Minnesota FoodShare, a program of the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches, has named United Church their Outstanding Congregation for the March Minnesota FoodShare Drive for hosting our second annual Music to Feed the Soul Concert for Hunger Relief this past March. At that concert, in which people from all over the community and many congregations participated, the community raised over $1600 for our local food shelf.
Jerri Swardstrom, Nancy Christensen, and the Missions and Social Concerns committee deserve many thanks for organizing this event.
We were nominated for this honor by Jan Larson of the Two Harbors Food Shelf.
United Church has a tradition of being very active in issues of hunger relief. This past fall we had our umpteenth annual Dinner and Auction for Hunger Relief where we raised $2700 for local, regional, and world hunger relief. Our youth group also volunteers at our regional food bank, as you can see here.