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Wednesday, 23 November 2011 19:30 Joyous, and delicious,Turkey Dinner at our Lake Street Center! On Sunday evening, Nov. 20th,  we opened our center to the community, and together we shared in an outreach of love and table fellowship. It was a More...

Friday, 13 May 2011 21:32 Let's Do Lunch! No, Let's Feed the Hungry! A wonderful opportunity is being presented to the Orthodoxfaithful of Minnesota to offer their support and encouragementto the work of FOCUS More...

Friday, 13 May 2011 20:43 Second Helping Food Shelf NOW OPEN! We are happy to announce that starting Thursday May 12, 2011 we will begin serving our community with a food shelf operating out of the FOCUS More...

Friday, 10 December 2010 00:46 The Good Work of FOCUS Minnesota Fr. Peter Prebel interviews Matushka Vera Proctor, Director of FOCUS Minnesota, during a Focus North America Radio Broadcast. The podcast is titled More...

What is FOCUS Minnesota?

What is FOCUS Minnesota?

FOCUS Minnesota is an acronym for Fellowship of Orthodox Christians United to Serve. FOCUS Minnesota is a local chapter of FOCUS North America, a non-profit 501c3 domestic charitable provider organization headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas. FOCUS North America is the only national Pan-Orthodox Christian agency working operationally on pervasive and persistent issues of poverty in our communities in conjunction with the Orthodox Church in North America.  FOCUS Minnesota is an outreach of the Orthodox Christian churches in the greater Twin Cities area.

Inspired by the Orthodox Christian tradition of championing the needs of the poor and oppressed, FOCUS Minnesota’s mission is to the under-served poor, the homeless, and the working poor, providing them with Food, Occupation, Clothing, Understanding and Shelter (FOCUS). The outreach programs of FOCUS Minnesota will enable the local Orthodox community, and its partners through FOCUS, to meet the pressing demands of the poor and needy and to initiate and/or augment charitable and humanitarian operations in the Twin Cities. We serve in cooperation and partnership with other social service agencies both faith-based and secular.

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