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Mindekirken October 2020 COMMUNICATOR Newsletter of the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church - ELCA No. 200 Explore — Discover — Celebrate October 2—11, 2020 All events viewed through www.leifmn.org Visit each day for a featured “Destination of the Day” with links to Nordic experiences HIGHLIGHTS of LEIF online Events Fri., October 2 at 7:30 p.m. LIVESTREAMING Concert by Riverside Winds Leifmn.org Destinations: Oct. 2: Norwegian Connections: The Riverside Winds, preeminent Norway House, Minneapolis Twin Cities woodwind quintet, pre- Grieg Museum, Norway sent a concert of music by composers from all five Nordic countries. Augsburg University, Mpls. Presented by the Edvard Grieg Society of Oct. 3: Nordic Connections: MN in collaboration with LEIF. Nordic Cuisine, and Suggested donation $20 Nat’l Nordic Museum, Seattle WA Oct. 4: Nordic Worship at 11 a.m Sun., October 4 at 2 p.m. Preacher: Arden Haug Concert by Duo Ihana Norway, Finland & Japanese Pianist Rie Tanaka and American Connections: Finnish-American Cellist Jesse Nummelin Mindekirken Embedded YouTube launch - also available Nobel Peace Center, Oslo for later viewing Sibelius Museum, Finland Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Minor, Op.36 by Edvard Grieg Finlandia U/FAHC, USA Four pieces op.78 for Cello and Piano, and Finlandia by Jean Sibelius Oct. 5: Sweden/Swedish America Sun., October 11 Gammelgården, Scandia MN at 2 p.m. Oct. 6: 11 am Alt for Norge talk Concert by TV Norge Tidløs: Norwegian Emigrant Museum, Norwegian Ottestad, Norway hymns and 2 pm Lecture: Terje Joranger folk tunes Oct. 7: Finlandia Foundation; Embedded YouTube Video launch—also available for later viewing— “Wife-carrying Events” & film Recorded in a Norwegian barn! This group has performed previously at Oct. 8: The Sámi People; Mindekirken, and last year at the Chapel in the Hills, Sámi Museum, Siida, Finland Rapid City, South Dakota. Watch and enjoy the music — Oct. 9: 2 pm Leif Eriksson Day Donate to LEIF to support the programs Lecture — Prof. Kristjana Gunnars, Iceland and Greenland Oct. 10: 11 am Iceland Travel Adventure presented by Magne Hatlevik Oct. 11: Nordic Worship at 11 a.m. Preacher: Andrés Roberto Albertsen 2 pm Tidløs på Låven! Concert from Norway, Danish American Center, and Museum of Danish America The Communicator is published monthly by the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church 924 East 21st Street, Minneapolis MN 55404-2952 www.mindekirken.org Office (612) 874-0716 2 From the Pastor: Never so wrong that it's not good for anything My mother often said that place and how I should get there are elderly or ill and have now (see headline) when something and she had to confirm by been able to participate in online went wrong. Maybe that's why telephone that they had placed services because we had to have I'm an optimist? Against all odds, food and everything I needed to online services every week. Much I went, nevertheless, on vacation be in the cabin for 10 days with- of this we may be able to to Norway and now I am here! out going shopping or meeting continue with after Corona. My new office is in a cabin on other people. The police did not But we have also learned Kongslikammen inVinstra in let me in until they had received that there are some people who Gudbrandsdalen. (photo) that confirmation. do not care, and leaders who When I bought a new laptop on encourage people not to wear the phone , it was delivered to masks and do not keep their me in a bag that was placed distance. It has become a political outside the door and then the war of life or death literally courier disappeared before I speaking. Two hundred thousand opened the door. It took a while dead is not a joke, it is the reality before I made it work. But we live with and some are at the time of writing fighting on the wrong this, I am without side ,for someone is Corona symptoms, helping the virus to so I hope I am not multiply fast. infected. But the flight Anne Brit Aasland from Minneapolis / St Paul pastor to Chicago was packed and they I have uploaded mobile data that talked about keeping their works on my laptop, so that I, distance, but that was totally Hybrid Fall Worship among other things, could be at impossible. But on Scand- the Mindekirken’s Kirkekaffe inavian Airlines (SAS) from and everything went very well, Chicago to Copenhagen and Each Sunday, recorded worship until my laptop died Monday from there to Oslo, there was a services are posted on our web- night, and I had to get a new one lot of space between each site www.mindekirken.org. Min- that was driven up to the cabin