Plymouth Habitat for Humanity Week – Photo Gallery
It really does take a village (and a delicious-looking lasagna) to show up and better the world! These dedicated Plymouth Folks showed up and showed out with their contributions to this project.
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One More Chair (OMC) Summer Picnic – August 8
August 8 | 5 PM – 8 PM | Brookview Park | Pavillion #200
The committee will provide hot dogs, buns, condiments, tableware, and water. Attendees are asked to bring something to share (chips, salad, or dessert). If you want something other than water to drink, please bring it, although park rules prohibit alcohol. Table benches are plentiful, but some may want to bring a foldable chair for more comfort.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Come and bring a friend.
Please email Linda Satorius (linsatorius@gmail.com) with your RSVP by August 5. See you there!
2026 Annual Meeting | June 14 at 11 AM
Notice is hereby given that this summer’s Congregational Meeting of Plymouth Congregational Church of Minneapolis will be held on Sunday, June 14, 2026, at 11:15 AM in the Plymouth Sanctuary. To ensure that all who wish to attend can do so, the meeting will be streamed as well as held in person; however, because of technical limitations, voting is in-person only.
Agenda
Approve minutes from the January 11, 2026, Annual Budget Meeting.
Reports
Acting Lead/Intentional Interim Minister
Moderators
Leadership Council
Nominating Committee
Treasurer
Lead Minister Search
Roll Call
50-year members
Deceased members
Staff milestones
Action Items*
Election of Church Leaders
No other business can come before the meeting.
*While observers are welcome, only Plymouth Church members may vote on the Action Items, and voting is in-person only.
Materials for the 2026 Congregational Meeting are available at Plymouth.org. This year, materials will be available only electronically, and links to them are below.
Registration is Open! – Contemplation In Action: An Invitation to Wholeness
In this two-year program, participants ground the rhythms of their lives in contemplative awareness of God, the self, and others. By doing this together, we aim to root Plymouth’s congregational life in sacred awareness.
Christian contemplative practices provide a variety of pathways beyond creed and dogma to direct connection with the Mystery we call God. These practices fuel our actions with love, compassion, and justice. Administered by the Partnership for Contemplative Discipleship and funded by the Lilly Foundation through the University of St. Catherine, the Contemplation in Action cohorts nourish the seeds of practice in community and support the formation of mature Christian practitioners. Participants experience a deepened sense of awareness of and connection to the Holy in their lived experience. It is our hope that this program will inform the spirit of our congregation as we seek together to be the Body of Christ in the world.
A trained facilitator from the Partnership for Contemplative Discipleship will guide three groups through various contemplative prayer practices over nine months of the next two years. Participants are asked to commit to the entire two-year program and engage in these practices independently between sessions—ideally daily. The practices introduced in the first year invite participants to “go inward,” drawing closer to God. The second year deepens these individual practices and introduces collective practices for use in our congregation. Grounded in divine love, connected in practice, we are better able to serve others with clarity, freedom, agency, and compassion.
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Year 1
- Lectio Divina
- Deep Listening
- Prayer Journaling
- Examen
- Lovingkindness
- Centering Prayer
- Forgiveness
- Ignatian Contemplation/Imaginative Prayer *
- Labyrinth *
Year 2
- Jesus Prayer
- God in All Things
- Fears and Lamentations
- Attachments and Authenticity
- Hospitality
- Cultivating Discernment
- Vocation
- Communal Discernment
- Gratitude and Moving Forward
* A few practices in the first year can be chosen by participants.
About our facilitator
Susan Stabile is an experienced spiritual director and retreat director trained in the Ignatian tradition. She offers retreats and other programs of spiritual formation in parishes, retreat houses, and other venues around the country. Susan teaches at the Sacred Ground Center for Spirituality program for training spiritual directors and for training directors to lead the Spiritual Exercises. She previously served as Director of the Office of Spirituality at the University of St. Thomas, where she is a Professor Emerita, and co-directed a Lilly Grant secured by St. Catherine University to bring contemplative practices to congregations and parishes. She continues to serve as a contemplative practice leader for that grant. Susan is the author of numerous publications, including Growing in Love and Wisdom: Tibetan Buddhist Sources for Christian Meditation. (Oxford University Press 2013).
Cohort dates & times
Sundays: In person at Plymouth, 12:30-2:30 (maximum 20 participants)*
2026-27 2027-28
9/13 9/12
10/4 10/17
11/8 11/7
12/6 12/12
1/10 1/9
2/7 2/6
3/7 3/12
4/4 4/9
5/2 5/7
Register for the Sunday cohort here
Mondays: Online, 6:30-8:30 (maximum 12 participants)
2026-27 2027-28
9/14 9/13
10/5 10/11
11/9 11/8
12/7 12/13
1/11 1/10
2/8 2/7
3/8 3/13
4/5 4/10
5/3 5/8
Register for the Monday cohort here
Thursdays: In Person at Plymouth, 6:30-8:30 (maximum 20 participants)*
2026-27 2027-28
9/10 9/9
10/8 10/14
11/12 11/4
12/10 12/9
1/7 1/6
2/4 2/3
3/4 3/9
4/8 4/6
5/6 5/4
Register for the Thursday cohort here
* Need childcare? Let us know. Please email Kate Taber at katet@plymouth.org
You can learn more about the Partnership for Contemplative Discipleship here: https://sites.google.com/stkate.edu/contemplativediscipleship/home.
