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An MCC Respectful Conversations Lead Facilitator received the Star Tribune's Bridge Builder 2024 award for building peace at a major Respectful Conversation in Saint Cloud.

Minnesota Council of Chuches will follow the mandates of Christ and the mission our 27 member denominations created us to accomplish. We will organize, advocate, partner and pray, manifesting the courage to stand together. You can help.

Minnesota Church Center closed January 21.

What were the most popular links in our 2024 newsletters according to MCC News for the Common Good readers?

MCC will be closed December 30, 2024 - January 3, 2025 for a week of reflection and preparation.

An urgent call to act by the National Council of Churches:

Ruling Elder Rev. Elona Street Steward, Synod Executive of the Synod of Lakes and Prairies and Vice President of the MCC Board of Directors, offered the second sermonic charge at the Installation service for MCC's new CEO Elder Suzanne P. Kelly. The Ruling Elder charged not only Elder Kelly but the whole church community to "boldly confront injustice."

[Editor's note: This guest blog from Rev. Melissa Melnick Gonzalez illustrates how local congregations are equipped in so many ways by the programs of Minnesota Council of Churches. Rev. Gonzalez' church plant, Tapestry, has directly or indirectly been supported by MCC Respectful Conversations, the grants promoted in the MCC newsletter, MCC Refugee Services staff connection, and the audiences who read News for the Common Good. The experience of Tapestry's ecumenical congregation presents a perfect microcosm of how Minnesota Council of Churches helps to manifest unity in the body of Christ and build the common good in the world.]

Elder Suzanne P. Kelly was installed as CEO of Minnesota Council of Churches in a service at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis on October 22, 2024.

Bishop Jeffrey L. Smith of Christ Temple Apostolic Church in Roseville, Elder Kelly's home church, offered the first sermonic charge.