PCYC History
Plymouth Christian Youth Center was founded by students from Luther Seminary and other social justice advocates, with our first home located in an old hotel on Plymouth Avenue in 1954. For more than fifty years, first in the old neighborhood on Plymouth Avenue and now at our campus at Oliver North and West Broadway, PCYC has defined itself as “dedicated to renewal” of kids, families and neighborhoods.
PCYC still is dedicated to the task of renewal – physical and human. The “old neighborhood” of our founding is no longer a neighborhood but a vast freeway and commercial corridor (I 94, Plymouth Avenue and Washington Avenue). The physical center of our “new neighborhood” has moved north and west, and is now in the heart of North Minneapolis and the commercial corridor of West Broadway. The program structures in which interactions take place, hope is created and renewal happens have altered over the years, but the spirit is the same.
