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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.

 

 

Two invitations to connect with the farm ministry. The 2026 season is underway – come grow with us!

Two invitations to connect with the farm ministry in the coming weeks. The 2026 season is underway – come grow with us! Live far from the farm? Forward this to a Minnesota friend…

Invitation #1

Come learn the spiritual art of pruning 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Saturday, March 21, at Good Courage Farm

The weather will be unusually warm this weekend! (Ugh, climate change…) Since it’s too early to clean up your own yard (think of the pollinators!) or start your own pot of tomatoes (last frost is end of May, remember!), come enjoy the 70 degrees here at Good Courage!

Every Saturday, our agrarian ministry hosts “faith farmation” gatherings. We invite you to roll up your sleeves, don muck boots, and join a community of kindred spirits in tending soil, trees, and spirit together.

March is pruning season. On the 21st, we’ll be tending to the fruit trees and grapevines. No experience is needed—just a willingness to learn and lend a hand. We weave learning and prayer into our work, singing and laboring side by side for a few hours in the morning and afternoon. We share good conversation, sung prayer, and a noonday meal along the way.

The good food we harvest is shared with neighbors experiencing food insecurity. Come this once or come often through the seasons ahead.. Discover how caring for the land can deepen your faith and root you more firmly in hope.

RSVP for March 21 Farm Stewards!

Invitation #2

Come Bless the Fields Saturday, April 25, as we celebrate Rogation at Good Courage Farm

Each year on April 25, our Anglican tradition marks the feast known as Major Rogation. This is a time set aside by the Church to pray over field, seed, and laborer, asking for God’s blessing on the growing season ahead. Come join us at Good Courage on Saturday, 4/25, from 10:00 a.m. until noon. We’ll make a procession around the farm, singing and praying over orchards, vineyards, animals, and people. Bring seeds from home, and we’ll ask God’s blessing on them and on your own garden. The 45-minute procession is followed by tea and cake in the barnyard, plus opportunities to learn about the farm, its creatures, and its ministry.

Golf carts will join the procession to offer transportation to those with mobility needs. Children are welcome and will be given liturgical roles! RSVPs are encouraged at the link below. Please carpool if you’re coming from a distance to minimize fossil fuel use.

We look forward to welcoming you to the farm! RSVP here to Bless the Fields.

Our Esther Moment By John Humphrey. Join the No Kings 3 Rally on 3/28!

In JT’s sermon on March 15, he reflected on the moment Esther recognized her calling — and invited each of us to consider our own “Esther moments.” Over the past two months, I’ve heard from dozens of you asking the same question: “What can I do?”Here are two things — and when I say you, I mean nearly all of us who are physically and mentally able to.

The most powerful thing we can do right now is show up. Our collective presence speaks volumes. Imagine if tens of thousands across Minnesota — and millions nationwide — stood together. That kind of strength is hard to ignore. Please join the No Kings 3 Rally on Saturday, March 28, at locations across the Twin Cities. Click here for details.

If you are unable to attend an event with 30k-100K people in one place (like St Paul) for No Kings tomorrow, here’s a link to sign up for smaller neighborhood gatherings. CLICK HERE for a link to gatherings that No Kings knows about in St Louis Park, Richfield, Bloomington, Plymouth, Burnsville, Eagan, and several more.

How to Help

Support Our Neighbors, Neighborhood, and Community

Click here for a spreadsheet of ICE Out Events, peaceful protests, and volunteer opportunities in Minnesota.

100 Hands Backpack Packing Project

We’ll fill backpacks with basic personal care items to provide to deportees upon departure from MSP Airport. This project seeks to provide some essential items and a sense of humanity to people being deported. It’s sponsored by the Immigrant Justice Committee and Conversations with Friends. To volunteer for this one-time, one-hour activity, contact Barbara Read barbararead2@icoud.com.

Donate to the Plymouth Benevolence Fund

Donate to the Plymouth Benevolence Fund to help with housing and food insecurity, gas and transportation, and basic needs. Please select “Benevolence Fund” from the dropdown menu to ensure proper fund allocation.

