Give $120 (or set up or continue your $10/month gift) toward 1000 Sisters while at the Garden Coffee, and you will receive the custom charm for your 1000 Sisters bracelet! If you are unable to pick up your charm at the Garden Coffee but are already a recurring giver or begin a recurring gift by July 31, 2024, we will mail your gift to you. Add a new charm each year that you participate!
Ways to Give:
→ ONLINE HERE (Give $120 one time, or set up a recurring gift of $10/month to become a 1000 Sister)
- Reference set up instructions
- Mail a check to BTG: 1315 Portland Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN 55404
Thank you for your support of 1000 Sisters!
Garden Coffee
The Garden Coffee is an event for Minnesota women and girls to worship, network, and hear from one (or more) of our own Minnesota missionaries. This event is also our annual fundraiser for 1000 Sisters.
→ July 7, 2025 at 10:30 am
→ Lake Geneva Christian Center, West Campus
Featured Guests: To Be Announced
Free event for women and girls of all ages; no RSVP required
Life Warehouse
The Life Warehouse offers brand new household products to MN Assemblies of God credentialed ministers.
Make your annual appointment to shop!
- Credentialed ministers are eligible for ONE annual shopping appointment per family for personal household use only.
- Returning-itinerating MN missionaries are welcome to go through as often as needed, however.
- Email adahlke@mnaog.org to let BTG know when you would like to go through the warehouse (we’re open 365 days/year). If you have a special need or request during the year, please feel free to contact us.
- The Life Warehouse is connected to The Bridge Shop at Lake Geneva Christian Center: 605 Birch Ave., Alexandria, MN 56308.
How to Help
Donate:
- Churches and individuals may give toward the purchasing of products by donating online or by mailing a check to BTG – Life Warehouse: 1315 Portland Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404.
Volunteer:
- Volunteer in the Warehouse: Help us organize and display donated store items. Individuals or groups of up-to six people can volunteer.
- Become a Volunteer Driver: Pick up and drop off items at the Life Warehouse on a routine basis.
- Email adahlke@mnaog.org with interest in volunteering!
Donate New Products:
(The following items are often of greatest need.)
- Towels
- Twin & Queen bedding
- Mixers, Toasters, Blenders, and All Appliances
- Vacuums
- New, Fast Cooking-6qt Roasting Ovens (Made by Nesco)
- New Stock Size Pots
- New Sauce Pans
Olivia & Ava Puccini - Missionaries to Eurasia Northwest
Olivia Puccini as served as a missionary for twenty years in the former Soviet Union—in the nations of Armenia and Estonia. While she has worn many hats while overseas—overseeing a Bible College, planting a church alongside her husband, area director over seven countries—she is most passionate about honestly sharing her personal struggles to help people become whole and walk into whom God created them to be. Olivia is an ordained pastor, worship leader, writer, lover of chai tea lattes, wife of Nick, mother to Oliver, Ava, and a Spanish Water dog named Rue.
Ava Puccini, age 13, has spent her entire life overseas as a missionary kid. She loves playing hockey and soccer, being a part of theater productions, a bowl of good borsch soup, and watching episodes of real life emergency situations in the ER.
Keaton Goetz - Worship Leader
Keaton is a senior at North Central University where he is pursuing his degree as a Worship Leader. He spent a year on a Worship Live team and co-wrote several songs on their album. Keaton enjoys working on his grandpa’s farm, is a cheeseburger connoisseur, and is an avid Green Bay Packers fan.