For 2022 all proceeds from the House of Prayer Community Festival will support our Community Partners.
North St. Paul Area Food Shelf
The North St. Paul Area Food Shelf has been dedicated to helping families who need food, since 1979. The Food Shelf is a volunteer-run, non-profit 501c3 organization.
2,600 Families served | 241,230 Pounds of food distributed
Mission
Our unrelenting focus is to provide nutritious food to our neighbors in a respectful manner, while engaging our community in the fight against hunger.
Vision
We envision a community in which everyone has sufficient nutritious food.
Values
We believe that access to nutritious food is a basic human right. We are committed to responding to the needs of our community by providing food distribution and future support services with dignity and respect.
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota – Refugee Services
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota expresses the love of Christ for all people through service that inspires hope, changes lives, and builds community.
Minnesota has a long and proud tradition of helping refugees find safety and establish new lives in our community, dating back to World War II.
Today’s refugees come from many parts of the world, including Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Iraq, and Somalia. While the countries change over the years, the human needs are the same. Refugee families we serve have escaped war, religious persecution and violence in their homes — living through what most of us could not imagine, including starvation, desperation in refugee camps and sickness with limited to no medical care.
When refugees arrive in Minnesota, they come with very little — usually what they can fit in a suitcase and the clothes they are wearing. They need a place to live, a job to sustain their families and emotional support to recover from losses and traumatic experiences they have endured.