The Adult Faith Formation Committee is gathering ideas for next year’s midweek programming and would love your input. Please complete a yellow congregational survey, available with the Sunday bulletin or in the narthex.

On June 28, 1969, a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, sparked a historic uprising that would become a turning point in LGBTQ+ history.

This week we are highlighting one of our mission partners, Settled, an organization that believes God has an answer to homelessness: "He places the lonely in families" (Psalm 68:6). Settled exists to help churches invite their neighbors off the streets and into full community through intentional tiny home villages called Sacred Settlements.

For generations, LGBTQ+ people have existed in every culture, society, and faith tradition around the world. Long before widespread visibility or legal protections, individuals and communities quietly built networks of support, resilience, and advocacy.

Our new “Shout Outs” box has arrived! You’ll find it on the wall by the office. Throughout the week, we invite you to share your celebrations, ideas, hopes, and opportunities with us.

Happy PRIDE Month! How you spend your money has a huge, visible impact on your local community.

ILCM is a nonprofit organization that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and North Dakota.

While we welcome the first signs of Spring, it’s important to note that our pollinators are still wintering in the compost on our flower beds at church and at home.

St. Paul’s UCC has joined an interfaith partnership of congregations on or near Summit Avenue to host the Eco Fair on Summit for another year! With a mission of uniting in our shared responsibility to honor, protect, and heal the Earth, our coalition seeks to inspire and empower community members to take actions that create a more just, resilient, and sustainable world.

Your donation helps with the cost of purchasing flowers. Money raised beyond the cost of flowers will go to the pastor’s discretionary fund. Listing you and your loved one(s) in the bulletin is very important to us. Please fill out the flower form online at https://bit.ly/4b27pse.

St. Paul’s UCC will serve as a CSA (community supported agriculture) drop-site again this year. As with last year, we will be a drop-site for the Hmong American Farm Association (HAFA) CSA. You can learn more about them and sign up at https://www.hmongfarmers.com/csa. Don’t delay: the official deadline for the spring season is May 1, with first pick-up May 13.

About one-third of climate solutions can be implemented at the household level, and a simple, high-impact action is composting food waste. At our church, please use the green compost bins for all food scraps and compostable dishes only—this helps reduce landfill methane, improve soil, and keeps our church in compliance.

The Sanctuary Choir is seeking tenor voices for Holy Week and Easter! We’ve been grateful for growing choir participation this year, but our tenor section is still a bit underrepresented. Adding a few more tenors would help us sing in full, balanced four-part harmony during this meaningful season. If you sing in the tenor range and would enjoy sharing your voice during Lent and Easter, we would love to welcome you!

This March, St. Paul’s UCC and St. Paul’s Childhood Center are once again partnering to collect food and funds for the Department of Indian Work Emergency Food Shelf at Interfaith Action. This food drive is part of the MN FoodShare March Campaign, which brings together organizations, businesses, faith communities, and individuals to help stock and support the capacity of nearly 300 food shelves.

St. Paul’s UCC is alive with meaningful ministry and important stories to tell. As your communications staff, my goal is to keep our congregation informed in a way that’s clear, timely, and not overwhelming - so the right information is at your fingertips.

Let’s be honest, we often take God’s name and life in vain. But in difficult times, we need God and one another to hope.

This Lenten Season we’ll journey with Jesus as he healed, prayed, and hoped, even on the way to the cross. With spiritual fortitude, and mutual forbearance, we too can pray, heal, and hope ourselves toward new life and Easter Resurrection.

February is Black History Month, and SPUCC is proud to honor the many important contributions of African-Americans to our musical tradition.