You're invited to grow your faith through mission and outreach! Growing support through local, national, and international efforts.
Youth and adults from St. Paul’s UCC support Feed My Starving Children, a non-profit Christian organization which packs meals formulated especially for starving children around the world and when disaster relief is needed. Volunteers help several times of year and our number of volunteers for this ministry is growing.
 Crop Walk
This program also addresses hunger and offers its compassionate work through the Minnesota Council of Churches and the Church World Service.
(This photo shows our intergenerational commitment to support this ministry.)
Each summer, as a member of a local group of churches organized as the Interfaith Builders, St. Paul’s UCC participates in a “build” to help meet housing needs for residents of our city. We fundraise, build and cook for volunteers as a way of supporting this outstanding mission program. H4H makes a significant difference for every family that benefits from this affordable housing mission program. This summer, our work dates were July 26 – August 6 on a new construction located at 1044 Bush Ave. in St. Paul for the Bantari family from Congo. They will be buying this home for their family of 11.
Guided by Christ’s example, the Saint Paul Area Council of Churches (SPACC) builds a more just and compassionate society. We connect congregations, faith communities and civic organizations to overcome poverty, promote peace and dismantle racism and other barriers that divide our community. St. Paul’s UCC generously support many mission program through SPACC and you may learn more about this great organization at www.spacc.org
Our congregation extends its ministry through our national setting of the United Church of Christ by contributing financially to Our Church's Wider Mission (OCWM). We also support all five special offerings to include: Neighbors in Need, One Great Hour of Sharing, Strengthen the Church, Just Peace, and the Christmas Fund.Through our OCWM commitment, we make a difference nationally and internationally. Learn more about our wider church by visiting www.ucc.org
Wolf Ridge Mission Trip
 From August 1st to August 4th, 17 people from St. Paul’s UCC and Hazel Park UCC enjoyed a wonderful mission trip to Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, a nationally respected residential environmental learning center located on 2,000 acres of the North Shore overlooking Lake Superior (http://www.wolf-ridge.org). During this time we were immersed in nature exploration, cultural history, outdoor skills, team-building, and personal growth.
Our Wolf Ridge Naturalist, Ali Schaefer guided us through this wonderful outdoor learning experience. Ali is completing her Master’s in Environmental Education at the University of Minnesota in Duluth. At Wolf Ridge we stayed in comfortable dorm rooms and ate our meals in a large dining hall. Our days were filled with educational experiences and outdoor challenges. We observed wildlife and went on long and short hikes. We paddled a canoe so big that it held all of us! We felt like the Voyageurs, who, we learned, guided similar canoes through northern Minnesota in the late 1700s. We performed a scientific lake study (Wolf Lake is in good environmental shape), learned about the raptors that make their home at Wolf Ridge, and gained knowledge of how the lumberjacks lived in the area during the early 1900s. We experienced how the Ojibwa Indians lived and traveled throughout the north at a recreated Ojibwa camp site.
 On Tuesday, we participated in one of the most exciting events of our trip, the high ropes adventure course. We had to traverse six courses separated by towers that were over 30 feet off the ground (we were attached to safety harnesses). This event required balance, strength, cooperation, and, at the end, a wonderful 100-foot slide down to the ground! Following evening classes on Monday and Tuesday evening, we sang around a campfire and enjoyed that traditional campfire treat; S’mores. The whole experience was one we will remember all our lives; the intergenerational interaction, meeting members of another UCC church, relying on each other as we met the outdoor adventure challenges, the history and environmental learning...all were invaluable experiences that have deepened our faith in each other, our church, and God.
The 14 Participants from St. Paul’s United Church of Christ were Pastor Norma Rae Hunt & Garth Schumacher, Jackie Carroll, Bob & Becky Galkiewicz, Gail Westby and her four granddaughters, Elizabeth, Ellie, Rachel and Lauren, Steve & Jan Zitnick and their son, David, and grandson, Max. From Hazel Park UCC, participants were Pastor Sara Morse, Betty Oehme, and Calvin Kettering.
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