Stevens Square Small Business Grants to help those impacted by ICE

Stevens Square Community Organization has launched a Business Support Fund to raise money to provide grants to small businesses impacted by ICE in Stevens Square-Loring Heights! Donate today to help our neighborhood organization provide much-needed relief to small businesses that have experienced a significant drop in sales and foot traffic.

Help us support our local small businesses! Donations can be made on our website at www.stevenssquare.org.

Stevens Square Neighbor-run Rent Relief GoFundMe

Individuals in the Stevens Square-Loring Heights community have started a GoFundMe to support neighbors impacted by ICE in need of rent assistance. For any questions about this fund, please email the organizers at sqlhrentrelieffund@proton.me.

To support, go to Click Here, and share widely!

Black Youth Irreducible Grace Foundation

The Black Youth Irreducible Grace Foundation Black Youth Healing Arts Center in St. Paul is creating calming kits for children affected by ICE that include art supplies, soft pillows, and breathing tools. Donate here, then select calming kits or the fund you wish to contribute to from the menu.

Support Local Organizations, Businesses, and Restaurants

Here is a vetted list from the City of Minneapolis of organizations that offer donation and safety tips.

Meet Minneapolis has started the MPLS for MPLS campaign. Small, everyday choices help keep Minneapolis neighborhoods strong, welcoming, and connected. Visit their website to find ways to support our neighborhoods.

Show up for Eat Street and donate to local businesses through the Whittier Alliance to help support Whittier neighborhood businesses that need help during this time.

Find a comprehensive list below of ways you can help address community needs, housing, food, supplies, and business closures due to ICE enforcement activities. Click here for ways you can help locally

Lend your voice to the ACLU’s various causes, campaigns, and opportunities. Click here for a comprehensive listing and links

Sign up for Newsletters from Local Organizations

Immigrant Defense Network

Individuals, groups, and organizations that believe in the Immigrant Defense Network’s values and are committed to protecting, defending, and upholding the rights and freedoms of immigrant communities are welcome to join the network. We ask for active participation and meaningful contribution in IDN’s general meetings and our collective work across the state. Please send your full name, location, and affiliation to info@immigrantdefensenetwork.org.

COPAL

COPAL, Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina, is a member-based organization established in 2018 to improve the quality of life of Latine families. Over the past eight years, COPAL has evolved to become a well-known, grassroots power-building, and visionary transnational organization.
Sign up to receive the COPAL newsletter 

Find a Mutual Aid Group in MN that Needs Help and Donations

Organizations across the state are seeking assistance to meet the sudden influx of people in need. While hundreds of thousands protest and strike, others are working behind the scenes to make sure their neighbors have food, shelter, and more. Click here for a list of organizations.

Write to National, State, and City politicians, representatives, and lawmakers.

To stop Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, urgent communication to Congress is required, highlighting reports of excessive force, unlawful arrests, and fatal shootings by federal agents in the city. Targeted letters should demand that representatives investigate these actions, halt funding for such operations, and protect immigrant communities.

Key Action Steps:

Key Talking Points for Congress:

  • Cite reports of widespread racial profiling and unlawful detention of U.S. citizens.
  • Mention the use of excessive force, including incidents involving pepper spray on bystanders.
  • Highlight the killing of individuals by federal agents in the Eat Street neighborhood, which has prompted widespread protests and calls to end the operation.
  • Demand accountability for the reported ICE agents deployed, calling it an unnecessary expenditure and a safety risk.
  • Support Local Advocacy: Urge Congress to partner with organizations like the ACLU of Minnesota to end these operations.
  • You can use the National Immigration Law Center’s action page to send messages to your representatives

Write to Congress to End the Detention of Families

These families are then sent to the only family immigration detention facility in the country, the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, TX, where conditions are shocking. People with chronic health conditions or medical emergencies are being denied the care they need, infants are experiencing alarming weight loss, and families are denied access to adequate, clean drinking water, forced in many cases to drink tap water at the facility that is foul-smelling and known to cause upset stomachs.

