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Good to Know
- Choose what to donate to from the drop-down menu. If you want to contribute to something that isn’t listed, choose “other” and let us know in the comments on the second screen.
- Consider giving by ACH (bank transfer) rather than credit card to minimize fees.
- If you’re giving toward a pledge, please let us know in the comments on the second screen.
What Your Giving Supports
General Operations
The general operations account supports the whole of First Church’s vibrant worship, community life and ministries. Contributing to general operations ensures that your gift can be used where it’s most needed.
Reparations
We are committed to the ongoing work of making reparations for colonization and racial injustice. Our 2025 reparations funds supported five organizations:
- Anishinabe Academy—a community school engaging students through an American Indian, Indigenous lens, with a Native-centered curriculum, and through Ojibwe and Dakota language
- Makoce Ikicupi (Land Recovery)—seeking to bring Dakota relatives home, re-establish Dakota spiritual and physical relationship with our homeland, and ensure the ongoing existence of Dakota People
- All Nations Indian Church—a UCC church serving the American Indian community through worship, community service, and cultural preservation
- Minnesota Freedom Fund—working to end wealth-based detention and power build with community to dismantle the systems that turn poverty into punishment while expanding access to freedom, safety, and dignity for all Minnesotans
- Clark-Grace UCC—an intentionally multicultural church in St. Paul whose predecessor congregations include the first African-American United Church of Christ congregation in Minnesota
Monthly Special Offerings
Monthly special offerings are dedicated to various needs in our local and wider community.
July: ISAIAH
ISAIAH is a a statewide multiracial group of faith communities, Black barbershops, childcare centers, and more fighting for racial and economic justice in Minnesota. Their goal is to create a Minnesota that is inclusive and just for every
person. They operate as a “house with many rooms,” bringing leaders from different areas together not just because it sounds virtuous, but because they believe we’re stronger together.
August: Every Meal
Every Meal helps bridge the gap between weekday meals at school food insecurity at home on the weekends by discreetly providing culturally appropriate groceries to elementary school students dealing with weekend hunger. In their 15+ years of operation they’ve gone from seeking to meet a need at a single school in northeast Minneapolis to serving 12,000 kids throughout Minnesota.
In addition to our special offering, which supports the work that Every Meal is doing statewide, First Church works directly with nearby Marcy Arts Elementary School to pack and deliver groceries.