Additional volunteers are needed for the funeral of JoAnn Erickson on Thursday, June 25. Please consider serving a two-hour shift assisting with ushering, hospitality, or cleanup.

This summer, Sunday School will move outdoors as children explore God’s call to care for creation through hands-on nature activities.

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.

We want to be part of something larger, a community that defines faith broadly, that welcomes God’s presence in sacred moments and everyday acts of kindness, that cares for one another, and will care for us when we need that most. These are among the many reasons we offer our pledge with glad hearts as part of the Stewardship Campaign.

Thank you for taking time during Friendship Hour this past Sunday to respond to a short survey about your willingness to contribute to make friendship Hour a welcoming time for all. There were 26 responses.

I am excited to share my stewardship story with you. In fact, I am rather overwhelmed at this moment to be asked to do so, for up to a year ago, I had not found a church community where I felt a connection and authentic sense of being welcomed into the community. Last March, when snow was on the ground, I woke up and was craving understanding, peace, and connection in this complicated world, and was seeking a place where I could explore my faith and the questions and certainties that accompanied it.