passenger and then I felt a little dekirken has its own YouTube on Tuesday, because I'm in safer. channel. Hymn sheets and tran- quarantine. Never so wrong that it's scripts of the Norwegian sermons In Norway, COVID-19 is not good for anything. are available in pdf format under still taken seriously, here the We have learned a lot in the “Worship” tab. virus has not become political, this Corona time. We have learn- An in-person, limited ca- and people are not asked to ed that we cannot take life for pacity, combined Sunday Wor- please follow the guidelines if granted, we must be careful and ship service with Holy Commun- they want or think it appropriate. cautious. We have learned to pay ion will be offered on October People from the US cannot enter attention to each other, and we 25th, at 11am, requiring advance the country, but I am one of the have experienced a lot of love registration through the church exceptions because I am a and care and that how we behave office. All Sundays will contin- Norwegian citizen and I have the can mean life or illness and death ue with available online worship connection to Norway that I have for our fellow human beings. services in Norwegian and Eng- children who live here and I'll be Corona has made people inven- lish. visiting them. But that is not tive and had it not been for enough. Here in Norway they do Corona, we may not have started not ask people to please be kind with Zoom meetings where we to be in quarantine if they want can now have contact with to! No, here you are put in people who are at the cabin or quarantine. I had to have written who live far away or even are in proof from my daughter about another country. And it is a great how the quarantine would take pleasure to hear about those who 3 Vil du lære norsk? This LOFOTEN ISLANDS HURTIGRUTEN fall we are offering a variety of Join us for an out-of-the- Join us for an out-of-the- language, literature or conver- ordinary tour to the Lofoten ordinary tour along Norway’s sation classes designed specifi- Islands of Northern Norway. coast on Hurtigruten MS Mid- cally with beginner to more We will begin our tour in natsol. We will explore the experienced learners in mind. Trondheim with a visit to Nida- Norwegian coastline as we Additionally, we are excited to rosdomen, then travel on the travel roundtrip from Bergen share our line-up of fall travel Nordlandsbanen railroad from to Kirkenes. This seminar will seminars. Trondheim to Bodø where we also present a number of land During a time when will take a cruise on Hurtig- excursions, which highlight Norway’s borders might be ruten to Svolvær on the Lofo- some of Norway’s hidden closed for all, but necessary ten Islands. Here we will ex- gems. travel, we will bring a little plore the dramatic scenery and piece of Norway to you. vibrant fishing villages through SEMINAR These two-hour virtual semi- a variety of excursions. Wednesday, November 25th nars will be brought to life 6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. through Zoom, PowerPoint and SEMINAR Cost: $30 other media. Seminars will be Wednesday, October 21st Instructor: Magne Hatlevik in English. Register by the day 6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. before event--no passport re- Cost: $30 quired! Instructor: Magne Hatlevik For more information about our fall session and other program updates, please visit http://www.mnlcp.org. Velkommen til oss! Krista Marie Schweppe, Program Administrator Mindekirken Treasures—On-line shopping opens on Nov. 2 Please call the office to schedule Cookie Baking 'Dugnad' a donation delivery time. Items 'Dugnad' translation: gratefully accepted are: Collective work on a project, like a threshing bee or barn raising. Norwegian sweaters - 2020 new or vintage Mark your calendar for Sat. Scandinavian fine Nov.21st and 28th for a cookie collectables baking dugnad for the pre- Mindekirken fall events are going Handknit wool items ordered cookie and take-out on-line! The annual November hardanger embroidery Rømmegrøt sale. (on Dec. 5) Treasure Chest sale and the Dec- other handcrafted We will be making Rosettes, ember Norwegian Cookie sale Scandinavian items. Krumkake and Sandbakkels. will take place with advance or- Masks are required on ders taken on-line, followed by Do you have a extra special gift church property, as well as social curb side pick-up. Watch for up- or service to donate for the popu- distancing. Please register in coming details on the new Min- lar Silent Auction? Please call advance with the church office dekirken Treasures on-line store! and let us know! to receive more details. 4 Kirkekaffe fun on Zoom — Sundays at 1:00 p.m.