Parishioners Patrice McFarlane and Catherine Beringer invite you to consider joining a St. Stephen’s Cohort that is forming to share in the Vineyard Stewards Ministry with Good Courage Farms, an agrarian ministry of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. The farm grows 170 varieties of fruit and features 93 acres of orchards, vineyards, woods, and wetlands in Hutchinson, MN. Using organic and increasingly increasingly-regenerative methods, the bounty of the farm is shared with food justice ministries such as our partners at First Nations Kitchen.  

The Vineyard Stewards is a new seasons-long small group ministry in which we will enter into a relationship with a row or two of grapevines on the farm. In parallel with facilitated reflection on Jesus’ parables and feeding ministry, Stewards will learn about the art and science of tending vines in the upper Midwest. The outcome will be Eucharistic wine to be blessed and shared in the parishes of cohort members, as well as meaningful connections amongst members, farmers, and the earth which yields the fruit. Expect prayerful, joyful, hard work and satisfying results. 

Stewards will participate in several immersion days on the farm:

March 4
May 6
June 17
July 29
1-2 August/September days (Dates TBD).

7-10 parishioners are needed to form a team (we have 3 already) and registration is fast approaching!

Do you want to join us on what promises to be an amazing journey?

LEARN MORE > Contact Patrice (612-868-3685) or Catherine (612- 269-2935)