On Friday, March 12, 2021, Gov. Tim Walz, citing progess on vaccinations in Minnesota, announced changed guidance from the Minnesota Department of Health relating to worship services and celebrations of life events. Here is a summary:
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Crossposted with permission from Healing Minnesota Stories Blog
"Seeking Justice, Caring for Community, Preparing for the Days Ahead" featured Black clergy from Minnesota and elsewhere offering advice to Minnesota churches on how to prepare for the Derek Chauvin trial. Watch Rev. Traci Blackmon (United Church of Christ), Rev. Dr.
(Crossposted with permission from Healing Minnesota Stories blog)
The following is shared from the Plymouth Center for Reconciliation...
(Crossposted with permission from the Healing Minnesota Stories blog)
In 2020 Healing Minnesota Stories adapted the Sacred Sites Tour into a documentary script. That script is available to view at the Minnesota Council of Churches offices during regular business hours. If you want to read the script please make an appointment by contacting Rev.
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We share this email in its entirety from the Faith Leaders distribution list of the Minnesota Department of Health:
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Hello Faith Leaders;
U.S. reparations efforts: Japanese internment camps during WW II and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
[Crossposted with permission from Scott Russell on Healing Minnesota Stories blog]
The Minnesota Council of Churches acknowledges that we are located on the ancestral homeland of the Dakota People. We are in close proximity to the territories of the Anishinabe and Ho-Chunk peoples. This land has been stewarded as a living relative by the Dakota for generations.
Two new communions have moved to manifest the unity of the body of Christ and build the common good in the world by joining the now-27 historic black, traditional peace, Orthodox, Pentacostal and Protestant judicatories that make up the Minnesota Council of Churches.
(cross-posted from Scott Russell at Healing Minnesota Stories blog)
The Coronavirus pandemic has created uncertainty and a new set of difficulties for living daily life for each and every person. We are so grateful that the Minnesota Department of Health and Refugee Programs Office have recognized how the pandemic has affected refugee and asylee communities.
Every two weeks the Minnesota Council of Churches convenes the judicatory leaders of member and non-member communions for education and conversation with staff from the Minnesota Department of Health.
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On Friday, March 12, 2021, Gov. Tim Walz, citing progess on vaccinations in Minnesota, announced changed guidance from the Minnesota Department of Health relating to worship services and celebrations of life events. Here is a summary:
Crossposted with permission from Healing Minnesota Stories Blog
"Seeking Justice, Caring for Community, Preparing for the Days Ahead" featured Black clergy from Minnesota and elsewhere offering advice to Minnesota churches on how to prepare for the Derek Chauvin trial. Watch Rev. Traci Blackmon (United Church of Christ), Rev. Dr.
(Crossposted with permission from Healing Minnesota Stories blog)
The following is shared from the Plymouth Center for Reconciliation...
(Crossposted with permission from the Healing Minnesota Stories blog)
In 2020 Healing Minnesota Stories adapted the Sacred Sites Tour into a documentary script. That script is available to view at the Minnesota Council of Churches offices during regular business hours. If you want to read the script please make an appointment by contacting Rev.
Click on a category heading to view the newsletter in your browser.
We share this email in its entirety from the Faith Leaders distribution list of the Minnesota Department of Health:
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Hello Faith Leaders;
U.S. reparations efforts: Japanese internment camps during WW II and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
[Crossposted with permission from Scott Russell on Healing Minnesota Stories blog]
The Minnesota Council of Churches acknowledges that we are located on the ancestral homeland of the Dakota People. We are in close proximity to the territories of the Anishinabe and Ho-Chunk peoples. This land has been stewarded as a living relative by the Dakota for generations.
Two new communions have moved to manifest the unity of the body of Christ and build the common good in the world by joining the now-27 historic black, traditional peace, Orthodox, Pentacostal and Protestant judicatories that make up the Minnesota Council of Churches.
(cross-posted from Scott Russell at Healing Minnesota Stories blog)
The Coronavirus pandemic has created uncertainty and a new set of difficulties for living daily life for each and every person. We are so grateful that the Minnesota Department of Health and Refugee Programs Office have recognized how the pandemic has affected refugee and asylee communities.
Every two weeks the Minnesota Council of Churches convenes the judicatory leaders of member and non-member communions for education and conversation with staff from the Minnesota Department of Health.