Alarmingly, many families are held in these prison-like conditions without due process for weeks on end, and many families are separated from each other while they are detained. Most likely, they will spend the holidays in these conditions. Click here for guidelines and scripts from Amnesty International.

Free “Know Your Rights” Red Cards

All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s red cards give examples of how people can exercise these rights. However, they do not provide individualized legal advice. Click here to order, download a printable file, or donate to the Red Card project from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

Little Free Pantry

Thank you! Thanks to your support, the Little Free Pantry is currently well stocked. This week (1/26), we’re pausing the LFP wishlist.

Groveland Food Shelf

Farm Steward Saturdays at Good Courage Farm – March through October 2026

Farm Steward Saturdays at Good Courage in Hutchinson, MN | March through October 2026

Come meet God in Creation this year! As the ground begins to soften and the light stretches longer across the Minnesota prairie, Good Courage Farm invites you to join us for our upcoming Farm Stewards Saturdays.

Faith Farmation (March–October) invites you to roll up your sleeves and tend soil, trees, and spirit alongside a community of kindred spirits. From pruning and planting to harvesting fruit for a local food pantry, our seasonal work supports neighbors experiencing food insecurity. No experience needed—just a willingness to learn and help. We weave prayer, song, conversation, Holy Eucharist, and a shared meal into our day. Come once or come often, with friends or on your own, and discover how caring for the land can deepen your faith and root you in hope. Learn more by clicking here!

Align Mpls, Homeless Day On The Hill

March 11 from 8:30 AM – 3 PM

Join fellow Align congregation members and friends to watch the pre-recorded program together, then ride together (in a comfortable coach bus) to the Capitol for lawmaker visits.

Click here for more information and registration.

Volunteer Night at Family Tree Clinic

Third Wednesday of every month, 5–7 pm, Family Tree Clinic

Family Tree Clinic is now leading monthly volunteer nights! These gatherings take place on the third Wednesday of every month, 5–7 pm, at the clinic. Volunteers will help stock safer sex kits and community resources. Come for any part of the evening—no registration required. Light refreshments and good vibes provided, and feel free to invite others who may be interested.

Stevens Square Small Business Grants + Rent Relief

Stevens Square Small Business Grants

Stevens Square Community Organization has launched a Business Support Fund to raise money to provide grants to small businesses impacted by ICE in Stevens Square-Loring Heights! Donate today to help our neighborhood organization provide much-needed relief to small businesses that have experienced a significant drop in sales and foot traffic.

Help us support our local small businesses! Donations can be made on our website.

 

Stevens Square Neighbor-run Rent Relief GoFundMe

Individuals in the Stevens Square-Loring Heights community have started a GoFundMe to support neighbors impacted by ICE in need of rent assistance. To support, Click Here, and share widely!

For any questions about this fund, please email the organizers at sqlhrentrelieffund@proton.me.

Family Tree Clinic Volunteer Nights (ongoing)

Family Tree Clinic is now leading monthly volunteer nights! These gatherings take place on the third Wednesday of every month, 5–7 pm, at the clinic. The next volunteer night is Wednesday, January 21.

Volunteers will help stock safer sex kits and community resources. Come for any part of the evening—no registration required. Light refreshments and good vibes provided, and feel free to invite others who may be interested.

Family Tree Clinic is accessible by the #2 and #18 bus lines, with bike racks onsite and nearby parking, including accessible spaces. Masks are required and provided. Entry is via a staffed welcome desk—ring the bell to be let in. Indoor and outdoor spaces are available for distancing and mask breaks.

 

Supporting our Immigrant Neighbors and Communities – Ways You Can Help!

As you’ve probably seen in the local news, there are many ICE activities in our area. Several times per week, Plymouth’s Immigrant Justice Committee receives requests from schools and places of worship that want “safety patrols/escorts.” We also receive notices about protests, food delivery services, and other activities that support our immigrant brothers and sisters. We will be glad to share this information with you if you are interested in participating.

Please get in touch with Nancy Siska at npsiska@gmail.com to join our mailing list.