Fall Equipping
Equipping is a time for everyone in our community to receive training, resources, and to learn together. Below are the opportunities being offered this fall.
Classes
Bible Project Exodus Way Deep Dive
Led by Dr. Sara Sosa
As a church we will be studying Exodus this fall! This course will explore the structure and main themes of the book of Exodus at a deeper level than Sunday sermons. Study the impact of God’s covenant with Israel to learn what it means when God moves into the neighborhood. This class will be a “flipped classroom” – which means you will watch Bible Project content during the week to discuss with others during the class time frame. Preview the course at bibleproject.com/classroom.
Childcare provided.
Sundays, October 12th – November 16th, 9:45-10:45 AM
Location: Mill City Church (685 13th Ave NE)
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Indispensable Resources for Christ Followers
Led by Dr. Leland Eliason
In this class we will seek to explore the insights of the late British Christian psychiatrist, Frank Lake, regarding Jesus as the second Adam, a fully alive human being. Jesus was grounded in full acceptance by the Father, received daily sustenance, claimed his identity and relished the work he came to do. Lake argues that if acceptance, sustenance, status and achievement were essential for Jesus, they are indispensable for each of us. The goal of the class seeks to ensure that we incorporate each of these into our lives.
Childcare provided.
Sundays, October 12th – November 16th, 9:45-10:45 AM
Location: Mill City Church (685 13th Ave NE)
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How to Read the Bible for Teenagers
Led by Pastor Rose Gallatin
In this class, we will learn more about biblical genre, literary context, and historical context, giving students tools to confidently read the Bible and explore its story for themselves. We will be using insights from The Bible Project and John Goldingay’s A Reader’s Guide to the Bible, and we will end each class with practical application. This class is a high-challenge class for students who are ready to go deeper in their understanding and study of scripture and is recommended for middle and high school students who are at or above an 8th-grade reading level.
Childcare Provided.
Sundays, October 19th – November 16th, 9:45-10:45 AM
Location: Mill City Church (685 13th Ave NE)
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Uncertainty and the Believer
Led by Kyle Marsh and Dr. Brian Turnquist
Uncertainty is a universal and daily experience for each of us: weather forecasts, health outcomes, accidents, answered and unanswered prayer. The experience of uncertainty is found throughout scripture and can be quantified and measured using probability and statistics. Join us as we explore what mathematics has to say about uncertainty, what God’s word says about it, and how we as God’s people can faithfully respond.
Childcare provided.
Sundays, October 12th – November 16th, 9:45-10:45 AM
Location: Mill City Church (685 13th Ave NE)
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One Time Seminars
Expressive Art as a Spiritual Practice
Led by Rachel Postler, certified expressive art facilitator currently pursuing her MA in Art Therapy
Join us for a 2-hour creative retreat where we’ll make personal art pieces to explore whatever life season you’re in right now. No artistic skill required, just curiosity.
Whether you’re facing challenges like grief, job changes, health issues, or celebrating new beginnings, answered prayers, or seasons of abundance, we’ll use simple art materials to create a visual “map” of your current experience. This hands-on process often helps people gain clarity, process emotions, and hear God’s voice in new ways. Many find that working with their hands quiets their inner critic and opens space for the Holy Spirit to speak.
Here’s what we’ll do: Using provided art supplies (paper, textures, colors, simple materials), we’ll work through a gentle process together—naming where you are now, acknowledging confusion or clarity, expressing honest feelings to God, noticing how God provides daily, growing in trust, and glimpsing hope ahead. You’ll create something to take home that captures your spiritual journey.
This is for all experience levels. Come as you are, and discover how creativity can become a form of prayer and reflection.
Childcare provided.
Sunday, October 12th, 3-5 PM
Location: Mill City Church – Great Room
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Peacemaking in Polarized Times
Led by Pastor Steph and Dr. Ramón Pastrano
Division and polarization are not new realities in the world, or in our communities. As we live our lives in families, workplaces, schools and neighborhoods – how can we live as Jesus followers in divisive times?
Childcare provided.
Monday, October 13th, 6:30-8:30 PM
Location: Mill City Church (685 13th Ave NE)
Men’s Breakfast
Come join us for a morning of stories, community, and bacon! We’ll start with breakfast, move to hearing from a panel on what God has been doing in their lives, and end with an opportunity for table discussions on what stood out. This is a fantastic opportunity to get to know some of the other men at Mill City in your life stage and those outside of it!
Childcare provided.
Saturday, October 18th, 9-11 AM
Location: Mill City Church (685 13th Ave NE)
Faith and Fake News: Navigating Online Information with Intention and Emotional Intelligence
Led by: Rachel Wightman, MLIS & Katie Delgado, MS, MA, LAMFT
In today’s culture, we are constantly surrounded by information via social media, news, and other online platforms. While this access can keep us informed about the world around us, evaluating what we see, hear, and read gets more and more challenging. Much of the content we encounter is designed to provoke emotionally-driven reactions, making it harder to think critically, consider carefully, and respond with wisdom.In this seminar, Rachel and Katie will guide participants through teaching, discussion, and reflection designed to equip you with practical tools for navigating the current online landscape with greater intentionality, emotional intelligence, and a faith-integrated lens.
Childcare provided.
Sunday, November 2nd, 3-5 PM
Location: Mill City Church – Great Room
Peacemaking in Polarized Times – Going Deeper
Led by Pastor Steph and Dr. Ramón Pastrano
Childcare provided.
Monday, November 3rd, 6:30-8:30 PM
Location: Mill City Church (685 13th Ave NE)
Going Deeper Women’s Seminar
Join us at our Going Deeper Women’s seminar! You will hear a short message and a panel discussion from women in our congregation about a topic that has been formative in their lives. Afterwards there will be table discussions where you will have a chance to share some of your own journey with this topic and discuss with other women at Mill City in smaller groups – both those in your life stage and those outside of it! Make connections with others that you can continue to develop outside of this space. At this seminar Rachel Larson will be speaking about friendships in different seasons of life.
Childcare provided.
Saturday, November 8th, 9:30-11:30 AM
Location: Mill City Church – Great Room
Groups
New to Mill City Group
Led by Amy Corriher
New to Mill City groups are designed as an intentional space for those who are newer to Mill City to get to know others who are also newer to our community. During this time we’ll discuss sermons and share our stories as an opportunity to connect with other group members. This group is highly relational and discussion based.
Every week we will spend time getting to know each other through community time questions (similar to the worship services) as well as engage with recent sermons through Dwelling in the Word, which is a way of engaging with Scripture, spiritually submitting to the text as one way God speaks to us with a willingness to be shaped by what God might want to say through the Scripture. It is listening for what God may be saying through a specific scripture passage. We will use these questions to guide our listening:
What grabs your attention in this passage?
What questions would you want to ask?
Where and in what ways do I feel the Spirit inviting me to listen and respond this week?
We’ll also leave some time at the end of each gathering to talk about ways to get more connected to the larger Mill City community and answer any questions you have.
Childcare provided.
We will have two groups meeting this fall:
Sunday, October 12th – Sunday, November 16th, 9:45-10:45 AM
Wednesday, October 22nd – December 3 (26th off for Thanksgiving), 6:30-7:30 PM
Location: Mill City Church
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