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

• January 13, 2021

Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church January 13, 2021 Rev. Corinne Freedman Ellis Wednesday, January 6, is known as Epiphany in the Christian tradition. It is the day when we remember that the Magi visited Jesus, who by this point was probably walking and talking, and recognized his humanity and his divinity,…

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• December 21, 2020

Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church December 21, 2020 Rev. Adam Blons I don’t think I’ve ever cried at a congregational meeting before. But suddenly seeing the faces of over 100 church members on my computer screen at our recent congregational meeting brought me to tears. It was incredible to watch as…

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• November 8, 2020

Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church November 5, 2020 Rev. Corinne Freedman Ellis Dispatches from Thursday morning: waiting is hard. Waiting is hard even when we know to expect it. Every Advent we await the birth of Jesus. Every Holy Saturday we sit in the dark and anticipate the joy of Easter…

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• October 30, 2020

Exploring Faith and Community • Macalester Plymouth United Church October 30, 2020 Rev. Corinne Freedman Ellis I’m excited to report that I’ve been receiving group coaching around balancing productivity, community care, and self-care in the middle of a pandemic. We are in the very beginning stages of our work together so I’m certain I’ll have…

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• 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…