This fall Transform Minnesota is hosting United in Freedom: an experience intended to overcome racial division in the body of Christ. The first of our 3-part experience, led by Dr. Mahmoud El-Kati, taught about America’s deep-rooted issues of economic and educational disparity. By identifying the implications of our history, Transform Minnesota believes that participants will begin to adequately understand our present situation.

In October, Transform Minnesota and the National Association for Evangelicals hosted six evangelical leaders from the Holy Land who provided first-hand reports about the challenges faced by evangelical Christians living in Israel and surrounding territories, and tell us their prayer requests.

In October, we hosted an Evangelical Leaders Forum with Ed Stetzer, looking at the future of Christianity in America. About 110 people joined the discussion about what is really happening in evangelicalism in America and how those in ministry can be encouraged about the state of the country, while they share the love of Jesus.

Transform Minnesota is celebrating 50 years in ministry. Since 1965 tens of thousands of lives have been greatly impacted through Transform Minnesota, which began as the Greater Minnesota Association of Evangelicals (GMAE). The evidence of how God has strengthened our evangelical movement through the past five decades, is what inspires us to look ahead to the future, and continue serving our network with relationships, resources, and representation.

It is our prayer that Catholic and evangelical Christians, together with our elected officials, presidential candidates and fellow citizens, will listen to Pope Francis’s message in support of persons on the move, open our hearts to the immigrants and refugees among us, and welcome them with open arms in the same way that God has received us.