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Come visit your friendly, progressive neighborhood church in Falcon Heights
Garden Community Church was formed via the merger of Falcon Heights Church, United Church of Christ and New Life Presbyterian Church (PCUSA). We are the only church in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
We’re centrally located in a quiet neighborhood just north of Larpenteur Avenue and between Snelling and Hamline avenues, convenient to Roseville, Lauderdale, the Como neighborhood of St. Paul and the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus.
You’ll find free parking in our lot on Garden Avenue and Holton Street, and on surrounding city streets. We’re also accessible by bike and within walking distance of Metro Transit bus lines. Our building is handicap-accessible.
Please note – the Post Office has changed our official address to 1440 Garden Avenue, but we are still in the same building and location as before when we had the address of 1795 Holton Street, back when that building was known as Falcon Heights Church.
Please use any of the methods below to get in touch with us:
Office hours:
Church: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Virtual: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Office closed Mondays and Fridays. On Mondays, Rev. Rick King is on-site.
Garden Community Church
1440 Garden Avenue
Falcon Heights, MN 55113
Phone: 651-386-1178
Our Staff
Rev. Rick King
Co-Pastor
partner & parent | pastor | spiritual director | activist | writer
I lead worship planning and coordinate with others to nurture a community of prayer, working with Riz as we tend people’s spiritual life through their ups and downs. Seeing people flourish gives me joy!
I love singing, hiking, cycling, camping, and doing a little urban farming with my partner, Linda, on our corner lot in Como Park with four chickens, bees, garden and fruit trees, and hanging out with our three adult children when they stop over to visit our three cats.
Rick can be reached at: [email protected]
Pastor Riz Prakasim
Co-Pastor
dreamer | bridge builder | entrepreneur | agitator | hope dealer
Come and see what is doing at Garden Community Church. There is a place for you at the table.
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
Riz can be reached at: [email protected]
Katie Chalmers-Garvey
Office Manager and Building Coordinator
I’ve been a steady presence behind the scenes, weaving order from complexity, tending to sacred spaces, turning logistics into hospitality, ecologically minded, rooted in reverence for the earth, and gentle mediator and fierce mother and advocate.
Katie can be reached at: [email protected]
Josh Neuenschwander
Director of Music
husband and parent | collaborator | educator | musician | intellectually curious
I lead the music program at Garden Community Church, drawing from my experiences working in churches across the Midwest and from my many years working in the field of music education. My hope is to create shared, comfortable spaces for people to join in fellowship with one another, to pray and share with friends, and to make music with one another, regardless of past experiences, for the purpose of sharing God’s light and love for all into our congregation and the world beyond our doors. I enjoy music of all kinds, but I especially like being able to celebrate new compositions by living composers. I love hiking and camping, flying single engine airplanes as a private pilot, playing the piano, trumpet, and organ, and riding roller coasters with my family.
Josh can be reached at [email protected].
Julie Harrington
Sunday Nursery Coordinator
Julie has lived in the Roseville/Falcon Heights area for most of her life. With a passion for children and babies, Julie worked in the child care arena for over 33 years! She has one son of her own who is now in his 20s. She has a creative mind, and is always thinking of great activities for little ones to be engaged with.