In a time when refugees are being reviled and threatened daily for political gain, MPUC will be lighting a candle against that kind of gloom by cosponsoring a newly arriving refugee family, via our Mission & Social Justice Committee, plus volunteers.

Minnesota Council of Churches is the lead co-sponsor in this project.  They’ve given us a detailed Refugee Co-Sponsorship Guide. Members of their expert staff do the “heavy lifting” parts as we partner with them. We are adjunct to them throughout a 4-month period.

We welcomed Chantal, Semucyo, Eric, Yves, Nadine, Kevin, and Denise on June 22, 2016!

Team Leaders

The team leaders of the Macalester Plymouth Refugee Co-Sponsorship project met on Sunday June 12. Here are some of them. From the left: Don Christensen (project co-chair), Kathy Kerr (project co-chair), Melody Ward (Minnesota Council of Churches), and Rev. Adam Blons of MPUC.

Updates from our Volunteers

A View from Here

• October 18, 2020

Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church October 15, 2020 Rev. Adam Blons Are you getting a lot more emails these days? I couldn’t easily find statistics, but I would say my email volume has at least doubled on a daily basis during the pandemic. Along with managing the increase, each communication feels more important…

A View from Here

• September 14, 2020

Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church September 14, 2020 Rev. Adam Blons Bill Gates, whose foundation focuses on global health issues, started an August 5, 2020 Gates Post blog entry this way: “A global crisis has shocked the world. It is causing a tragic number of deaths, making people afraid to leave home, and leading to economic hardship not seen in…

A View from Here

• September 6, 2020

Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church September 3, 2020 Rev. Corinne Freedman Ellis I follow self-described “clinically depressed motivational speaker” Glennon Doyle on social media, and if you’re a social media person, I’d highly recommend doing the same. She names what so many of us are feeling but perhaps aren’t brave enough…

A View from Here

• September 3, 2020

Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church August 27, 2020 Rev. Adam Blons The Sufi poet Rumi said: “The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.” Air is life, and yet the air is currently at the crossroads…

A View from Here

• September 1, 2020

Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church July 2, 2020 Rev. Adam Blons During one of my first church interviews, I learned about a partnership between a white suburban congregation and an urban African American congregation. The partnership started with a shared Bible study in people’s homes. From there it grew to pulpit exchanges, choir…