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Northfield, MN 55057
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First UCC Hires Jeff Barton as Interim Minister

First UCC is happy to announce it has finalized an agreement with the Reverend Jeff Barton to be the interim minister.  He will be with the church for at least one year, starting August 22.   Jeff is committed to helping the church create a vision for the future and to restructure the church and programs accordingly.  

Jeff Barton [...]

First UCC Hires New Director of Children’s Music

We welcome Shana Hodel as our new Director of Children’s Music. A member of First UCC and a teacher at Northfield’s Montessori Children’s House, Shana brings us a wealth of experience in leading children and in teaching and playing music. She has been involved with the church’s musical life for a good decade, and she looks [...]

Seminary Profiles Ruth MacKenzie

The Annual Report from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities has a wonderful profile of Ruth MacKenzie, who was our 2009-10 Seminary intern.  Click here and then go to page 19 to read [...]

THANK YOU Elaine…

There really is no way to thank Elaine for her 20+ years of service as our office manager at First UCC.   She has carried us through good times and bad and always has a smile on her face.   A luncheon was held in her honor on Tuesday.  Good food and Good Company. 

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White Christmas — in Latin?

Want to liven up your Christmas caroling this year?  How about singing an old standard (Irving Berlin’s White Christmas), but in LATIN?  Here are the words, compliments of our music director Chris Brunelle (who also teaches classics at St. Olaf).

Te decent nives, nox Christi, similliman praeteritis:

renitet cacumen, in natum numen pubes [...]