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SimpleGifts with Billy McLaughlin
Dec
12
7:30 PM19:30

SimpleGifts with Billy McLaughlin

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Join SimpleGifts with Billy McLaughlin - live at Mount Olivet!

As long-time fans will tell you, SimpleGifts makes musical magic by bringing a modern flair to traditional Christmas carols and hymns. SimpleGifts combines violin, Celtic flutes and bagpipes, piano, acoustic guitar and percussion with angelic three part female vocals to create a “modern Old-World” sound.

Light refreshments will be served in the Community Room during intermission.

Find more information about SimpleGifts HERE.

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Create in Community
Jan
12
6:00 PM18:00

Create in Community

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Need some time and friendly company while you work on a creative project? Join fellow creatives in the Fireside Room on Friday, January 12, 2024 from 6-10pm.

Whatever your portable project -- be it painting, knitting/crocheting, scrapbooking, card-making, digital art -- bring it along.

Light snacks will be provided, and you're welcome to bring a snack to share with the group. To help us plan ahead for space and food, sign up below. This event is designed for adults 18+, and you're welcome to invite friends!

Sign up HERE.

There’s no obligation stay the whole four hours — come when you’re able, and leave when you need.

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Advent Concert
Dec
10
9:00 AM09:00

Advent Concert

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Join our Mount Olivet Musicians in a worship service full of music of the Advent season. We celebrate with voices and band, bells and spoken word.

Interested in joining the Advent Concert choir?

Join in the fun as part of our larger choral ensemble. Contact Angela for more information, agritton@moply.org.

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SimpleGifts with Billy McLaughlin
Dec
8
7:30 PM19:30

SimpleGifts with Billy McLaughlin

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Join SimpleGifts with Billy McLaughlin for our 20th year anniversary - live at Mount Olivet!

As long-time fans will tell you, SimpleGifts makes musical magic by bringing a modern flair to traditional Christmas carols and hymns. SimpleGifts combines violin, Celtic flutes and bagpipes, piano, acoustic guitar and percussion with angelic three part female vocals to create a “modern Old-World” sound.

Light refreshments will be served in the Community Room during intermission.

Tickets are on sale HERE!

  • $45 general admission in advance

  • $40 seniors advance

  • $20 kids/students advance

Find more information about SimpleGifts HERE. Check out their Holiday 2023 promo video HERE.

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Create in Community
Nov
10
6:00 PM18:00

Create in Community

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Need some time and friendly company while you work on a creative project? Whether you're working on a project ahead of the holiday season or just want some time for creative self-care alongside other people, join Beth McGrew-King and others in the Fireside Room on Friday, November 10 from 6-10pm.

Whatever your portable art project -- be it painting, knitting/crocheting, scrapbooking, card-making, digital art -- bring it along.

Light snacks will be provided, and you're welcome to bring a snack to share with the group. To help us plan ahead for space and food, sign up below. This event is designed for adults 18+, and you're welcome to invite friends!

Sign up HERE.

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Special Guest Speaker: Dianne Haulcy
Nov
1
6:30 PM18:30

Special Guest Speaker: Dianne Haulcy

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Have you ever wondered how best to talk to the kids in your life about race and racism?

Join us for a special evening on Wednesday, November 1, as Dianne Haulcy helps us explore how racial bias begins to form in children and offers adults tools for talking to children about race. The same tools will support better conversations with the adults in your life, too! Dianne will preach at 6:30pm worship, and then start her talk at 7:15pm in the Worship Center.

Dianne Haulcy is creator and host of Early Risers, a podcast from Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and Little Moments Count, with frank facts, engaging stories, and real how-tos for anyone who cares about raising children with a clear-eyed understanding of cultural differences, race, and implicit bias. Known for her leadership and vast experience in the field of early childhood development and education, Dianne Haulcy serves as President and CEO of The Family Partnership, a Minneapolis-based non-profit responding to the needs of families by providing mental health therapy, early childhood education and care, and family home visiting. Haulcy is an active member of Liberty Community Church where she serves as a Ruling Elder. She earned a Master of Divinity from Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, a Master of Public Administration from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, and a Bachelor of Arts from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Until the Story is Told Gallery
Sep
10
to Sep 22

Until the Story is Told Gallery

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The gallery displays over twenty photographs and writings about the people, places and stories of Mount Olivet. Come and peruse this art created by Mount Olivet members. 

Thank you to the Mount Olivet writers and photographers for sharing your time and gifts for storytelling with all of us! 

Gallery open daily from September 10-22.

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Brews, Eats & Beats
Aug
5
4:00 PM16:00

Brews, Eats & Beats

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Mount Olivet's biggest summer party has a new name!

It's our 12th year and time for a refresh - welcome to Brews, Eats & Beats!

We will be offering thirst-quenching beverages, local food favorites and a jam packed line-up of bands that will keep your toes, tapping all night long. And it is all about bringing community together for a great cause; raising money for our partners that are fighting hunger - PRISM, Loaves & Fishes and Every Meal.

Saturday, August 5, 2023 from 4-9pm

Rain or Shine!

Get tickets HERE.

Find out more about Brews, Eats & Beats HERE.

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MOTALK
Apr
16
10:00 AM10:00

MOTALK

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Want to explore vegetarian or vegan cooking? It’s good for the environment, good for you and will save you money. Join Ron Frehner in the Fireside Room on Sunday, April 16 from 10-10:40am.

We will explore interest in starting a vegetarian/vegan cooking group where we can all learn from each other and try our new recipes. A vegetarian brunch will be available, courtesy of Ron Frehner.

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Movie Screening of "Till" with special guest Deborah Watts
Apr
15
1:00 PM13:00

Movie Screening of "Till" with special guest Deborah Watts

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Mount Olivet will host a screening of the Hollywood movie, “Till,” on Saturday, April 15, beginning at 1:00 p.m.  The screening is free and open to the public.  Special Guest Deborah Watts, of Plymouth, will join us to introduce the film and host a Q & A session immediately following.  Ms. Watts is Emmett Till’s cousin and the co-founder and executive director of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation (ETLF) and the Emmett Till Institute for Learning and Leadership (E-TILL).  

Till  is a 2022 biographical drama film based on the true story of Mamie Till-Bradley, an educator and activist who pursued justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett in August 1955. The film is dedicated in memory of Mamie Till's life and legacy and was named one of the best films of 2022 by the National Board of Review. 

Mount Olivet’s Racial Equity Team, in collaboration with the Plymouth Diversity, Equity and Inclusion group (PDEI), is sponsoring this event as a part of our ongoing campaign to raise awareness around issues of racial justice and equity.  Feel free to invite friends and neighbors to join us!  We encourage you to register to help us prepare and accommodate everyone.  Register Here.

Best for children 13 years and older.

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