SERVING CHRIST IN ROCHESTER–Social Concerns Ministry
Memory Loss & Cognitive Decline -
Forum @ First held April 29, 2025
Panel discussion led by:
Dr. David Knopman, Mayo neurologist. Clinic Professor and Associate Director of Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
Dr. Robyn Birkeland, Clinical Psychologist and Study Interventionist with the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
Ms. Jessica Thornton, Program Manager of Aging Services, Family Service of Rochester
Annual Out of the Darkness Walk to Prevent Suicide
The Social Concerns Committee has a purpose similar to the Mission Committee but the focus is closer to home. This committee expresses our Christian care and concern for our Rochester neighbors. We partner with many community support organizations. This includes hands-on volunteering, fund-raising and donations distributed through budget outlays, direct fund appeals, and seasonal drives for clothes and other necessities. In 2011, celebrating FPC’s 150th anniversary, the committee sponsored and helped build a six-bedroom house in Rochester with Habitat for Humanity. In 2014 the committee created a series of public, open-forum discussions called Forum@First. This event brings issues, concerns and experts in the Rochester community together for public discussion. Past topics have ranged from drug courts to immigration to mental health care facilities, to low-income housing needs.
Community Support Organizations-Rochester, MN
