We don’t take a summer vacation at Falcon Heights Church. Here’s what’s in store on summer Sundays beginning in June:

• Worship time moves to 9:30 a.m. as of June 3. Summer hours continue through Sept. 2.
• Our Summer Sundays children’s ministry, “Whole Children,” starts June 3. Kids will begin worship with their families. Then right after the children’s message, they’ll go to Faith Formation. Kids will learn practices such as seed art, aromatherapy, meditation and labyrinth walking as a basis for developing self-care and wholeness of life.
• We’ll have an informal Contemplative First Hour at 8:30 a.m. Sundays through Sept. 2. There will be an ongoing Centering Prayer group and a Labyrinth Walk set up. Both these are open to youth as well as adults.
• Starting June 10, worship moves from the sanctuary to the more informal, inviting Gathering Room. We’re planning elements of worship to make it more participatory than usual.
• We’ll resume 10:30 a.m. worship time on Sept. 9 with a “Gathering of the Waters” liturgy and special festivities to kick off the new program year.  And, our First Hour start time in the fall will be 9:15 a.m., which will give us more transition time before worship.

Learn more about healthy aging at a Healthy Aging Forum Tuesday, May 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, 270 N. Kent St., in St. Paul.

This is a free interactive event featuring 30-minute mini-sessions on topics including heart health, scam and fraud prevention, caregiving, the health benefits of volunteering, diabetes self-care, brain health and more. Advance registration is required at aarp.cvent.com/HealthyAgingForum, or call at 1-877-926-8300.

Sponsors are Ramsey County Public Health, AARP Twin Cities, 2nd Half with Lyngblomsten, the American Heart Association, Hallie Q. Brown Community Center and the Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging.

Falcon Heights Church and other local churches and agencies are discussing establishing a Healthy Aging Group in northern Ramsey County. The goal of a Healthy Aging Group is to enable older people to thrive in their communities.

Flower fundraiser

Don’t miss our Mother’s Day Flower Fundraiser on Sunday, May 13. Volunteers from the Como Park Falcon Heights Block Nurse Program will be selling flower packs of four for $5 each after worship. Proceeds go to help seniors in the area improve their wellness and stay in their homes. The program provides homemaker services, exercise classes, health care visits and companionship.

Root Beer Run

Also on Mother’s Day, join Chriss Joyce and her family in a Root Beer Run from noon to 3 p.m. at Boom Island Park, Minneapolis. Run, walk or stroll a half mile or full mile and enjoy root beer with or without ice cream. All registration fees go to People for Parks, a Minneapolis nonprofit that sponsors programs to enhance and promote city parks. Register here

United Theological Seminary announced recently that it will move its campus from New Brighton to St. Paul at the end of 2018. The 55-year-old ecumenical graduate school is an affiliate of the United Church of Christ.

Leaders cited a desire to better serve students who rely on public transportation, to be closer to urban ministries in keeping with the seminary’s social justice emphasis, and to relocate in a smaller, more intimate space. The school currently has 85 students, almost half of whom are distance learners.

The school is looking for new quarters in the Hwy 280/University Avenue neighborhood. It plans to sell the New Brighton facility to Global Academy Charter School, which serves first-generation immigrant students.

Falcon Heights Church and other local churches and agencies are discussing establishing a Healthy Aging Group in northern Ramsey County.

The goal of a Healthy Aging Group is to enable older people to thrive in their communities. Two other groups are already operating in the St. Paul area: The West St. Paul group includes Hamline-Midway, Rondo, Union Park and the West 7th area; a second group focuses on the East Side of St. Paul.

Ours would be the third area group, and like the other two, would focus on the specific needs of our particular populations of older adults.

Falcon Heights Church has been looking for ways to advance our senior ministry. Rev. Rick King has been in touch with Julia Wolf, a planner with St. Paul-Ramsey County Public Health, and Lisa Kane of the Living-at-Home Block Nurse program about this potential partnership.

On March 27, our church hosted the first gathering to explore starting a group, which Julia Wolf would establish but which would become self-directing, self-sustaining and community-based.

A follow-up meeting is scheduled April 24 at 3 p.m. in the Gathering Room at Falcon Heights Church. We expect to meet with people from Como Park Lutheran, New Life Presbyterian, Lyngblomsten, District 10, and others.