Carl Johnson on Clubhouse

Bio

Rev. Carl Johnson

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Rev. Carl Johnson moved to the Twin Cities in fall of 2016. He made connections in the neighborhood by volunteering in Dayton’s Bluff Elementary school and recruiting volunteers to serve Dayton’s Bluff Elementary and Recreation Center in various capacities such as organizing classrooms for teachers, Deep cleaning recreation center before school year cleaning and maintaining a peace garden. He also started a community garden at no cost to the rec center for teaching neighborhood kids how to grow vegetables. Reverend Johnson primary motivation was to end everyday hunger. Rev Johnson has held neighborhood specific block parties and seasonal events to uplift the neighborhood.

Carl has a mission to abolish food insecurity in major cities starting with St.paul believing that race and economic justice are tied to food. He is a pastor in the twin cities and formally appointed committee member in the City of St.Paul of Food and Nutrition. He is on the leadership team of Mission St.Paul a gathering of St.Paul pastors that promote unity in the city of St.Paul.

Carl’s extensive knowledge of black culture and structures of identities in the black community has propelled his work with racial injustice. Carl often engages in circles and individuals cross-culturally to see communities work in unity.

He built partnerships with the school and eventually Indigenious Roots Cultural Art Center. They began to partner when Rev. Johnson organization started their social good enterprise Storehouse Grocers. Storehouse Grocers is specific to Dayton’s Bluff and is placed on 7th Street East. If it is an affordable and accessible grocery store that has fair bargain prices under $5.00. The grocery store has become a neighborhood hub to feed and help families that are entrenched in food insecurity. They give out 1600 meals a month during covid.

Storehouse has been a work of collaboration and cooperation with the neighborhood. Storehouse houses a mural of the hope for black families to be food secure. They carry culturally specific products that make sense to the population of the neighborhood.

Rev. Johnson and his church including the social enterprise to organize the community to hold events that talk about justice in the neighborhood.

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