Center for Social Ministry

02/12/2024

CSM will see you at the Roads to Religion event this Sunday, February 18th at Drake University Olmsted Center from 3-5pm!

Come meet your neighbors and see what we are doing! 🙏🏾

01/16/2024

Here's an amazing video, "The Honorable Harvest" by Robin Kimmerer. The Land is Not Our Own: Seeking Repair Alongside Indigenous Communities includes this video in its programming. This video has such strong and impactful message.

Learn more about the Honorable Harvest at https://bioneers.org/robin-kimmerer-mishkos-kenomagwen-the-teachings-of-grass-bioneers/This video is part of a seri...

01/16/2024

In honor of MLK Day and JustFaith Ministries The Land is Not Our Own: Seeking Repair Alongside Indigenous Communities program, we share an indigenous justice quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ❤️

01/16/2024

We are excited to announce that a new program offering for Want to Talk? Communication Tools for Divided Times, is only a week away!

The program is being held Mondays in-person at St. Stephens in Urbandale from 6:30-8:30pm!

Lindsay Amadeo and Cindy Mumm are co-facilitating this program. We are so excited to have them on board. Now let's see how many seats we fill!

If you or anyone you know are interested in joining this group, register at the link below:

https://justfaith.org/want-to-talk-center-for-social-ministry-winter-2024-small-group/

12/14/2023

We have the new indigenous justice program, The Land Is Not Our Own: Seeking Repair Alongside Indigenous Communities, starting January 15th on Mondays from 3-5pm, it will be an in-person program at Our Lady's Immaculate Heart Church in Ankeny with facilitators Jane Aldermen and Dixie Webb. ☺️

This program inspires and equips people of faith to stand alongside Native communities in working for justice and repair.

There are still seats available and we'd love to have you join us! Click the link to sign up and join us in this transformative JustFaith Ministries program.

We believe strongly in making our programs affordable for everyone! Because of this, all program registration costs are offered on a sliding fee scale. Please choose the registration fee that best aligns with your current financial situation. If $35 is difficult for you, please consider the program....

11/29/2023

During Giving Tuesday we spent our afternoon serving up a wonderful harvest menu to the women at the Fresh Start Women's Center here in Des Moines, IA. It was a Tuesday spent at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church cooking up gratitude, communion, fellowship and prayer. I am so grateful for the opportunity to work with Women at the Well and I can't wait to see how we can collaborate WATW with CSM and JustFaith Ministries programming!

There was a great chalk mural inside the women's center (pictured) that I wanted to share: "Remember the lesson. Forget the Mistake."

10/26/2023

TODAY is the day! Join JustFaith Ministries for a captivating webinar presentation by Sarah Augustine, Indigenous rights activist and author of one of the books central to our new JustFaith program, The Land Is Not Our Own: Seeking Repair Alongside Indigenous Communities.

RESERVE YOUR SPOT:
https://justfaith.org/the-land-is-not-our-own-seeking-repair-alongside-indigenous-communities/

10/16/2023

On Thursday, October 26 at 3:30pm ET/12:30pm PT, JustFaith Ministries staff members will hold an information meeting about The Land is Not Our Own: Seeking Repair Alongside Indigenous Communities. I was able to get a sneak peak at the program video and it was AH-mazing!

The meeting will include tips about starting groups in your church, organization, or area; general information about the programs; and a short experiential introduction to the programs. Register today!

https://justfaith.org/october-2023-program-information-meeting/

10/12/2023

Today I was trying to decide what would make a great door prize for the Harvest Dinner on October 24th at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church and while looking around the office I saw a book titled, Earth Prayers. From Thich Nhat Hanh to Black Elk to Margaret Atwood to Rumi, what a perfect gift idea to represent CSM and the Faith & Grace Garden! I can't wait to give away a couple of these books to the wonderful 2023 garden volunteers!

We purchased books from Better World Books which is B Corp™ certified and I love that with our purchase today, we donated 3 books and we also helped fund non-profit organizations changing the world through education and literacy. "Buy Books. Do Good."

10/04/2023

Come join us October 24th at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church to celebrate the 2023 Faith & Grace Garden volunteers at a Garden Harvest Potluck Dinner!

https://centerforsocialministry.org/garden-harvest-dinner/

10/01/2023

I was invited by JustFaith Ministries graduate and CSM advocate Cindy Mumm to attend Des Moines Intentional Eucharistic Community service this morning. We focused on acts of compassion and I am so grateful to be invited into this space this morning. Thank you!

There is room at the table for us all. ♥️

09/29/2023

Faith & Grace Garden Harvest Dinner committee.

We are at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church brainstorming delicious ideas for the upcoming potluck dinner to celebrate all of the wonderful 2023 garden volunteers. We look so serious here but it was a great meeting as we talked and discussed the event while nibbling on freshly baked chocolate chip and sea salt cookies made by Robin. Yum!