Social Justice at Plymouth
Plymouth’s justice work is organized around specific areas of commitment — each with active committees, community partnerships, and ongoing opportunities to get involved. This is not abstract. It is people doing real work in real places, week after week.
Board For Justice Action
At Plymouth, the call to do justice is not a program we run — it is part of who we are. The Board for Justice Action carries that call into the world, uniting the church's work for immigrant justice, racial justice, LGBTQ+ justice, housing justice, and climate justice in one shared effort.
Through these ministries, Plymouth accompanies immigrants and their families, confronts racism in our institutions and in ourselves, celebrates the diversity in our LGBTQ+ community, stands with neighbors facing housing instability, and advocates for the care of creation — understanding these not as separate causes but as one struggle for the dignity of people and the planet.
Immigrant Justice Committee
Plymouth's Immigrant Justice Committee accompanies and advocates for immigrants and asylum seekers — through partnership with organizations doing the work on the ground, through education within the congregation, and through the direct support of neighbors facing an uncertain welcome.
The committee awards the Judy Takkunen Immigrant Justice Grants to smaller organizations providing direct support to immigrants and asylum seekers, and works in partnership with organizations across the Twin Cities whose work it helps sustain.
There are many ways to join this work, and no experience is required — only a willingness to show up.
Board of Outreach
The Board of Outreach puts Plymouth's compassion to work where our neighbors' needs are most immediate: food and housing. We partner closely with organizations doing this work every day — Every Meal, which fights child hunger across the Twin Cities, and Groveland Food Shelf, our neighborhood food shelf — and we walk alongside those experiencing housing instability and homelessness. Each year, Plymouth is honored to host the Simpson Housing Homeless Memorial and March, gathering the community to remember neighbors who died without the dignity of home.
Twice a year, at Christmas and Easter, our special offerings direct the congregation's generosity toward food security and housing — and throughout the year, point-of-contact assistance is available through the church office for neighbors facing urgent need. Whether you can give, serve, or simply show up, the Board of Outreach has a place for you.
Reimagining Community Safety
What actually makes a community safe?
Reimagining Community Safety (RiCS) holds that question open in a city where it is anything but abstract. Born of Plymouth's racial justice work and housed under the Board for Justice Action, RiCS works for constitutional, non-discriminatory policing and for accountability that holds — engaging public officials, writing to the City Council and to the press, and hosting forums that bring city leaders, organizers, journalists, and neighbors to the same table.
Closer to home, RiCS works on the safety and well-being of our own neighborhood, seeking approaches rooted in relationship, prevention, and care for every person who calls this community home. At Plymouth, safety isn't only something we ask for — it's something we help build.
RiCS meets monthly, and newcomers are always welcome.
CTF 2.0
Plymouth's campus — a historic building at the heart of a living neighborhood — is more than the place we gather. It is one of our most powerful instruments for love and justice.
Campus Task Force 2.0 led the congregation in discerning how that instrument is meant to be played: What is God calling Plymouth to be in this building, in this neighborhood, at this moment in time? Through congregational conversations open to all, the task force gathered the community's wisdom toward a bold, shared, actionable vision for our campus—a place where worship, the arts, community partners, recovery communities, and our neighbors all find room. The task force completed its work and delivered its report to the congregation. The future of this building belongs to all of us.