Wellness Week: MCC Closed Dec 30 - Jan 3
Minnesota Council of Churches will be closed for a wellness week from December 30 – January 3. In 2025 we anticipate unknown policy shifts that will impact the communities we serve and MCC staff ourselves. Yet we are still committed to building the common good in the world. We will remain focused on people with refugee status. We will continue to foster racial justice in our state. We will keep bringing peace and training peacemakers to depolarize our conflicts and when faced with divisions we will keep building bridges of interfaith relationships.
To best do this work we have named December 30 – January 3 a week of wellness and rest. A week of reflection and preparation. A week where we can look over the past 12 months of incredible growth and success MCC has experienced as an organization and see that it was good. A week where we can look forward to the next 12 months to imagine and plan what more good there will be.
As womanist theologian Tricia Hersey writes in “Rest is Resistance,” “Our collective rest will save us” because it liberates us from a grind culture that views people as machines, not beings made in the image of God. Rest fights the systemic oppression that expects relentless toil for diminishing return. Rest resists the worldly forces who would continue patterns of historic exploitation. Rest liberates our bodies for healing and our spirits for dreams.
Dreaming of a better future during this week of wellness and rest will help all of the communities present in Minnesota Council of Churches’ extended family to build the common good together in 2025.
Sincerely,
Elder Suzanne P. Kelly
CEO, Minnesota Council of Churches