Flourishing Needs Funding

Help us raise $30,000 by December 31 to sustain this faith community.

Some of you have a faith community you call home and come to 40 Orchards alongside it. Some of you found us after leaving church, and this is the faith community you have right now. Either way, you belong to something bigger than the circle you attended.

In Genesis 1, God sees each part of creation and sees that it is tov: good, whole, flourishing. The goodness is already there, woven into the light, the land, and every living thing. But tov me’od, “very good,” comes only at the end, when God sees everything together. In the Hebrew imagination, flourishing is never one thing alone. It’s what happens when everything is held in relationship.

That’s the kind of flourishing we’re building together, and flourishing needs funding. A circle fee covers your seat. Gifts, given as each person is able, sustain the whole community. Our hope is that one day, enough of this community will give that no one has to pay for a seat at all.

What’s happening in this community

A Scripture Circle at Lino Lakes Correctional Facility. Once a month, we are able to bring a Scripture Circle to the guys experiencing incarceration at Lino Lakes. We are learning from their wisdom, making space for their questions, and honoring their perspectives.
A Pastors’ Cohort: an ecumenical community of care. Clergy from across denominations gathered in our pastors’ cohort from January to June. It was a place for pastors to be pastored, find community, wrestle with hard questions, and bring back fresh insights to their congregations. We are doing it again in 2027.
A Justice & Faith Cohort: a framework of liberation. This fall, 18 people, from here and around the country, began seven months of studying justice together. We are learning from Scripture, ancestors, and the justice movements that have come before us, to dig into the work of repair, resistance, and communal liberation that has always been ours to do.
A New-to-us Home at the Center of Belonging. Our Ancestors Roots group, our full day reclaiming circles, and our cohorts are all being held in the chapel at the Center of Belonging. This space is giving us the rhythm of returning to a space and making it sacred.
A podcast anyone can hear. Searching the Sacred has been around for 5 years, and has more than 100 episodes out in the world. The 10 Women, 3 Traditions season we released in early 2026 was an amazing and formative experience of learning.
Room for everyone. We make sure cost doesn’t keep anyone from coming. Your gift keeps that door open.

This community has been around for more than ten years. We have had more than a dozen monthly roots groups, seven church partnerships, and more than one hundred people in a cohort. The flourishing has already been here, and we hope it can continue. Want to hear more? Read some of the stories shared last year: Meagan, Sana, Claire, and Colette.

Our goal: $30,000 by December 31

A year-end gift doesn’t fund one program. It sustains all of it. When you give, you’re saying this community matters to you, and you’re making sure it’s here for the next person who needs it.

If 40 Orchards has become one of your faith communities, consider choosing a monthly gift below. Steady gifts let us plan ahead and keep saying yes. Monthly givers are how we’ll reach the day when no one has to pay for a seat.

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40 Orchards is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization and your donation is tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law. To claim a donation as a deduction on your U.S. taxes, please keep your email donation receipt as your official record. We'll send it to you upon successful completion of your donation. We will never sell, trade, publish, or share your personal information. If you prefer to give through your donor advised fund or employee matching, our Candid profile is 45-4709589. Checks can be mailed to 7620 Aldrich Ave S, Richfield, MN 55423.

In their words

“40 Orchards didn’t start as my primary spiritual community... When I took the plunge to commit to my first months long cohort, it gave me the chance to make lifelong friends to share this expansive journey.”
Michele, Justice & Faith Cohort

“Lisa and Steph are skillful guides; participants are open, funny, vulnerable, smart, willing to engage, to be challenged and even changed... my relationship with my sacred text was enlivened, as was my preaching.”
Victoria, Pastors’ Cohort

“For people who are in the process of deconstruction, 40 Orchards offers a safe onramp back into a community of faith and a pathway to healing from religious trauma.”
David, Justice & Faith Cohort

Other ways to give

Donor advised funds. Recommend a grant to 40 Orchards, EIN 45-4709589. DAF grants can take several days to process, so recommending by mid-December helps your gift arrive by year end.
Employer matching. Many employers match charitable gifts. Check with your HR team.
Candid. You can find our profile on Candid.
By check. Make checks payable to 40 Orchards and mail them to 7620 Aldrich Ave S, Richfield, MN 55423
In honor of someone. Give on behalf of someone who has been part of this community, and we’ll let them know.

Can’t give right now? You’re still part of this. Invite one person to a circle.