Environmental Challenges and Community Solutions in Our Neighborhoods
Thursday, February 19, 2026
9:30am | CoffeePlus
10:00am | Meeting and Program
Redeemer Lutheran Church, Atrium (3770 Bellaire Ave, White Bear Lake, MN 55110)
Guest Speaker: Gary Schroeher, Environmental Consultant
Environmental protection in the community begins with small, everyday actions that collectively make a big difference. By reducing waste, conserving water, energy, and choosing sustainable products, all of us can help preserve natural resources and reduce pollution. Local initiatives such as tree and native flower planting events, neighborhood cleanups, and recycling programs encourage people to work together toward a healthier environment. Through shared efforts, neighborhoods can build cleaner, greener, and more sustainable places to live.
Gary Schroeher is a member of Redeemer, and is a member of White Bear Lake’s Environmental Advisory Commission, served on the Ramsey Washington Watershed Citizens Advisory Committee, is a Ramsey County Recycling Ambassador, worked for the MPCA in the 80’s, and has been an environmental consultant for 35 years.
Donations are accepted to support programming.
THE WORLD OF KARSTEN - and the wider world
March 19, 2026
9:30am CoffeePlus
10:00am Devotions & Program
Redeemer Lutheran Church, Atrium (3770 Bellaire Ave, White Bear Lake, MN 55110)
Guest Speaker: Karsten Nelson, Redeemer’s Pastor of Congregational Engagement
Come get reacquainted with Pastor Karsten Nelson (or maybe introduced) as he will share, inspire and inform us about his life since he was the Associate Pastor at Redeemer 18 years ago. Come hear about daughters and a dog, sailing and soccer, Tanzania and Doulos, cooking and food ministry, trying to relax and swing some clubs, and now a fine welcome back to meaningful work with and through Redeemer.
We will also look at the wider world around us and how our faithful living meets the world.
Donations are accepted to support programming.
RSVP information coming soon.
“BIRTHDAY CANDLES” Area Premier Comedy
April 16, 2026
10:25am Bus departs from Redeemer
3:00pm Approximate return to Redeemer
Sidekick Theatre (11411 Masonic Home Dr, Bloomington, MN 55437)
The ingredients for the cake are simple: eggs, butter, sugar, salt. Look closer though, and you’ll see the essence of life itself. Every year, Ernestine bakes a cake and celebrates with her family on her birthday - a delicious ritual that unfolds onstage across 90 years of birthdays. We meet Ernestine and the people who sweeten her life every year on this day as she grows from 17 to 107 years old. Through glimpses of her life, “Birthday Candles” tenderly explores motherhood, family, love, loss and finding your place in the universe.
This charming new play, recently on Broadway, will warm the soul.
Cost: $85, payable on registration, checks to “Redeemer Primetime”, includes play, bus, and lunch.
Lunch Menu: Creamy Chicken Breast, with Roasted Red Potatoes, Glazed Carrots, Coleslaw, Dinner Rolls, Assorted Desserts, Coffee, Hot Tea.
RSVP information coming soon.
CARE BELOW ZERO
May 21, 2026
9:30am CoffeePlus
10:00am Devotions & Program
Redeemer Lutheran Church, Atrium (3770 Bellaire Ave, White Bear Lake, MN 55110)
Guest speaker John Solomon
Join us as we meet and learn about John Solomon's life above the Arctic circle delivering behavioral healthcare to remote Inupiaq villages. John will share the story of the last seven years shaped by extreme weather, distance, limited resources, and what some of the most remote communities taught him about care and humility.
John Solomon, LPC, is a behavioral health leader and educator whose work has ranged from bush-plane travel into Alaska Native villages above the Arctic Circle to statewide behavioral health systems leadership. He is focused on practical community solutions that hold up when resources are limited and the needs are real. He now lives in Minnesota with his family.
Donations are accepted to support programming.
RSVP information coming soon.