually and where people of all ages, from the very young to the very old and people in between, find places to experience community and find spiritual meaning in a Christian tradition. The children's and youth programs are thriving, the music is amazing, and the liturgies and sermons provide meaning, purpose, and principles for what matters. People who believed they were done with religion are surprised with the sense of community and spiritual meaning they find at St. John's. People who want a spiritual home find what they are looking for. St. John's has a long tradition of not only nurturing children and providing community, but it has been involved in social justice issues within the parish and in the wider world for decades. Members of St. John's have long-term involvement with the peace movement, human rights, GLBTQ issues, anti-poverty initiatives, refugee issues, racial equality and equal opportunity, among many other social issues.

Nice church. Couldn't go to my typical church due to bad icy roads. Luckily i found d this place…read moreonline. It's nice and simple church and so close to my home. Everything looks clean and tidy. Plenty of parking also.

It pains me to do this review, but it has to be done. This Church has officially lost its reverent…read moreNovus Ordo card, why? Due to the fact that it has fallen to the modernists. Father Ben who I thought was a little querky at first, confirmed my suspicions that he was a fake and a fraud traditionalist Priest even though he himself claimed he'd uphold it here. Year after year that he's been here, he has modernized and contemporized a lot of this liturgy beyond what is acceptable to me in my humble opinion. Starting with the once beautiful traditional music, he's turned his back on that and had his new music director change it into contemporary cringe music like the rest of the multiple Novus Ordo Churches do, changing from the Organ to the Piano because the guy is bad at playing the Organ. But there's other aspects as well, specifically from this weasle of a Priest who I knew there was something amiss by his demeanor, the way he even speaks is so forced and fake to me that I knew he wasn't here to uphold the traditions of Good Shepherd. From the music, to the prayers, to the homily, eucharistic ministering, subtle slight aspects just keep modernizing and modernizing, alter serving is being stripped of reverence, the gestures, the use of incense being diminished, the design and ornamentation is slightly being altered (although not as bad as other Diocesan Churches). The type of people entering into the congregation is also affecting the liturgy, because I believe that in this synodal style, the newer lay people here are influencing the way the liturgy and Church is being ran, it's being transformed into another hipster influenced dump honest to goodness. It was already bad enough that they had been using women alter acolytes, and extraordinary ministers, but I could tolerate that nonsense (because women will never, or at least should never become Deacons or Priests) due to the fact that a lot of other traditional elements were still there. Hah! Little did I know that they were hanging on by a thread and were going to be slowly but surely be eroded by unserious people and clergymen. The Gospel talks about bearing good fruits, and bad ground will bear bad fruit, I believe this applies to the modernist clergy who ruin liturgies like this, bearing bad fruit because their hearts are hardened by the modernist influences, and tradition is enemy number one to them, as well as the liturgy and teachings of our Church Fathers and Saints that have blessed us and gave us something to appreciate, but these modernist hipsters despise because it's truly Catholic. My Grandfather used to attend this parish, I only attended this Church because he attended this Church and I wanted to honor him. But the problem is that the Church didn't honor me or his and other predecessors blessings and honoring of this Church, and tossed them away for their cringe, unserious, irreverent, boomer, hipster takes on the liturgy. And I know this Church was built after Vatican 2 to adhere to its changes on the Church, but the Priests and lay here for the most part still adhered to traditional liturgical practices that I felt comfortable being in. But once again, they and their pride and ego couldn't stand the traditional liturgical practices and forced their nonsense upon it, which leads me to today. I will no longer attend this Church until I hear that the Priest is either gone or gone through massive changes, and the modernization of the music, liturgy, design, and every other stain that has crept into this Church like many others is wept clean from here. Sincerely~Reverent Church goer.

an amazing place to learn and get closer with Jesus! people are extremely welcome and kind, never…read moremake you feel left out. Truly an amazing beautiful place.

My wife got invited to Eagle Brook and we took a chance on going. I haven't been a very church…read moregoing person for a very long time but the staff here made us feel very welcome and the messages clear and relatable. Love this place!