Administrative Assistant Pam Gripman sits at the front desk in the parish office. She will most likely be the first person you see or talk to when you visit or call. Pam worked at United Airlines as a sales representative. In 1993 she was transferred to Minnesota, coming from Arlington Heights, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago. Pam is a parishioner at Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church in the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood of St. Paul.