Register here for: stkate.edu/spiritualityinpractice for the event A Day For Contemplative Practice: Grounding our Service in God on Saturday, August 1st, 2026 at St. Kates
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Conn Gallery – The Passion of Art: Creating and Collecting – July 12 – Oct. 31, 2026
Conn Gallery Exhibition
July 12-October 31, 2026
The Passion of Art: Creating and Collecting
Artists Loretta Bebeau, Pam Mitman, and collector Gunda Luss. From universal abstraction to intriguing artifacts of African culture and the hyperrealism of everyday scenes, this exhibition offers a feast for the heart and mind.
Loretta Bebeau
Loretta is a full-time artist with a studio in the Northrup King building in NE Mpls. Her paintings feature a common word from languages collected through interviews, painted onto canvas, showing multiple cultures in our community. The common word means HEALTH, spoken differently but with the same meaning. We all want health.
Pam Mitman
Pam retired from the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota in 2009 and has been focusing on her artwork ever since. Her genre is hyperrealism, using mediums such as oil paint, pencil, watercolor, and markers. See her art at https://www.artforthemindandheart.com/
Gunda Luss
Gunda is a Collector of African artifacts and textiles. Her collection was acquired in 1975-1978 while she and her husband were teaching at a Teacher’s training College in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
2026 Board of Worship Survey Report
Your voice matters — and this year, the Plymouth community showed up in a big way. The Board of Worship is proud to share the results of this collective effort.
CLICK HERE to download and read the 2026 BOW Survey Report.
Please join the Board of Worship on Sunday, May 10, at 10 AM for a presentation in Conn Gallery.
BOW board members will share the results of the 2026 Board of Worship Survey and walk through what we found, explore how we gathered and interpreted your feedback, and open the floor for a conversation about the insights and perspectives our community contributed this year. This is your chance to see your input reflected, ask questions, and help shape what comes next.
Reparative action at Plymouth – the “and” of Mission and Margin
I found JT’s Easter message to be transformative. The message deepened my belief that our personal and corporate treasures belong to God, and that we are entrusted to steward them, wisely and justly. I wonder, where is there justice when our treasure is linked, directly or indirectly, to a history of slave labor and land, either stolen or obtained at a fraction of its value?
Earlier this year, in JT’s status briefing during this interim period, he used the work of Plymouth’s Racial Justice Initiative (RJI) to illustrate how the church experiences the “and” between “mission” and “margin.” The Board of Finance and Administration (BoFA), recently charged the new Taskforce on Reparative Action (TORA) to take RJI’s work forward. BoFA has chartered TORA to recommend reparative action for Plymouth. TORA, this summer and fall, will draft answers to the questions of why, what, when, how and who – leading to transformation for the whole congregation.
Balanced with this mission work is BoFA’s margin imperative, to ensure our financial security while justly redistributing our resources. It’s in this context that TORA represents the “and,” making recommendations to BoFA and ultimately the church.
TORA will use a phased approach, first submitting its report to BoFA by the end of November. Phase two will be months of discussion and prayerful discernment. Our expectation is for the congregation to decide on a long-term reparative action plan during 2027, as Plymouth celebrates its 170th anniversary. That will lead to phase three – executing our plan.
TORA will follow RJI’s lead in studying the history of reparations and learning about the actions of other congregations and justice-seeking organizations.
We hope you will join us in this “and” work. Please be in touch with any of the TORA members including Karen Barstad, Jon Bauer, Peter Eichten, Brittany Schou, Jeff Smith (Coordinator), Nick Williams, and Gayle Fuguitt (BoFA liaison). Any of them would be happy to speak with Plymouth members about their thoughts as we move forward. We’ll keep you informed about our progress.
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We look forward to having you join and walk alongside us as we initiate and develop this new task force and plan towards reparative actions at Plymouth.
Jeff Smith
TORA Member
PCC Habitat for Humanity Week is June 1 – June 5!
PCC Habitat for Humanity Build Week | Monday, June 1 – Friday, June 5
We will be doing new construction on a house being built at 2214 Russell Avenue N, Minneapolis. Construction of the home has just begun, so there will be plenty of work to do.
No building or construction experience is required, just a desire to provide a good house for a family. Please contact Jim Christenson or Brittany Schou at bmschou@gmail.com with any questions.
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!
We need 12 volunteer workers per day. If you are interested, registration is required to participate. Register here using the PCC proprietary link.
We also need lunch volunteers. Please contact Jim Christenson at christensonjim@msn.com.
2026 Summer Camp Registration is Open! Space is limited!
Mini Musical Camp
Ages: K – 2nd grade
Date: June 15 – June 18
Time: 9 AM to 3 PM
Fee: $45
REGISTER HERE
Broadway Babies
Ages: 3 yrs – 5 yrs
Date: June 16 – June 18
Time: 9 AM to 12 PM
Fee: $45
REGISTER HERE
Musical Spectacular Senior
Ages: 9th Grade and up
Date: July 20 – July 24
Time: 9:00 to 4:00
Fee: $100
REGISTER HERE
Musical Spectacular Junior
Ages: 3rd – 8th Grade
Date: July 27- July 31
Time: 9:00 to 34:00
Fee: $100
REGISTER HERE
Youth Performance Company Camps in the Conn Theatre
August 3-21 – Three weeklong sessions to choose from.
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION HERE
YPC Camp scholarships are available for Plymouth kids. List Plymouth Church Kid in the Special Considerations section. Valid only on camps held at PCC. APPLY FOR A SCHOLARSHIP HERE
Secure link: Share your photos from No Kings 3 + Palm Sunday
Upload your photos to the PCC private and secure Photobucket account here – https://photobucket.com/…/2bd2d1b6-98c9-40b1-8230…
If you, your family, or your friends have photos they would like to share of their participation, we will post them on internal PCC channels for everyone to see and enjoy!